US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Illinois on Oct. 14 for "Speech identification and extraction from noise using extended high frequency information" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,429, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Speech identification and extraction from noise using extended high frequency information" was invented by Brian B Monson (Champaign, Ill.) and Rohit M Ananthanarayana (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved systems and methods are provided herein for extracting target speech from audio signals that can contain masking speech or other unwanted noise content. These systems and methods include detection of target speech in an input signal by detecting elevated frequency content in the signal above a threshold fre...