ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,588, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Speech encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Junbin Liang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to a speech encoding method performed by a computer device the method, including: performing subband decomposition on a target speech signal to obtain a plurality of subband excitation signals; obtaining an auditory perception representational value that corresponds to each subband excitation signal; determining at least one first subband excitation signal a...