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US-8,615,088 |
Method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal using preset matrix
for controlling gain or panning An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes an audio signal receiving unit receiving the audio... |
US-8,614,734 |
Techniques for detecting a display device Techniques to detect a display device are described. An apparatus may include a video camera operative to receive video information for an image, and a... |
US-8,614,632 |
Method of and apparatus for controlling a source of light in accordance in
a source of sound This device, by its organization and operation, processes sound, usually music. It provides output voltages, for driving lights, which is proportionally... |
US-8,612,239 |
Apparatus and method for coding audio data based on input signal
distribution characteristics of each channel Provided is an audio coding apparatus and method that can selectively apply a operation mode of a coding module for stereo or multi-channel representation... |
US-8,612,238 |
Apparatus and method for encoding/decoding signal An encoding method and apparatus and a decoding method and apparatus are provided. The decoding method includes extracting a three-dimensional (3D) down-mix... |
US-8,612,237 |
Method and apparatus for determining audio spatial quality Techniques for evaluating the audio quality of an audio test signal are disclosed. These techniques provide a quality analysis that takes into account spatial... |
US-8,612,236 |
Method and device for noise suppression in a decoded audio signal In one aspect, a noise suppression process for a decoded signal comprising a first decoded signal portion and a second decoded signal portion is provided. A... |
US-8,612,220 |
Quantization after linear transformation combining the audio signals of a
sound scene, and related coder The invention relates to a method for quantifying components, wherein certain components are each determined based on a plurality of audio signals and can be... |
US-8,612,217 |
Method and system for noise reduction Techniques pertaining to noise reduction are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, noise in an audio signal is effectively reduced and a... |
US-8,612,216 |
Method and arrangements for audio signal encoding To form an audio signal, frequency components of the audio signal which are allotted to a first subband are formed by means of a subband decoder using supplied... |
US-8,612,215 |
Method and apparatus to extract important frequency component of audio
signal and method and apparatus to... A method and apparatus to extract an important frequency component of an audio signal and a method and apparatus to encode and/or decode an audio signal by... |
US-8,612,214 |
Apparatus and a method for generating bandwidth extension output data An apparatus for generating bandwidth extension output data for an audio signal has a noise floor measurer, a signal energy characterizer and a processor. The... |
US-8,612,034 |
Printed circuit board A printed circuit board includes a first signal layer, a first ground layer, a second signal layer, a power layer, a second ground layer, and a third signal... |
US-8,612,033 |
Method for executing menu in mobile terminal and mobile terminal thereof A method for executing a menu in a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal thereof are disclosed, wherein the method includes displaying a first screen on a... |
US-8,611,589 |
Method and apparatus for embedding auxiliary information within original
data This patent application is generally related to watermarking and steganography. One claim recites a method of transmarking an audio or video signal previously... |
US-8,611,583 |
Compact coaxial crossover-free loudspeaker A loudspeaker assembly that converts electrical signal into sound waves in the full spectral range of an audio voltage. The loudspeaker assembly includes: a... |
US-8,611,561 |
First stage audio amplifier with clamping circuit An external audio signal is input to an input terminal which is connected to the first terminal of a first resistor. The first terminal of a second resistor is... |
US-8,611,557 |
Method and apparatus for audio processing A method and apparatus for introducing a time-varying time delay randomly into the individual reproduction channels of a sound recording, two in the case of... |
US-8,611,550 |
Apparatus for determining a converted spatial audio signal An apparatus for determining a converted spatial audio signal, the converted spatial audio signal having an omnidirectional audio component and at least one... |
US-8,611,549 |
Detection circuit for audio device A detection circuit of an electronic device, includes a jack circuit, a first switch, a second switch, and a detection end. The jack circuit includes a type... |
US-8,611,547 |
Apparatus and method for restoring multi-channel audio signal using HE-AAC
decoder and MPEG surround decoder Provided is a method for controlling synchronizing downmix signals and MPEG surround side information signals by controlling a delay according to the kind of... |
US-8,611,546 |
Method and apparatus for remotely switching noise reduction modes in a
radio system A radio configured to dynamically control cancellation of undesired signals in an audio stream. The radio includes a noise cancellation processor configured to... |
US-8,611,545 |
Surround generation apparatus A surround system includes a decoder that decodes an encoded audio data stream, a decorrelation unit that receives and decorrelates stereo signals decoded by... |
US-8,611,520 |
Audio conference platform with dynamic speech detection threshold The present invention comprises a method for audio/video conferencing. In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises using a dynamic threshold value to... |
US-8,608,638 |
Methods and systems for treating tinnitus Methods and systems for treating tinnitus are provided. Some embodiments include a method of providing a primary audio signal having a primary peak portion... |
US-8,608,621 |
Audio pacing device There is provided an audio pacing device including a sensing unit, such as heart rate monitoring unit, to obtain a parameter, such as heart-beat rate (pulse),... |
US-8,607,288 |
Interactive Internet browser based media broadcast A method of providing one-way video transmission and corresponding interactive two-audio communication to remote recipients via a world wide computer network... |
US-8,607,283 |
Systems, methods and computer readable media for instant multi-channel
video content browsing in digital video... Techniques for delivery and presentation/display of audio-visual signals over electronic communications network channels are disclosed herein. In an exemplary... |
US-8,606,586 |
Bandwidth extension encoder for encoding an audio signal using a window
controller A bandwidth extension encoder for encoding an audio signal has a signal analyzer, a core encoder, a parameter calculator, and a window controller. The audio... |
US-8,606,578 |
Method and apparatus for improving memory locality for real-time speech
recognition According to some embodiments, a method and apparatus are provided to buffer N audio frames of a plurality of audio frames associated with an audio signal,... |
US-8,606,573 |
Voice recognition improved accuracy in mobile environments VoIP phones according to the present invention include a microphone, which may be internal or external, and allow the user to communicate unobtrusively, check... |
US-8,606,572 |
Noise cancellation device for communications in high noise environments This invention presents a noise cancellation device for improved personal face-to-face and radio communications in high noise environments. The device comprises... |
US-8,606,571 |
Spatial selectivity noise reduction tradeoff for multi-microphone systems The present technology provides noise reduction of an acoustic signal using a configurable classification threshold which provides a sophisticated level of... |
US-8,606,569 |
Automatic determination of multimedia and voice signals The present invention relates to means and methods of classifying speech and music signals in voice communication systems, devices, telephones, and methods, and... |
US-8,606,560 |
Automatic simultaneous interpertation system An interpretation system that includes an optical or audio acquisition device for acquiring a sentence written or spoke in a source language and an audio... |
US-8,606,385 |
Method for qualitative evaluation of a digital audio signal The invention relates to a method of qualitatively evaluating a digital audio signal. It calculates a quality indicator consisting of a vector associated with... |
US-8,606,249 |
Methods and systems for enhancing audio quality during teleconferencing Provided are systems and methods for improving audio signal quality during teleconferencing. Multiple local devices equipped with microphones may be connected... |
US-8,605,931 |
Combined headphone set and portable speaker assembly A combined headphone set including a speaker assembly. The headphone set includes a headband having a speaker headphone on opposing ends of the headband. Each... |
US-8,605,921 |
Loudspeaker positions select infrastructure signal For operating a multi-loudspeaker configuration which is audio-driven from a multi-audio-channel source system, an appropriate audio channel from the... |
US-8,605,915 |
Class G audio amplifiers and associated methods of operation The present technology is directed to class G audio amplifiers and the associated methods of operation. In one embodiment, a class G audio amplifier includes an... |
US-8,605,914 |
Nonlinear filter for separation of center sounds in stereophonic audio In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a system, a method and a circuit for processing a stereo audio signal. According... |
US-8,605,911 |
Efficient and scalable parametric stereo coding for low bitrate audio
coding applications The present invention provides improvements to prior art audio codecs that generate a stereo-illusion through post-processing of a received mono signal. These... |
US-8,605,910 |
Device and a method for determining a component signal with high accuracy A device for determining a component signal for a WFS system includes a provider for providing WFS parameters, a WFS parameter interpolator, and an audio signal... |
US-8,605,909 |
Method and device for efficient binaural sound spatialization in the
transformed domain The invention concerns a method and a system for sound spatialization of a first set of not less than one of the audio channels encoded on of a number of... |
US-8,605,890 |
Multichannel acoustic echo cancellation A multi-party spatial audio conferencing system is configured to receive far end signals from remote participants. The system comprises a speaker array that... |
US-8,605,638 |
Voice messaging method and mobile terminal supporting voice messaging in
mobile messenger service A voice messaging method and a mobile terminal supporting the voice messaging method in a mobile messenger service are provided. The mobile terminal includes a... |
US-8,605,564 |
Audio mixing method and audio mixing apparatus capable of processing
and/or mixing audio inputs individually An audio mixing method includes: performing an audio processing operation upon a first audio input derived from at least one decoded audio input to generate a... |
US-8,605,216 |
Digital broadcast receiver and method for processing caption thereof A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast... |
US-8,605,053 |
Method and device for detecting user input A method and a device for detecting user input includes receiving a user input at an input arrangement of a user interface. The input arrangement has at least... |
US-8,604,365 |
Ultrasonic digitizer and host A computing system comprises a processor and internal peripheral devices, and a system bus connecting the internal peripheral devices to the processor. One of... |