US Patent Issued to VOICEAGE on May 26 for "Method and device for unified time-domain / frequency domain coding of a sound signal" (Canadian, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,158, issued on May 26, was assigned to VOICEAGE Corp. (Town of Mount Royal, Canada).

"Method and device for unified time-domain / frequency domain coding of a sound signal" was invented by Tommy Vaillancourt (Sherbrooke, Canada) and Vladimir Malenovsky (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unified time-domain/frequency-domain coding method and device for coding an input sound signal comprise a classifier of the input sound signal into one of a plurality of sound signal categories comprising an unclear signal type category showing that the nature of the input sound signal is unclear. One of a plurality of coding sub-mo...