US Patent Issued to VOICEAGE on June 3 for "Methods and devices for detecting an attack in a sound signal to be coded and for coding the detected attack" (Czech Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,405, issued on June 3, was assigned to VOICEAGE Corp. (Canada).

"Methods and devices for detecting an attack in a sound signal to be coded and for coding the detected attack" was invented by Vaclav Eksler (Radostin nad Oslavou, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for detecting an attack in a sound signal to be coded wherein the sound signal is processed in successive frames each including a number of sub-frames. The device comprises a first-stage attack detector for detecting the attack in a last sub-frame of a current frame, and a second-stage attack detector for detecting the attack in one of the sub-fr...