US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on Aug. 4 for "Audio transcoding method and apparatus comprising performing entropy decoding and entropy coding to obtain a second audio stream with a lower bitrate" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,416, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Audio transcoding method and apparatus comprising performing entropy decoding and entropy coding to obtain a second audio stream with a lower bitrate" was invented by Qingbo Huang (Shenzhen, China), Meng Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Wei Xiao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an audio transcoding method, including: (301) performing entropy decoding on a first audio stream with a first bitrate, to obtain an audio feature parameter and an excitation signal of the first audio stream, the excitation signal being a quant...