US Patent Issued on April 21 for "Neutralizing distortion in audio data" (Maryland, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,127, issued on April 21.

"Neutralizing distortion in audio data" was invented by Merrill Solomon (Potomac, Md.) and Glenn Bernard (Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and process for pre-distorting TV shows and/or movie media enables digital transmission of the media via MPEG4/AC3 (or AAC) or MPEG4/AC4 codec for broadcast or streaming over the Internet with enhanced speech intelligibility. Processing of the entire media file is performed using pre-distortion techniques and algorithms including NN models (which includes DNN, RNN, CNN, and similar NN models) that are trained on perceptual codec induced noise, quant...