US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 21 for "Audio coding using combination of machine learning based time-varying filter and linear predictive coding filter" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,860, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Audio coding using combination of machine learning based time-varying filter and linear predictive coding filter" was invented by Duminda Dewasurendra (San Diego), Guillaume Konrad Sautiere (Amsterdam), Zisis Iason Skordilis (San Diego) and Vivek Rajendran (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for coding audio signals. For example, a voice decoder can generate, using a neural network, an excitation signal for at least one sample of an audio signal based on one or more inputs to the neural network, the excitation signal being c...