US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on Sept. 8 for "Adaptive noise estimation" (Spanish, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,599, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Adaptive noise estimation" was invented by Davide Scaini (Barcelona, Spain), Chunghsin Yeh (Barcelona, Spain), Giulio Cengarle (Barcelona, Spain) and Mark David de Burgh (Mount Colah, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method, comprises: dividing, using at least one processor, an audio input into speech and non-speech segments; for each frame in each non-speech segment, estimating, using the at least one processor, a time-varying noise spectrum of the non-speech segment; for eac...