US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Sept. 2 for "Real-time low-complexity echo cancellation" (British, Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,682, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Real-time low-complexity echo cancellation" was invented by Zhaofeng Jia (Saratoga, Calif.), Yang Liu (Wetherby, Great Britain) and Qiyong Liu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for acoustic echo cancellation. The system inputs one or more signal representations into an acoustic echo cancellation network comprising one or more network blocks to generate a mask, each network block comprising one or more convolutional blocks, each c...