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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190425 | Complex cross-correlation parameters for multi-channel audio An audio encoder encodes a combined channel (e.g., a sum channel) for a group of plural physical audio channels. The encoder determines plural parameters for representing individual physical channels of the group as modified versions of the encoded combined channel.... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190426 | Spectral refinement system An audio enhancement refines a short-time spectrum. The refinement may reduce overlap between audio sub-bands. The sub-bands are transformed into sub-band short-time spectra. A portion of the spectra are time-delayed. The sub-band short-time spectrum and the time-de... | 05/29/2012 |
| RE43099 | Speech coder methods and systems Coding systems that provide a perceptually improved approximation of the short-term characteristics of speech signals compared to typical coding techniques such as linear predictive analysis while maintaining enhanced coding efficiency. The invention advantageously ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095359 | Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal using adaptively switched temporal resolution in the spectral domain Perceptual audio codecs make use of filter banks and MDCT in order to achieve a compact representation of the audio signal, by removing redundancy and irrelevancy from the original audio signal. During quasi-stationary parts of the audio signal a high frequency reso... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086446 | Method and apparatus for non-overlapped transforming of an audio signal, method and apparatus for adaptively encoding audio signal with the transforming, method and apparatus for inverse non-overlapped transforming of an audio signal, and method and apparatus for adaptively decoding audio signal with the inverse transforming A method and apparatus for transforming an audio signal, a method and apparatus for adaptively encoding an audio signal, a method and apparatus for inversely transforming an audio signal, and a method and apparatus for adaptively decoding an audio signal. The method... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8024180 | Method and apparatus for encoding envelopes of harmonic signals and method and apparatus for decoding envelopes of harmonic signals 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 signal includes performing harmonic analysis with respect to an input signal to determine harmonic paramete... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010348 | Adaptive encoding and decoding with forward linear prediction An adaptive encoding method includes splitting an input signal into a low-frequency band signal and a high-frequency band signal; performing forward adaptive linear prediction on the low-frequency band signal and thus filtering the low-frequency band signal; selecti... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7908133 | Gathering research data Methods and systems are provided for gathering research data. Frequency domain data is received or produced, a signature is extracted from the frequency domain data and an ancillary code is read from the frequency domain data. ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7783477 | Highly optimized nonlinear least squares method for sinusoidal sound modelling A method for modelling, i.a. analyzing and/or synthesizing, a windowed signal such as sound or speech signals, by computing the frequencies and complex amplitudes from the signal using a nonlinear least squares method is disclosed. The computations complexity is red... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7756700 | Perceptual harmonic cepstral coefficients as the front-end for speech recognition Pitch estimation and classification into voiced, unvoiced and transitional speech were performed by a spectro-temporal auto-correlation technique. A peak picking formula was then employed. A weighing function was then applied to the power spectrum. The harmonics wei... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7630881 | Bandwidth extension of bandlimited audio signals A system extends a bandwidth of bandlimited audio signals by analyzing bandlimited audio signals at a transmission cycle rate. The analyzer may obtain a bandlimited parameter at a transmission cycle rate. A mapping device or logic in the system obtains a wideband pa... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7577564 | Method and apparatus for detecting illicit activity by classifying whispered speech and normally phonated speech according to the relative energy content of formants and fricatives Method and apparatus for the classification of speech signals. Speech is classified into two broad classes of speech production—whispered speech and normally phonated speech. Speech classified in this manner will yield increased performance of automated speech pro... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7536299 | Correlating and decorrelating transforms for multiple description coding systems Transmitters and receivers in multiple description coding systems use correlating and decorrelating transforms to generate and process multiple descriptions of elements of an input signal. The multiple descriptions include groups of correlating transform coefficient... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7505897 | Generalized Lempel-Ziv compression for multimedia signals The subject matter includes systems, engines, and methods for generalizing a class of Lempel-Ziv algorithms for lossy compression of multimedia. One implementation of the subject matter compresses audio signals. Because music, especially electronically generated mus... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505898 | Method and system for masking speech A simple and efficient method for producing an obfuscated speech signal which may be used to mask a stream of speech, is disclosed. A speech signal representing the speech stream to be masked is obtained. The speech signal is then temporally partitioned into segment... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7433815 | Method and apparatus for voice transcoding between variable rate coders A variable-rate voice transcoder that transcodes a bitstream representing frames of data encoded according to a first compression standard to a bitstream representing frames of data according to a second compression standard; the second compression standard defines ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7418394 | Method and system for operating audio encoders utilizing data from overlapping audio segments The time needed to encode an input audio stream is reduced by dividing the stream into two or more overlapping segments of audio information blocks, applying an encoding process to each segment to generate encoded segments in parallel, and appending the encoded segm... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418396 | Reduced memory implementation technique of filterbank and block switching for real-time audio applications Presented herein is a reduced memory implementation technique of filterbank and block switching for real-time audio applications. Calculation of the pulse code modulated samples from the IMDCT samples and inverse window functions is simplified by exploiting the syme... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7395210 | Progressive to lossless embedded audio coder (PLEAC) with multiple factorization reversible transform A system and method for lossless and/or progressive to lossless data coding (e.g., audio and/or image) is provided. The system and method employ a multiple factorization reversible transform component that provides quantized coefficients based, at least in part, upo... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386445 | Compensation of transient effects in transform coding The present invention provides a method for compensating transient effects in transform coding and decoding of a combined speech and audio in electronic devices by using a transform based time-frequency domain codec. The method can combine, e.g., a CELP (code excite... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383174 | Method for generating and assigning identifying tags to sound files A method of generating and assigning identifying tags to sound files according to standardized criteria that result in substantially unique tags while minimizing differences in sound files that are ideally identical. A number of points in the sound file's unique fre... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369989 | Unified filter bank for audio coding A unified filter bank for use in encoding and decoding MPEG-1 audio data, wherein input audio data is encoded into coded audio data and the coded audio data is subsequently decoded into output audio data. The unified filter bank includes a plurality of filters, with... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363200 | Apparatus and method for isolating noise effects in a signal A matrix includes samples associated with a first signal and samples associated with a second signal. The second signal includes a first portion associated with the first signal and a second portion associated with at least one disturbance, such as white noise or co... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363226 | Psychosomatic diagnosis system A psychosomatic diagnosis system in which evaluation of the psychosomatic condition of a person to be diagnosed is performed automatically and objectively, based on the response by voice with respect to a question and the like asked to the person to be diagnosed. Th... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359749 | Device for analysis of a signal, in particular a physiological signal such as an ECG signal A device for analyzing a physiological signal, such as an electrocardiogram or electrogram, that was previously collected, filtered, sampled and digitized. The device memorizes the digitized signal and analyzes it by decomposing the signal into a plurality of N para... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359857 | Method and system of correcting spectral deformations in the voice, introduced by a communication network A technique for correcting the voice spectral deformations introduced by a communication network. Prior to the operation of equalization of the voice signal of a speaker, the constitution of classes of speakers is communicated, with one voice reference per class. Th... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359854 | Bandwidth extension of acoustic signals A solution for improving the perceived sound quality of a decoded acoustic signal is accomplished by extending the spectrum of a received narrow-band acoustic signal (aNB). A wide-band acoustic signal (AWB) is produced by extracting at least on... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358781 | Automation device with stored profile The invention relates to an automation device, in which a multiplicity of physically distributed functional units communicate with each other by means of a common transmission protocol. The device has a microcontroller (110), which is assigned at least one cl... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356465 | Perfected device and method for the spatialization of sound The invention relates to a computer device comprising a memory 108 for storing audio signals 114, in part pre-recorded, each corresponding to a defined source, by means of spatial position data 116, and a processing module 110 for process... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346498 | Fast paired method of a 1-D cyclic convolution realization Systems and methods are described for a fast paired method of 1-D cyclic convolution. A method includes calculating a paired transform of a signal, grouping components of the paired transform to form a plurality of splitting-signals, shifting the plurality of splitt... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343439 | Removable modules with external I/O flexibility via an integral second-level removable slot The functionality provided to electronic devices by application specific removable modules is enhanced by viewing the removable modules as first-level removable modules and providing them with at least one second-level removable slot for selectively nesting second-l... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343284 | Method and system for speech processing for enhancement and detection A method for discriminating noise from signal in a noise-contaminated signal involves decomposing a frame of samples of the signal into decorrelated components, and using a difference between probability distributions of the noise contributions and the signal contri... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340103 | Adaptive entropy encoding/decoding for screen capture content Adaptive entropy encoding and decoding techniques are described. For example, a screen capture encoder and decoder perform adaptive entropy encoding and decoding of palettized screen capture content in screen capture video. The encoder selects between different entr... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339519 | Methods and apparatus for target radial extent determination using deconvolution Methods and apparatuses for target radial extent determination using deconvolution are presented. One embodiment features a method for determining a radial extent of an target using an active sensor performing noise reduction on a received signal, deconvolving the n... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340308 | Method for electrically stimulating the cochlea A method of stimulating neurons in a patient's cochlea. The method uses a plurality of cochlear electrodes, substantially arranged in a linear array within the cochlea and a relatively distant electrode. Charge is injected through a first one of the cochlear electro... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337107 | Perceptual harmonic cepstral coefficients as the front-end for speech recognition Pitch estimation and classification into voiced, unvoiced and transitional speech were performed by a spectro-temporal auto-correlation technique. A peak picking formula was then employed. A weighting function was then applied to the power spectrum. The harmonics we... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337112 | Digital signal coding and decoding methods and apparatuses and programs therefor At the coder side, bits of samples of each frame of an input digital signal are concatenated every digit common to the samples across each frame to generate equi-order bit sequences, which are output as packets. At the decoding side, the input equi-order sequences a... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333930 | Tonal analysis for perceptual audio coding using a compressed spectral representation The present invention provides an apparatus, method and tangible medium storing instructions for determining tonality of an input audio signal, for selection of corresponding masked thresholds for use in perceptual audio coding. In the various embodiments, the input... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330815 | Method and system for network-based speech recognition Methods and systems for handling speech recognition processing in effectively real-time, via the internet, in order that users do not experience noticeable delays from the start of an exercise until they receive responsive feedback. A user uses a client to access th... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330814 | Wideband speech coding with modulated noise highband excitation system and method A speech encoder/decoder for wideband speech with a partitioning of wideband into lowband and highband, convenient coding of the lowband, and LP excited by noise plus some periodicity for the highband. The embedded lowband may be extracted for a lower bit rate decod... | 02/12/2008 |
