US Patent Issued to Google on March 24 for "Streaming vocoder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,600, issued on March 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Streaming vocoder" was invented by Oleg Rybakov (Mountain View, Calif.), Liyang Jiang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Fadi Biadsy (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a current spectrogram frame and reconstructing a phase of the current spectrogram frame by, for each corresponding committed spectrogram frame in a sequence of M number of committed spectrogram frames preceding the current spectrogram frame, obtaining a value of a committed phase of the corresponding committed spectrogram frame and estimating the phase...