US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on June 30 for "Realistic room acoustic simulation for videoconferencing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,958, issued on June 30, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Realistic room acoustic simulation for videoconferencing" was invented by Yuhui Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Yifeng Fan (Foster City, Calif.) and Zhaofeng Jia (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for synthetic audio datasets generation for videoconferencing based on realistic room acoustic simulation are provided. For example, a room-independent recording for a source audio signal and a particular type of microphones can be generated and a target room setup for a target room can be obtained. The target room setup specifyi...