US Patent Issued to Synaptics on May 5 for "Neural noise reduction with linear and nonlinear filtering for single-channel audio signals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,403, issued on May 5, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Neural noise reduction with linear and nonlinear filtering for single-channel audio signals" 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: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for audio signal processing. The present implementations more specifically relate to speech enhancement techniques that combine statistical signal processing with neural network inferencing. In some aspects, a speech enhancement system may include a linear filter, a deep neural network (DNN), an...