US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Sept. 15 for "Content-aware audio level management" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,913, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Content-aware audio level management" was invented by Shaofan Yang (Beijing), Kai Li (Beijing) and Qianqian Fang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method of performing content-aware audio processing for an audio signal comprising a plurality of audio components of different types. The method includes source separating the audio signal into at least a voice-related audio component and a residual audio component. The method further includes determining a dynamic audio gain based on the voice-related audio component...