US Patent Issued to NTT on March 24 for "Sound signal decoding method, sound signal decoder, program, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,591, issued on March 24, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Sound signal decoding method, sound signal decoder, program, and recording medium" was invented by Takehiro Moriya (Tokyo), Ryosuke Sugiura (Tokyo) and Yutaka Kamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The stereo decoding unit 220 performs steps S222-1 and S222-2 below (step S222). The stereo decoding unit 220 obtains a signal concatenating a sum signal (a signal configured by addition of sample values of corresponding samples) of the monaural decoded sound signal for the section Y and the additional decoded signal for the section Y and the additional decoded signal for...