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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128160 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOUND CAPTURING AND REPRODUCING WITH MULTI-MICROPHONES Systems, methods, apparatus, and machine-readable media for three-dimensional sound recording and reproduction using a multi-microphone setup are described.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128159 | Decorrelator for Upmixing Systems An improved decorrelator is disclosed that processes an input audio signal in two separate paths. In one path, a banded phase-flip filter is applied to lower frequencies of the input audio signal. In a second path, a frequency-dependent delay is applied to higher freque... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128161 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING STEREOPHONIC OR PSEUDO-STEREOPHONIC AUDIO SIGNALS The proposed apparatus or the proposed method permits the linear variation of the degree of correlation particularly of pseudo-stereophonic audio signals, and overall provides a comprehensive, albeit extremely simple, postprocessing option. This is desirable in telephon... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106744 | AUDITORY DISPLAY APPARATUS AND AUDITORY DISPLAY METHOD An auditory display apparatus is provided that places sounds such that sounds whose fundamental frequencies are close to each other are not adjacent to each other. A sound transmission/reception section receives sound data. A sound analysis section analyzes the sound da... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105603 | DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC 3D SOUND REPRODUCTION AND RELATED METHOD A display system includes a video processor, an audio processor, a screen and a sound reproducing apparatus is provided. The video processor is configured to convert a 2D video signal into a 3D video signal and acquire a 3D computation power loading indicator which is a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106742 | AUDIO CONTENT ENHANCEMENT USING BANDWIDTH EXTENSION TECHNIQUES Methods, devices and computer program products facilitate the generation of high quality audio content. The audio content includes upper harmonics that are associated with a bass band of frequencies in order to enhance the perception of bass audio components that cannot... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106743 | Loudness Modification of Multichannel Audio Signals Scaling, by a desired amount sm, the overall perceived loudness Lm of a multichannel audio signal, wherein perceived loudness is a nonlinear function of signal power P, by scaling the perceived loudness of each individual channel Lc by a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120070006 | EXTRACTION OF A MULTIPLE CHANNEL TIME-DOMAIN OUTPUT SIGNAL FROM A MULTICHANNEL SIGNAL A digital signal processing system and method transforms pairs of channels selected from a multichannel signal into the frequency domain. Vector operations are performed upon the frequency-domain data by which signal components unique to one of the input channels are ro... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070005 | STEREOPHONIC SOUND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM A stereophonic sound production system is provided which outputs audio signals in the form of sound through, for example, speakers to create virtual sound sources at desired locations in a three-dimensional space around a listener to develop a three-dimensional sound fi... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120045065 | SURROUND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE, SURROUND SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD AND SURROUND SIGNAL GENERATING PROGRAM A surround signal generating device generates surround signals of plural channels from input sound signals of two channels, and is preferably applied to an audio device, for example. A setting unit sets a correlation value between channels in the plural channels and/or ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039475 | Active and Passive Directional Acoustic Radiating An three-way audio system that uses directional arrays for radiating mid-frequency acoustic energy and passive directional devices to radiate the high frequencies. the system includes a left channel, a right channel, and a center channel. A crossover network separates t... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039476 | SPEAKER Provided are a speaker and a speaker system. The speaker includes a main unit and a sub unit. The main unit emits a sound in a first direction. The sub unit is formed integrally with the main unit and emits a sound in a second direction different from the first directio... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033818 | DRIVING OF MULTI-CHANNEL SPEAKERS A drive system comprises a splitter (107) which generates a low frequency signal and high frequency signal from an input signal. A first drive circuit (111, 115) is coupled to the splitter (117) and generates a drive signal for an audio driver (1... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120020479 | MULTIMEDIA ACOUSTICS SYSTEM HAVING AUDIO FREQUENCY DIGITAL INTERFACE A multimedia acoustics system having the audio frequency digital interface, which includes at least a USB or IEEE1394 interface, a USB or IEEE1394 outlay sound card, a set of D type or T type audio frequency power amplifier and controlling circuit or MPU chip which matc... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020481 | SOUND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM AND METHOD A sound reproduction apparatus includes: a sound source localization estimating unit (1) that estimates whether or not a sound image is localized using input audio signals in an acoustic space when the input audio signals are reproduced by speakers (FL, FR, SL, S... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020478 | INTERFACE CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME An electronic device includes a processing unit for outputting a right channel audio signal and a left channel audio signal, and an interface circuit for generating a processed right channel audio signal and a processed left channel audio signal accordingly. The interfa... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020480 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED ACOUSTIC IMAGING Methods, systems, and apparatus for using a psychoacoustic-bass-enhanced signal to drive an array of loudspeakers are disclosed.... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014525 | Method and apparatus for simultaneously controlling near sound field and far sound field An apparatus and method for forming a Personal Sound Zone (PSZ) at a location of a listener are provided. An apparatus for simultaneously controlling a near sound field and a far sound field may classify the near sound field and the far sound field based on a distance b... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014524 | Distributed bass Low frequencies in an audio source are extracted and reintroduced into the remaining audio channels and a consequence of one possible setting of the invention is that the low frequencies are shared evenly across the two or more speaker thus avoiding the use of a special... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014527 | SOUND SYSTEM Methods and systems for processing audio data, such as spatial audio data, in which one or more sound characteristics of a given component of a spatial audio signal are modified in dependence on a relationship between a direction characteristic of the given component an... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014526 | Method for Generating a Downward-Compatible Sound Format A method of generating an audio output signal according to a downward compatible sound format, the method including: generating a sum signal by combining a first input channel signal with a second input channel signal; and dynamically correcting the sum signal using sam... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014528 | 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 audio frequency range. Studies have shown that certain frequency ranges are particularly important for human ears... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008789 | 3D SOUND REPRODUCING METHOD AND APPARATUS Provided are a three-dimensional (3D) sound reproducing method and apparatus. The method includes transmitting sound signals through a head related transfer filter (HRTF) corresponding to a first elevation, generating a plurality of sound signals by replicating the filt... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008788 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING PHANTOM BASS In many audio playback systems, frequencies below a given cut off frequency are suppressed either due to speaker constraints or safety constraints. For example, some speakers are only capable of generating signals above a certain frequency. Prolonged low frequency sound... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110317841 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPTIMIZING AUDIO QUALITY A computer-implemented method is disclosed for enhancing quality of an audio source. The method comprises receiving control information; receiving an initial signal from the audio source; and generating a dynamic control signal based on the control information. The cont... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110311059 | METHOD OF NAVIGATING IN A SOUND CONTENT A method of navigating in a sound content wherein at least one key word is stored in association with at least two positions representative of said key word in the sound content, and wherein the method comprises: a step of displaying a representation of the sound conten... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311060 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING UNIFIED SOUND SOURCE Disclosed are a method and a system of separating and extracting unified major sound sources from a mixed musical signal. A unified sound source separation system includes a first sound source separation unit to separate a first sound source having unique time-domain an... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311061 | CHANNEL SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE, ACOUSTIC SIGNAL ENCODING DEVICE, ACOUSTIC SIGNAL DECODING DEVICE, ACOUSTIC SIGNAL ENCODING METHOD, AND ACOUSTIC SIGNAL DECODING METHOD Provided is a channel signal generation device capable of avoiding a decrease in the prediction performance for predicting an L channel signal and an R channel signal from a monaural signal and achieving encoding with high sound quality. In the device, a monaural MDCT c... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311062 | Loudness Modification of Multichannel Audio Signals Scaling, by a desired amount sm, the overall perceived loudness Lm of a multichannel audio signal, wherein perceived loudness is a nonlinear function of signal power P, by scaling the perceived loudness of each individual channel Lc by a... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110299690 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AUDIO DATA A method and apparatus for transmitting audio data is disclosed. In the method of sending audio data, audio data to be sent are divided into basic channel audio data and supplementary audio data for services of a high channel. When a left channel or a right channel is s... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110286602 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED STREAMING AUDIO A system and method for enhancement and management of streaming audio is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system provides a client-side decoder that is compatible with numerous audio formats, so that a user can enjoy relatively high-quality audio from various sources, ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110286601 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD An audio signal processing device includes a processing unit for convoluting head-related transfer functions with audio signals of a plurality of channels, and the processing unit includes a storage unit for storing data of a double-normalized head-related transfer func... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110274279 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED STREAMING AUDIO A system and method for enhancement and management of streaming audio is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system provides a client-side decoder that is compatible with numerous audio formats, so that a user can enjoy relatively high-quality audio from various sources, ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110274278 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING STEREOPHONIC SOUND Method and apparatus reproduce a stereophonic sound. The method includes obtaining sound depth information which denotes a distance between at least one object within a sound signal and a reference position, and providing sound perspective to the sound object output fro... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110261967 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL An apparatus for generating a multi-channel audio signal based on an input audio signal comprises a main signal upmixer, a section selector, a section signal upmixer and a combiner. The main signal upmixer is configured to provide a main multi-channel audio signal based... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261968 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING GAIN IN MULTI-AUDIO CHANNEL SYSTEM, AND VOICE PROCESSING SYSTEM A method and an apparatus for controlling gain in a multi-audio channel system as well as a voice processing system are disclosed. The method includes: judging whether signals on any audio channels are similar or correlated; sorting audio channels of similar or correlat... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255697 | DIGITAL SOUND PROJECTOR The present disclosure provides a digital sound projector including an insulated panel, a number of acoustic cells and a signal processing device. The number of acoustic cells is located on a surface of the insulated panel and spaced apart from each other. Each one of t... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249819 | AUDIO CHANNEL SPATIAL TRANSLATION M audio input channels, each associated with a spatial direction, are translated to N audio output channels, each associated with a spatial direction, wherein M and N are positive whole integers, M is three or more, and N is three or more, by deriving the N audio output... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110243336 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A signal processing apparatus includes: an audio image localization processing unit performing audio image localization processing on a sound signal of each frequency band for each channel of the sound signal based on information used to determine an audio image localiz... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110243334 | AUDIO PROCESSING APPARATUS In an audio processing apparatus of the present invention, one or two audio signals selected from a surround rear left audio signal, a left outer audio signal and a left upper audio signal is (are) amplified to be outputted from a speaker terminal(s) corresponding to th... | 10/06/2011 |
