US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 12 for "System and method of determining auditory context information" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,723, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"System and method of determining auditory context information" was invented by Te-Won Lee (San Diego), Khaled Helmi El-Maleh (San Marcos, Calif.), Heejong Yoo (San Diego) and Jongwon Shin (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a memory configured to store a captured audio input signal and one or more processors configured to process the captured audio input signal to determine auditory context information within the captured audio input signal. The one or more processors are configured to determine an audio quality enhancement level to b...