US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Sept. 8 for "Method and apparatus for neural network-based audio encoding using subband decomposition" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,593, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for neural network-based audio encoding using subband decomposition" was invented by Meng Wang (Shenzhen, China), Shan Yang (Shenzhen, China), Qingbo Huang (Shenzhen, China), Yuyong Kang (Shenzhen, China), Yupeng Shi (Shenzhen, China), Wei Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Shidong Shang (Shenzhen, China) and Dan Su (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio processing method and apparatus, including decomposing an audio signal into a low-frequency subband signal and a high-frequency subband signal, obtaining a low-frequenc...