US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 3 for "Audio encoding apparatus and method, and audio decoding apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,138, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Audio encoding apparatus and method, and audio decoding apparatus and method" was invented by Woohyun Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yoonjae Son (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunkwon Chung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sunghee Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio signal processing apparatus is configured to: transform a first audio signal includes n channels to generate a first audio data in a frequency domain, generate a frequency feature signal for each channel from the first audio data in the frequency domain, based...