US Patent Issued to NTT on Aug. 4 for "Sound source separation method, sound source separation apparatus, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,419, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Sound source separation method, sound source separation apparatus, and program" was invented by Naoki Makishima (Tokyo) and Ryo Masumura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixed acoustic signal including sound emitted from a plurality of sound sources and sound source video signals representing at least one video of the plurality of sound sources are received as inputs, and at least a separated signal including a signal representing a target sound emitted from one sound source represented by the video is acquired. However, at least the separated signal is acquired using pr...