US Patent Issued to Synaptics on May 12 for "Speech enhancement system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,712, issued on May 12, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Speech enhancement system" was invented by Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari (Irvine, Calif.) and Gandhi Namani (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of suppressing noise may include receiving a sequence of audio frames representing a multi-channel audio signal. The method may include determining a likelihood of speech in a first audio frame of the sequence of audio frames based on a Gaussian mixture model. Further, the method may include generating a first audio signal based on the likelihood of speech in the first audio frame and a second audio sig...