US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 24 for "Deep learning for joint acoustic echo and acoustic howling suppression in hybrid meetings" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,183, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Deep learning for joint acoustic echo and acoustic howling suppression in hybrid meetings" was invented by Hao Zhang (Columbus, Ohio), Meng Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dong Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, and non-transitory storage medium for training a deep neural-network model jointly for acoustic echo suppression and acoustic howling suppression are provided. The method may include generating a teacher speech signal for training the deep neural-network model based on a input speech from a speech system and at le...