US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 14 for "Channel selection apparatus, channel selection method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,403, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NTT INC. (Tokyo).

"Channel selection apparatus, channel selection method, and program" was invented by Kazunori Kobayashi (Tokyo), Shoichiro Saito (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A channel in which an utterance of a keyword is included is selected from acoustic signals of multiple channels. An addition unit 11 adds all channels of input voice signals of multiple channels to generate a composite voice signal of one channel. A keyword detection unit 12 generates a keyword detection result indicating a result of detecting an utterance of a predetermined keyword from a...