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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,027,485 |
Multiple channel audio system supporting data channel replacement An audio processing system which allows a surround sound system to utilize the transmission bandwidth efficiently by adaptively transmitting a supplementary... |
| US-8,027,480 |
Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel... |
| US-8,027,477 |
Systems and methods for audio processing Systems and methods for audio signal processing are disclosed, where a discrete number of simple digital filters are generated for particular portions of an... |
| US-8,027,460 |
Automatic provisioning of distinct ring-tones for co-located telephones A controller ensures that ring-tones of a relatively-small pool of distinct ring-tones are individually assigned to telephones of a group of telephones in such... |
| US-8,027,419 |
Method for alignment of analog and digital audio in a hybrid radio
waveform This invention provides a method of detecting time alignment of an analog audio signal and a digital audio signal in a hybrid radio system. The method comprises... |
| US-8,026,984 |
Multimedia television A multimedia television is provided. The multimedia television includes a video playback apparatus, an audio processing device, M front loudspeakers, a rear... |
| US-8,025,535 |
Audio socket connector and switch module A socket connector includes an insulating housing, at least one terminal set and a switch module. The insulating housing defines an inserting hole. The terminal... |
| US-RE42,737 |
Voice-to-remaining audio (VRA) interactive hearing aid and auxiliary
equipment An integrated individual listening device and decoder for receiving an audio signal including a decoder for decoding the audio signal by separating the audio... |
| US-8,024,419 |
Method and system for remote access of personal music In one aspect of the invention, a method is provided for storing audio files. The method includes: (a) receiving electronic files at a central location from a... |
| US-8,024,197 |
Sampling rate conversion apparatus and method thereof A sampling rate conversion apparatus and a method thereof are provided which increase the sampling rate of a discrete audio signal sampled at a predetermined... |
| US-8,024,192 |
Time-warping of decoded audio signal after packet loss A technique is described for use in a decoder configured to decode a series of frames representing an encoded audio signal. The technique is for transitioning... |
| US-8,024,180 |
Method and apparatus for encoding envelopes of harmonic signals and method
and apparatus for decoding envelopes... Provided are a methods and apparatuses for encoding/decoding an audio signal to efficiently encode/decode a harmonic envelope. The method of encoding an audio... |
| US-8,023,918 |
Methods and systems for stereo noise mitigation Methods and systems are disclosed that mitigate stereo noise in FM broadcast receivers by assessing L-R (left-minus-right) and L+R (left-plus-right) levels... |
| US-8,023,835 |
Optical receiver, optical audio apparatus, optical communication apparatus
and optical reception method An optical receiver with a threshold voltage convergence and audio apparatus and communication apparatus using the optical receiver are provided. The optical... |
| US-8,023,773 |
Methods, apparatus and programs for generating and utilizing content
signatures The present invention generally relates to deriving and/or utilizing content signatures (e.g., so-called "fingerprints"). One claim recites a method including:... |
| US-8,023,692 |
Apparatus and methods to process video or audio The presently claimed invention relates generally to video or audio data. One claim recites an apparatus. The apparatus includes an input to receive data... |
| US-8,023,689 |
Robust signature for signal authentication A method, system and computer readable medium for the authenticating of an audio-visual signal, such as digital images or video comprising the generation of a... |
| US-8,023,672 |
Easy-to-assemble one-piece surround speaker structure The present invention discloses an easy-to-assemble one-piece surround speaker structure, wherein a plurality of integrable speaker housings realizes a... |
| US-8,023,668 |
System for predicting the behavior of a transducer A system for compensating and driving a loudspeaker includes an open loop loudspeaker controller that receives and processes an audio input signal and provides... |
| US-8,023,663 |
Music headphones for manual control of ambient sound A headphone and method for allowing manually controlled reception of ambient sound by a user. More particularly, the invention relates to a headphone for... |
| US-8,023,660 |
Apparatus, method and computer program for providing a set of spatial cues
on the basis of a microphone signal... An apparatus for providing a set of spatial cues associated with an upmix audio signal having more than two channels on the basis of a two-channel microphone... |
| US-8,023,659 |
Mixing system, method and program In a situation where a plurality of virtual sound sources are fixedly located, a mixing system allows a listener to increase or decrease the sound volumes of... |
| US-8,023,630 |
Techniques for voice instant messaging on a telephone set Techniques for voice instant messaging (VIM) on a programmable telephone set include receiving configuration data that includes VIM ID data that indicates a... |
| US-8,023,590 |
NICAM audio signal resampler A NICAM audio signal re-sampler may include a non-linear interpolator configured to interpolate in a non-linear manner between sequential digital samples that... |
| US-8,022,966 |
Video, audio and graphics decode, composite and display system A video, audio and graphics system uses multiple transport processors to receive in-band and out-of-band MPEG Transport streams, to perform PID and section... |
| US-8,020,989 |
Wireless interactive headset A wearable wireless audio device includes a support, an electronics circuit, and a speaker. The support includes a first ear stem and an orbital, and is... |
| US-RE42,711 |
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-RE42,708 |
System for avoidance of collision between an aircraft and an obstacle A field unit for warning of a danger of collision between an aircraft and an obstacle, in particular a topographical ground obstacle or an obstacle formed by a... |
| US-8,020,084 |
Synchronization aspects of interactive multimedia presentation management Methods and systems for determining a total elapsed play time of an interactive multimedia presentation having a play duration, a video content component, and... |
| US-8,019,917 |
Digital video/audio capture device and method thereof In audio/video (AV) capture, two video streaming adapters (VSAs) receive an original input video signal and a compressed input video signal respectively to... |
| US-8,019,906 |
Dual mode displayport (DP) and high definition multimedia interface (HDMI)
transmitter configured to transmit... A system and method for dual mode DP and HDMI transmission are provided. Briefly described, one embodiment of a dual mode DP and HDMI transmitter, among others,... |
| US-8,019,616 |
Method and apparatus for encoding audio signal, and method and apparatus
for decoding audio signal Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding of an audio signal using a mixture of a time-frequency method and a parametric method according to the audio... |
| US-8,019,614 |
Energy shaping apparatus and energy shaping method A temporal processing apparatus includes: a splitter splitting an audio signal, included in the sub-band domain, into diffuse signals indicating reverberating... |
| US-8,019,609 |
Sonic/ultrasonic authentication method A method for verifying and identifying users, and for verifying users' identity, by means of an authentication device capable of transmitting, receiving and... |
| US-8,019,604 |
Method and apparatus for uniterm discovery and voice-to-voice search on
mobile device A method, system and communication device for enabling uniterm discovery from audio content and voice-to-voice searching of audio content stored on a device... |
| US-8,019,597 |
Scalable encoding apparatus, scalable decoding apparatus, and methods
thereof A scalable encoding apparatus capable of reducing the bit rates of encoded parameters and also capable of efficiently encoding audio signals in which a... |
| US-8,019,454 |
Audio processing system An audio processing system controls an audio input signal. The audio processing system includes a signal analyzer that detects content information and source... |
| US-8,019,453 |
Decimator and decimating method for multi-channel audio A decimator is used to process a multi-channel audio signal, and includes a memory, a controller and a processing unit. The processing unit is used to decimate... |
| US-8,019,449 |
Systems, methods, and devices for processing audio signals Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method comprising a plurality of activities, comprising: initiating a communications connection between an audio device... |
| US-8,019,431 |
Enhanced signal processing for cochlear implants The restoration of melody perception is a key remaining challenge in cochlear implants. A novel sound coding strategy is proposed that converts an input audio... |
| US-8,019,429 |
Carrier and envelope triggered cochlear stimulation Generation of electrode stimulation signals for an implanted electrode array is described. An acoustic audio signal is processed to generate band pass signals... |
| US-8,019,386 |
Companion microphone system and method A method and system for enhancing speech intelligibility using wireless communication in portable, battery-powered and entirely user-supportable devices. The... |
| US-8,019,350 |
Audio coding using de-correlated signals A multi-channel signal having at least three channels can be reconstructed such, that the reconstructed channels are at least partly de-correlated from each... |
| US-8,019,297 |
Radio receiver, audio system, and method of manufacturing radio receiver A radio receiver includes a frequency converter, an oscillation circuit, an A/D converter, and a digital demodulator. The A/D converter digitally samples the... |
| US-8,019,273 |
Mobile communication terminal, channel information providing module,
method of automatically accessing to DMB,... A mobile communication terminal to automatically access to DMB includes a broadcast receiving unit that receives and demodulates a DMB signal, extracts and... |
| US-8,019,095 |
Loudness modification of multichannel audio signals Scaling, by a desired amount s.sub.m, the overall perceived loudness L.sub.m of a multichannel audio signal, wherein perceived loudness is a nonlinear function... |
| US-8,019,094 |
Audio processing system with function of automatic gain control and method
thereof The present invention relates to an audio processing system with function of automatic gain control and method thereof. The method includes steps of: receiving... |
| US-8,019,089 |
Removal of noise, corresponding to user input devices from an audio signal A noisy audio signal, with user input device noise, is received. Particular frames in the audio signal that are corrupted by user input device noise are... |
| US-8,019,076 |
Portable speakerphone device and subsystem utilizing false doubletalk
detection Disclosed herein are portable teleconferencing products that implement a doubletalk detector in a low frequency range or in a frequency range commensurate with... |
| US-8,019,050 |
Method and apparatus for providing feedback of vocal quality to a user Embodiments of the invention relate to a feedback mechanism that informs a user of a communication device to adjust the volume, pitch, tone or other... |
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