US Patent Issued to VOICEAGE on March 3 for "Method and device for multi-channel comfort noise injection in a decoded sound signal" (Czech Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,424, issued on March 3, was assigned to VOICEAGE Corp. (Town Of Mount Royal, Canada).

"Method and device for multi-channel comfort noise injection in a decoded sound signal" was invented by Vladimir Malenovsky (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device are implemented in a multi-channel sound decoder for injecting multi-channel comfort noise in a decoded multi-channel sound signal. Background noise in a decoded mono down-mixed signal is estimated, and comfort noise for each of a plurality of channels of the decoded multi-channel sound signal is calculated in response to the estimated background noise. Th...