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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128165 | SYSTEMS, METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR DECOMPOSITION OF A MULTICHANNEL MUSIC SIGNAL Decomposition of a multichannel signal using direction-of-arrival estimation, a basis function inventory, and a sparse recovery technique is disclosed.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106746 | Technique for Estimating Particular Audio Component Candidate frequencies per unit segment of an audio signal are identified. First processing section identifies an estimated train that is a time series of candidate frequencies, each selected for a different one of the segments, arranged over a plurality of the unit segm... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120070009 | Microphone Array And Method Of Use A system for capturing high quality sound information from an impact includes a microphone stand and microphone array. The microphone stand is configured so that the microphone array arranged thereupon is focused on a single point so that ambient noise may be reduced.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051550 | SOUND RECORDING DEVICE, SOUND PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND SOUND RECORDING/PLAYBACK DEVICE Provided is a sound recording/playback device (1) that records onto a recording medium (5) sound data captured by a microphone (6), pulls the sound data from the recording medium (5), and plays said sound data. The sound recording/playback de... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051549 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MANIPULATING AN AUDIO SIGNAL COMPRISING A TRANSIENT EVENT An apparatus for manipulating an audio signal comprising a transient event has a transient signal replacer configured to replace a transient signal portion, comprising the transient event of the audio signal, with a replacement signal portion adapted to signal energy ch... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051548 | MICROPHONE ARRAY SUBSET SELECTION FOR ROBUST NOISE REDUCTION A disclosed method selects a plurality of fewer than all of the channels of a multichannel signal, based on information relating to the direction of arrival of at least one frequency component of the multichannel signal.... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120039478 | SOUND RECOGNITION DEVICE AND SOUND RECOGNITION METHOD A sound recognition device includes: a frequency analysis unit which analyzes a frequency signal of a sound signal; a phase curve calculation unit which calculates a phase curve approximating temporal fluctuations of a phase of the frequency signal; an error calculation... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120020484 | Audio Signal Quality Prediction Method and apparatus for predicting the quality of an audio signal after transmission through a communication system (21), the method using a reference signal (11) corresponding to an input signal to the communication system, and a processed signal (12<... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110316967 | FACILITATING COMMUNICATIONS USING A PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND DIRECTED SOUND OUTPUT An exemplary method of facilitating communication includes determining a position of a portable communication device that generates a video output. A sound output control is provided to an audio device that is distinct from the portable communication device for directin... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110293102 | SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, MICROPHONE APPARATUS, SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A sound signal processing apparatus includes a sliding operation detecting section to which a sound signal collected by a microphone is inputted, and which determines start and end of a sliding operation by a determination process using a sliding sound signal component ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110280408 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT OF MEDIA CONSUMPTION IN DIGITAL MEDIA TERMINALS A device, system and method for enabling the measuring of audiences to media consumed through the use of digital media terminals. An example disclosed herein includes a loop-back device that allows the production/extraction of content identification information from med... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110268284 | AUDIO ANALYSIS APPARATUS In an audio analysis apparatus, a component acquirer acquires a component matrix composed of an array of component values, columns of the component matrix corresponding to the sequence of unit periods of an audio signal and rows of the component matrix corresponding to ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110268283 | REVERBERATION SUPPRESSING APPARATUS AND REVERBERATION SUPPRESSING METHOD A reverberation suppressing apparatus, includes: a sound acquiring unit which acquires a sound signal; a reverberation data computing unit which computes reverberation data from the acquired sound signal; a reverberation characteristics estimating unit which estimates r... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110268282 | System and Method for Monitoring Compliance of Sound Levels When Playing Content in Theater Auditoriums The present invention relates to systems and methods for monitoring compliance with sound volumes in auditoriums. The method includes setting a baseline sound measurement for an audio receiver located in an auditorium. The baseline sound measurement is based on a baseli... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110249825 | Sound Field Control Apparatus and Method for Controlling Sound Field A sound field control apparatus includes at least two main microphones; for each main microphone, a set of at least two sub microphones arranged such that the at least two sub microphones are placed in different axis directions about each of the main microphones; a filt... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110249824 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An audio signal processing apparatus includes a tapping detection unit to which an audio signal picked up by a microphone is input and that detects a tapping input operation on the basis of an energy increase/decrease determination process for making a determination as ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110235812 | SOUND INFORMATION DETERMINING APPARATUS AND SOUND INFORMATION DETERMINING METHOD According to one embodiment, a sound information determining apparatus includes: a holding module configured hold a plurality of determining techniques, each of which determines, with respect to a noise of each type that may be present in an input audio signal, whether ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110235811 | MUSIC TRACK EXTRACTION DEVICE AND MUSIC TRACK RECORDING DEVICE Provided is a music track extraction device, including: an audio power calculation section which calculates an audio power from an audio signal; and a judgment section which performs a judgment between a music track portion and a non-music track portion based on a state... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110222695 | AUTOMATIC CORRECTION OF LOUDNESS LEVEL IN AUDIO SIGNALS Systems and method for adapting a gain of an audio signal containing at least two different tracks with different signal level ranges. An example system includes a loudness determination unit for determining a perceived loudness of the audio input signal based on a psyc... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110200199 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ROAD SURFACE STATE here is provided a method for determining a road surface state which can accurately estimate the road surface state on which a vehicle is running at one of finely classified road surface states based on a sound detection signal from a ground contact surface sound detect... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110189968 | AUDIO COMPARISON METHOD AND APPARATUS An audio comparison method and apparatus compares audio streams by measuring the times of volume peaks in the audio streams and identifying correlations between the peaks in the audio streams, subject to possible delay between the streams. The audio comparison allows th... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110175813 | PIEZO-BASED ACOUSTIC AND CAPACITIVE DETECTION One particular implementation conforming to aspects of the present disclosure takes the form of an input device for a computing system. The input device includes a input surface on which one or more input characters are shown and one or more sensors to detect which inpu... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110157475 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETECT COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIA PRESENTATIONS Methods and apparatus to detect commercial advertisements associated with media presentations are disclosed. An example method involves receiving a video frame and detecting a change in box-formatting between the video frame and a subsequent video frame. A transition be... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110158417 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH WARNING FUNCTION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF A communication device with an audio database comprises an audio receiving module, a locator module, an audio identification module and a notification module. The audio receiving module calculates the strength of the at least one signal, the locator module determines wh... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110144801 | Vending Machine In an exemplary embodiment of this invention, a vending machine may include sensors for capturing audio and visual data. A processing unit in the vending machine may analyze this data to calculate an attention score that is indicative of whether attention is being paid ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110125504 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM CONTROLLING SAME A mobile device moves by calculating a distance between a sound source and the mobile device using a sound source direction estimation technique. The mobile device moves by a reference distance in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the mobile device faces... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110103595 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR MEDIA EXPOSURE IN VEHICLES Methods and apparatus to monitor media exposure in vehicles are disclosed. An example implementation includes collecting audience measurement data with a media monitoring device fixed in a vehicle and transmitting the audience measurement data from the media monitoring ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110103596 | STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING BREATH DETECTION PROGRAM STORED THEREIN AND BREATH DETECTION APPARATUS Sound data acquisition means acquires, from a sound input device, sound data representing a sound signal. First evaluation means evaluates the sound signal represented by the sound data, by using a first criterion for detecting whether or not the sound inputted into the... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110103597 | Medic voice data system A medical voice data system includes a hand-held recording device, an electronic information carrier (EIC), and a host station. The hand-held device records medical information from a user that is examining a person in an extreme environment such as battlefield or disas... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110096933 | AUDIO PROCESSING A method of generating a desired shelving filter for audio data, the desired shelving filter having a low-corner frequency U and a high-corner frequency f2, wherein the difference between the gain of the frequency response of the desired shelving filter at f<... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110082690 | SOUND MONITORING SYSTEM AND SPEECH COLLECTION SYSTEM Monitoring accuracy degrades due to a noise in an environment where there are many sound sources other than those to be monitored. Easy initialization is required for an environment where many apparatuses operate. A sound monitoring system includes a microphone array ha... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110075851 | AUTOMATIC LABELING AND CONTROL OF AUDIO ALGORITHMS BY AUDIO RECOGNITION Controlling a multimedia software application using high-level metadata features and symbolic object labels derived from an audio source, wherein a first-pass of low-level signal analysis is performed, followed by a stage of statistical and perceptual processing, follow... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075852 | AUDIO QUALITY ESTIMATION METHOD, AUDIO QUALITY ESTIMATION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM An audio quality estimation apparatus includes an audio packet loss frequency calculation unit (11) which, when at least one audio packet to be assessed exists in singly or continuously generated IP packet losses, calculates an audio packet loss frequency based o... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110069843 | Selective audio/sound aspects Certain aspects relate to providing an at least one audio source to at least one user. Certain aspects relate to selectively modifying an at least one first sound source to be provided to the at least one user, wherein the at least one first sound source is combined wit... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110058680 | Methods and Apparatus for Continuous Noise Exposure Monitoring A method for continuously monitoring noise exposure level of a person via measuring sound level within an ear canal of the person using a sound measurement means linked to a sound level recording device external to the ear canal, wherein the sound measurement means may ... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110037616 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A TRAFFIC ROUTE FOR A MEANS OF TRANSPORT OF A PREDETERMINED KIND The embodiments relate to a method for monitoring a traffic route for a means of transport of a predetermined kind, particularly for an aircraft on a lane at an airport. The method involves noise signals that occur in a section of the traffic route (2) being reco... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038486 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DISABLING AND ENABLING OF AN ACOUSTIC BEAMFORMER A system and method that automatically disables and/or enables an acoustic beamformer is described herein. The system and method automatically generates an output audio signal by applying beamforming to a plurality of audio signals produced by an array of microphones wh... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110033055 | Voice Communication Device, Signal Processing Device and Hearing Protection Device Incorporating Same Signal processing device comprising: a signal analyser (7) for analysing a received signal into the subband domain; a first signal path (10) and a second signal path (11), the first signal path (10) being decoupled from the second signal path... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110025454 | EMERGENCY MACHINE STOPPING METHOD AND SYSTEM A hybrid emergency stop system, the system includes: (a) a mechanically operated circuit, for stopping an operation of a machine when triggered by a user; and (b) a scream activated circuit, for stopping the operation of the machine when detecting a machine operator scr... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110013779 | APPARATUS FOR TESTING AUDIO QUALITY OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE This is directed to a system for testing the quality of the audio output components of an electronic device. In particular, this is directed to measuring and quantifying the software and hardware components of audio output by an electronic device. The electronic device ... | 01/20/2011 |
