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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,458,784 |
Data protection system selectively altering an end portion of packets
based on incomplete determination of... Methods and systems for firewall/data protection that filters data packets in real time and without packet buffering are disclosed. A data packet filtering hub,... |
| US-8,458,757 |
Method and system for region-based monitoring of video assets A method and system for monitoring video assets provided by a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) includes an expert test monitoring platform (ETMP)... |
| US-8,458,744 |
Method for reducing channel change times and synchronizing audio/video
content during channel change A digital A/V apparatus provides reduced channel changes times and maintains synchronization between audio and video content during a channel change event.... |
| US-8,458,375 |
Portable electronic device having multifunctional audio port A portable electronic device includes an audio port, a universal serial bus (USB) circuit, an audio circuit, a detecting unit, a switch, and a microcontroller.... |
| US-8,457,975 |
Audio decoder, audio encoder, methods for decoding and encoding an audio
signal and computer program An audio decoder for providing a decoded representation of an audio content on the basis of an encoded representation of the audio content comprises a... |
| US-8,457,969 |
Audio pitch changing device An effect device may be configured such that when an input audio signal switches from a consonant to a vowel and an input level of the switched vowel is greater... |
| US-8,457,956 |
Reconstructing an audio signal by spectral component regeneration and
noise blending An audio signal is conveyed more efficiently by transmitting or recording a baseband of the signal with an estimated spectral envelope and a noise-blending... |
| US-8,457,951 |
Methods and apparatus for performing variable black length watermarking of
media Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed in which auxiliary information is added to or removed from an audio signal. In one example, the... |
| US-8,457,769 |
Interactive audio recording and manipulation system A system for interactive audio recording and manipulation may include a controller having at least one two-axis analog control and plurality of control buttons.... |
| US-8,457,614 |
Wireless multi-unit conference phone A wireless conference phone system has a base station to couple at least one conference unit to a telephone network, such as the public switched telephone... |
| US-8,457,575 |
Obtaining and presenting metadata related to a radio broadcast A system and method for presenting content related to a radio broadcast are provided. The system may include a radio device having a receiver configured to... |
| US-8,457,334 |
Audio apparatus, audio signal transmission method, and audio system An audio apparatus, an audio signal transmission method, and an audio system are provided. The audio signal transmission method includes: wirelessly receiving... |
| US-8,457,330 |
Method and apparatus for boosting an audible signal in a notification
system The present invention is an apparatus and a concomitant method for boosting the audio signal generated by at least one notification appliance in a supervised... |
| US-8,457,328 |
Method, apparatus and computer program product for utilizing spatial
information for audio signal enhancement... An apparatus for utilizing spatial information for audio signal enhancement in a multiple distributed network may include a processor. The processor may be... |
| US-8,457,327 |
Mixer and communication connection setting method therefor Mixer and one or more external devices, related to audio signal processing, are interconnected via a communication network, such as a LAN. For a particular one... |
| US-8,457,326 |
Output circuit for audio codec chip An output circuit for audio codec chip includes a noise eliminating circuit electrically coupled to the audio codec chip for eliminating noise signals. The... |
| US-8,457,322 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and
program According to the present invention, a parameter adjustment section setting, in accordance with a first parameter indicating a variant factor for playback speed... |
| US-8,457,321 |
Adaptive audio output Devices, apparatus, methods, circuits and processors are implemented for control of audio signals. Consistent with one such apparatus, a processor circuit is... |
| US-8,457,319 |
Stereo encoding device, stereo decoding device, and stereo encoding method There is disclosed a stereo encoding device capable of accurately encoding a stereo signal at a low bit rate and suppressing delay in audio communication. The... |
| US-8,457,215 |
Apparatus and method for suppressing noise in receiver A receiver suppresses noise simultaneously using a noise suppressor and an automatic gain controller (AGC). The receiver divides a received signal into an audio... |
| US-8,456,508 |
Audio processing in a multi-participant conference Some embodiments provide an architecture for establishing multi-participant audio conferences over a computer network. This architecture has a central... |
| US-8,454,374 |
Apparatus and method for mounting audio-visual components A bracket or support bar system is for installing one or more audio-visual ("A/V") components or modules and generally overcomes the need for external cables... |
| US-RE44,261 |
Volume control for audio signals A motion picture soundtrack reproduction system has a center front soundtrack channel and a plurality of other soundtrack channels. A volume control adjusts the... |
| US-RE44,259 |
Apparatus and method for processing audio signals recorded on a medium This invention relates to a karaoke CD format and a device for controlling audio signals utilizing the karaoke CD format which provides a user with selective... |
| US-8,452,478 |
Automotive scan tool with enhanced audio, video and voice recognition
functionality A diagnostic tool for a vehicle, includes a signal translator communicating with the vehicle in at least one protocol, an input unit for inputting information,... |
| US-8,452,434 |
Mixing signal processing apparatus and mixing signal processing integrated
circuit User is allowed to designate a desired mode defining the respective numbers of channels and mixing buses, and processing for mixing input signals of the number... |
| US-8,452,433 |
Path setting method and apparatus for audio system, and audio system In a mixing system where a console, engine and I/O devices, each possessing a plurality of supply sources and destinations, are connected to a network, a... |
| US-8,452,431 |
Effective deployment of temporal noise shaping (TNS) filters The MPEG2 Advanced Audio Coder (AAC) standard limits the number of filters used to either one filter for a "short" block or three filters for a "long" block. In... |
| US-8,452,430 |
Method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The apparatus comprises an information receiving unit receiving a downmix signal... |
| US-8,452,427 |
Signal path using general-purpose computer for audio processing and
audio-driven graphics An audio system includes a general-purpose computer in the audio signal path to provide, or to enhance, pre-amplification functions. In one embodiment, in... |
| US-8,452,340 |
User-selectable headset equalizer for voice calls A method of providing a user interface on a mobile device for enabling a user to select acoustic equalizer settings for voice call downlink audio signals, the... |
| US-8,452,328 |
Method and system of sharing a controller for a combined cellular phone
and satellite radio A method (300) and system (100) for sharing a controller for a combined cellular phone and satellite radio includes a cellular phone module (102), a satellite... |
| US-8,452,029 |
Audio system, electronic device and car audio system An audio system including an inverter, a first amplifier, a first mixer, a main speaker, and a first audio output port is provided. The inverter receives a... |
| US-8,452,027 |
Audio conference system An audio conference system including a controller, a plurality of microphones, and an antenna that makes the controller and the microphones communicate via... |
| US-8,452,019 |
Testing and calibration for audio processing system with noise cancelation
based on selected nulls A test system is configured to perform testing and calibration on a sound processing system by generating a test sound signal and measuring the outputs of the... |
| US-8,451,388 |
Audio processing apparatus and audio processing method for processing
according to detected mode An audio processing apparatus includes: a transmission signal input/output unit that inputs or outputs a video signal, an audio signal, and a control signal; a... |
| US-8,451,385 |
Signal transmitter and signal receiver In a signal transmitter and a signal receiver, a multiplexing part multiplexes a video signal and a time-base-compressed audio signal on the basis of a... |
| US-8,451,377 |
Image display device, method of controlling the same and home network
system An image display device and a home network system are provided. The image display device transmits a broadcasting signal including at least one of a video data,... |
| US-8,451,375 |
Lip-sync correcting device and lip-sync correcting method A video signal and an audio signal are transmitted from a source device to a sink device in conformity with respective predetermined interfaces through... |
| US-8,451,086 |
Remote control signaling using audio watermarks A system for using a watermark embedded in an audio signal to remotely control a device. Various devices such as toys, computers, and appliances, equipped with... |
| US-RE44,245 |
Method and apparatus for detecting protection of audio and video signals A method and apparatus for protecting access to audio and/or video data is accomplished when data is received, where the data may be audio data and/or video... |
| US-8,448,253 |
Program licence management technique in an audio signal processing system CPU of a console accepts a full application activation instruction generated via an activation instruction switch. The CPU searches through all of apparatus of... |
| US-8,447,620 |
Multi-resolution switched audio encoding/decoding scheme An audio encoder for encoding an audio signal has a first coding branch, the first coding branch comprising a first converter for converting a signal from a... |
| US-8,447,618 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding residual signal A residual signal decoding method including dividing a signal into a plurality of sub-bands in a frequency domain, wherein the signal is in a residual signal... |
| US-8,447,615 |
System and method for identifying and/or authenticating a source of
received electronic data by digital signal... A system and method for at least one of identifying and authenticating a source of received electronic data, the system comprising: an electronic device... |
| US-8,447,614 |
Method and system to authenticate a user and/or generate cryptographic
data System and process for audio authentication of an individual or speaker including a processor for decomposing an audio signal received at the sensor into... |
| US-8,447,601 |
Method and device for tracking background noise in communication system A method and a device for tracking background noise in a communication system are provided. The method includes: calculating a SNR of a current frame according... |
| US-8,447,597 |
Audio encoding device, audio decoding device, audio encoding method, and
audio decoding method In an encoding process, a CPU transforms an audio signal from the real-time domain to the frequency domain, and transforms the signal into spectra consisting of... |
| US-8,447,591 |
Factorization of overlapping tranforms into two block transforms An audio encoder/decoder uses a combination of an overlap windowing transform and block transform that have reversible implementations to provide a reversible,... |
| US-8,447,329 |
Method for spatially-accurate location of a device using audio-visual
information A system to determine positions of mobile computing devices and provide direction information includes a first mobile computing device configured to broadcast a... |
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