ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,159, issued on May 26, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).
"Voice signal processing device, voice signal processing method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing voice signal processing program" was invented by Yoshifumi Hirose (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice signal processing device detects a near-end talker included in an image, specifies a direction in which the near-end talker is located, detects a voice arrival direction based on a voice signal collected by a microphone array, estimates whether the near-end talker is uttering, base...