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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,255,211 |
Temporal envelope shaping for spatial audio coding using frequency domain
wiener filtering Certain types of parametric spatial coding encoders use interchannel amplitude differences, interchannel time differences, and interchannel coherence or... |
| US-8,255,210 |
Audio/music decoding device and method utilizing a frame erasure
concealment utilizing multiple encoded... An audio/music decoding device capable of improving quality of a decoded signal generated by conceal processing of a frame erase using a scalable encoding... |
| US-8,255,208 |
Codebook segment merging Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for merging entropy codebook application ranges within an audio signal. According to one... |
| US-8,255,178 |
Method for detecting statuses of components of semiconductor equipment and
associated apparatus An apparatus for detecting an operational status of a semiconductor equipment includes an audio frequency signal receiving unit and an analysis and... |
| US-8,254,759 |
Broadcasting signal processing apparatus and method thereof for recording
and reproducing with respect to hard... A broadcast signal processing apparatus that is capable of recording and reproducing an externally received broadcast signal with respect to a hard disc drive,... |
| US-8,254,756 |
Method and apparatus for reducing and restoring the effectiveness of a
commercial skip system A method and apparatus is disclosed which reduces or removes the effectiveness of commercial skip systems such as presently found in VCRs, PVRs, etc. which are... |
| US-8,254,623 |
Image display device An image display device includes a housing including a front cabinet and a back cabinet. Inside the housing, arranged are a flat display panel, a speaker which... |
| US-8,254,600 |
Method and an apparatus for decoding an audio signal The present invention relates to an apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof. The present invention includes receiving a downmix signal... |
| US-8,254,598 |
Programmable integrated microphone interface circuit An integrated circuit for providing programmable microphone interface includes an input terminal for receiving an input signal and an output terminal for... |
| US-8,254,597 |
Audio signal processing circuit Plural variable gain amplifiers amplify audio signals of plural channels for each channel. An interface receives, from outside, plural gain control data... |
| US-8,254,592 |
Electronic device and external equipment with configurable audio path
circuitry Electronic devices and accessories such as headsets are provided. An accessory may include speakers and active noise cancellation circuitry. Microphones may be... |
| US-8,254,590 |
System and method for intelligibility enhancement of audio information A method for processing an input signal to create an enhanced output signal includes obtaining an envelope of the input signal, determining a logarithm signal... |
| US-8,254,572 |
Secure provisioning of a portable device using a representation of a key A portable device initially accesses a secure server and requests a certificate. The secure server generates a random key and encodes the generated key to... |
| US-8,254,560 |
Oscillation-echo preventing circuit and microphone/speaker unit An oscillation-echo preventing circuit has a microphone/speaker unit and a voltage-canceling circuit for canceling voltages of audio receive signals. The... |
| US-8,253,865 |
Audio/video entertainment system and method The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for programming and/or charging one or more audio/video devices such that the... |
| US-8,253,864 |
Method of viewing a data broadcast and a receiver for implementing the
same A device for receiving broadcast signal is disclosed. More specifically, the device includes an user interface (132) configured to provide at least one command... |
| US-8,253,857 |
Broadcasting receiving apparatus The portable player is connected to a first connector, and the PC is connected to a second connector. A first connection detecting unit detects whether the... |
| US-8,253,772 |
Method, apparatus and system for incorporating voice or video
communication into a television or compatible... Voice or video communication is incorporated into a television or compatible audio capable visual display by routing a television signal through a communication... |
| US-8,253,750 |
Digital media processor Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide highly integrated digital media processors for digital consumer electronics applications. These digital media... |
| US-8,253,593 |
Traffic light system and method for using the same A traffic light system includes a traffic light unit and at least one reminding unit. The traffic light unit includes a plurality of traffic lights, a detecting... |
| US-8,253,006 |
Method and apparatus to automatically match keys between music being
reproduced and music being performed and... A method to automatically match keys between music being reproduced and music being performed includes detecting a key from an audio signal being reproduced... |
| US-RE43,610 |
Digital FM radio system The present invention is for a high quality digital FM radio system that utilizes the subcarrier band to generate digital audio signals. The hybrid FM radio... |
| US-8,250,620 |
System and method for sharing information between a concierge and guest A novel mechanism is disclosed by which a sender can direct information such as an audiovisual signal to a particular recipient's audiovisual display device,... |
| US-8,250,595 |
Utilizing an audio signal to monitor a program with a technique that is
operable even during a mute mode An apparatus for monitoring a program signal received from a broadcast source that is to be performed by reproduction equipment, wherein an audio portion of the... |
| US-8,249,882 |
Decoding apparatus and decoding method A decoding apparatus that decodes a first encoded data that is encoded into a first time range from a low-frequency component of an audio signal, and a second... |
| US-8,249,872 |
Skipping radio/television program segments Techniques for notifying at least one entity of an occurrence of an event in an audio signal are provided. At least one preference is obtained from the at least... |
| US-8,249,870 |
Semi-automatic speech transcription A semi-automatic speech transcription system of the invention leverages the complementary capabilities of human and machine, building a system which combines... |
| US-8,249,868 |
Speech and noise models for speech recognition An audio signal generated by a device based on audio input from a user may be received. The audio signal may include at least a user audio portion that... |
| US-8,249,865 |
Adaptive data transmission for a digital in-band modem operating over a
voice channel In one example, a mobile device encodes a digital bitstream using a particular set of modulation parameters to generate an audio signal that has different audio... |
| US-8,249,863 |
Method and apparatus for estimating spectral information of audio signal An apparatus and method for estimating audio signal spectrum information. The method including the steps of performing a morphological operation on a received... |
| US-8,249,862 |
Audio processing apparatuses An audio processing apparatus is provided. A beamformer receives input signals and processes the input signals to generate a first processed signal. The input... |
| US-8,249,861 |
High frequency compression integration A speech enhancement system that improves the intelligibility and the perceived quality of processed speech includes a frequency transformer and a spectral... |
| US-8,249,730 |
Systems and methods for shadowing an HDA codec Systems and methods for "shadowing" a target codec to provide additional features that are not available in the target codec. In one embodiment, an audio... |
| US-8,249,674 |
Portable electronic device An exemplary portable electronic device includes a main body, a cover member movably connected with the main body, a sensing unit, a signal processing unit, an... |
| US-8,249,672 |
Transmission plug and related complex earphone and radio player A transmission plug for a complex earphone is disclosed. The complex earphone is capable of receiving a broadcast signal and sending out an audio signal. The... |
| US-8,249,671 |
Mobile wireless communications device having improved RF immunity of audio
transducers to electromagnetic... A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing and having radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a processor... |
| US-8,249,559 |
Promotion operable recognition system Embodiments describe a recognition system that works in conjunction with a subscriber's cellular phone and the network serving the subscriber. According to an... |
| US-8,249,284 |
Hearing system and method for deriving information on an acoustic scene The invention relates to a method for operating a hearing system comprising an input unit, an output unit and a transmission unit operationally interconnecting... |
| US-8,249,278 |
Audio signal processing system In an audio signal processing system, a plurality of audio signal processing apparatuses are previously linked to form a zone, and logically defined as devices... |
| US-8,249,275 |
Modulated gain audio control and zipper noise suppression techniques using
modulated gain A modulated gain audio control and zipper noise suppression techniques provide reduction in audible artifacts caused by discrete-valued gain changes. The gain... |
| US-8,249,274 |
Audio amplifier with timing circuit to power down bias control and
amplifying circuits in sequence An audio amplifier includes a timing control circuit, an amplifying circuit, and a bias control circuit. The timing control circuit generates a first power down... |
| US-8,249,272 |
Audio playback apparatus An audio playback apparatus is disclosed. The audio playback apparatus processes an audio signal and provides at least one output signal to at least one speaker... |
| US-8,249,265 |
Method and apparatus for achieving active noise reduction A system and method for actively changing the sound perceived by listeners in an audio environment. A single transducer is used as both a sensing microphone and... |
| US-8,249,263 |
Method and apparatus for providing audio motion feedback in a simulated
three-dimensional environment Embodiments of the invention provide method, system, and computer readable storage medium for providing an audio motion feedback to a user of a simulated... |
| US-8,249,118 |
Method and apparatus for generating information signal to be recorded A compressively-encoding-resultant video signal resulting from compressively encoding a video signal, a first compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal... |
| US-8,248,452 |
Communication method and network display apparatus using the same A network display apparatus, which is connected to a network and has a thin client function, is used as a monitor of a host device. If audio and video data is... |
| US-8,248,280 |
Successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC)
having optimized filter A system such as a mechanically tuned radio can have a signal path to receive and process an incoming radio frequency (RF) signal and to provide the processed... |
| US-8,248,226 |
System and method for monitoring security at a premises Digital audio sensors receive and digitize audio signals and transmit the digitized signals to a central monitoring station for monitoring by an operator. The... |
| US-8,245,258 |
Method for providing video telephony using broadcast receiving apparatus A method for providing video telephony is presented. By the method, a telephone directory of a broadcast receiving apparatus can be updated by receiving a... |
| US-8,245,252 |
System, method, and computer program product for selective replacement of
objectionable program content with... A system, method, and computer program product is provided for the selective replacement of objectionable content in a program with less-objectionable material.... |
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