US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus for encoding three-dimensional audio signal, encoder, and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,586, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for encoding three-dimensional audio signal, encoder, and system" was invented by Yuan Gao (Beijing), Shuai Liu (Beijing), Bingyin Xia (Beijing), Bin Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhe Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding a three-dimensional audio signal is provided. The method includes: An encoder obtains a current frame of a three-dimensional audio signal; obtains coding efficiency of an initial virtual speaker for the current frame based on the current frame of the three-dimensional audio signal;...