US Patent Issued to NTT on April 21 for "Scene selection method, scene selection apparatus and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,133, issued on April 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Scene selection method, scene selection apparatus and program" was invented by Masahiro Yasuda (Tokyo), Yasunori Ohishi (Tokyo) and Shoichiro Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technique for accurately estimating a scene even when the number of input signals increases. A scene estimation method includes: when S is the number of scenes and M is the number of input acoustic signals, an acoustic signal encoding step of generating, by a scene estimation device, an integrated acoustic feature amount from an m-th input acoustic signal (m=1.., M) and a posit...