US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 2 for "Deep audio zooming: beamwidth-controllable neural beamformer" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,721, issued on June 2, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Deep audio zooming: beamwidth-controllable neural beamformer" was invented by Meng Yu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Dong Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to receive multiple audio signals obtained from ones of a plurality of microphones of a microphone array, implement an audio zooming based on the audio signals by selectively focusing and enhancing first ones of the audio signals and by attenuating other ones of the audio signals, and control an outp...