ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,422, issued on March 3, was assigned to AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Method and apparatus for encoding a multi-channel audio, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Xuejing Sun (L.A., Calif.) and Mingxin Hui (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are method and apparatus for encoding a multi-channel audio, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining encoding units of a multi-channel audio according to an audio type of the multi-channel audio; acquiring importance evaluation indexes of the encoding units of the multi-channel audio; determining en...