US Patent Issued to HTC on March 3 for "Encoding method and decoding method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,425, issued on March 3, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Encoding method and decoding method" was invented by Kuan Nien Pan (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), I Yun Su (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Yan-Min Kuo (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method for embedding a watermark into an audio is provided. A text watermark and an original audio are obtained. The text watermark is converted to an image watermark. The original audio is converted from a time domain to a frequency domain to generate a pre-process audio. The image watermark is embedded into the pre-processed audio to generate an encoded audi...