US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 26 for "Audio encoding method and apparatus, and audio decoding method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,156, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Audio encoding method and apparatus, and audio decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Shuai Liu (Beijing), Yuan Gao (Beijing), Bin Wang (Shenzhen, China), Bingyin Xia (Beijing) and Zhe Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio encoding method and apparatus and an audio decoding method and apparatus are disclosed. During encoding of an audio channel signal of a current frame, whether a first target virtual loudspeaker and a second target virtual loudspeaker corresponding to an audio channel signal of a previous frame of the curr...