US Patent Issued to NTT on Feb. 3 for "Learning apparatus, conversion apparatus, learning method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,128, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Learning apparatus, conversion apparatus, learning method and program" was invented by Daisuke Niizumi (Musashino, Japan), Kunio Kashino (Musashino, Japan), Yasunori Oishi (Musashino, Japan), Daiki Takeuchi (Musashino, Japan) and Noboru Harada (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present invention provides a learning device including: a neural network that converts an acoustic time series that is a time series representing a sound into feature data expressed in a predetermined format required by a downstream task; and an update unit that updates the...