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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7667554 | Pre-emphasis adjustment method A pulse train having a specific amplitude is transmitted from a transmitting circuit, and the amplitude at the receiving end is measured by a comparator. A coarse adjustment control unit determines a coarse adjustment value of the pre-emphasis intensity based on the... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7372312 | Pulse width modulation generating circuit A pulse width modulation (PWM) generating circuit includes a first comparator, a first resistor, a second resistor, a third resistor, a fourth resistor, a capacitor, and a diode. The first resistor and the second resistor are connected in series between a voltage in... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372327 | Input structure for a power amplifier and associated methods A method and apparatus provides an input structure for a power amplifier. In one example, the input structure has an input network and a predriver circuit to provide an input signal to the power amplifier. The input network includes a transformer for helping to main... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369668 | Method and system for processing directed sound in an acoustic virtual environment An acoustic virtual environment is processed in an electronic device. The acoustic virtual environment comprises at least one sound source (300). In order to model the manner in which the sound is directed, a direction dependent filtering arrangement (306,... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7340069 | System and method for split automatic gain control A system and method for automatically controlling gain in a signal chain are presented. A first signal is processed to produce a processed signal. A gain is adjustably applied to the processed signal using an automatic gain control (AGC) mechanism. A resulting signa... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7302241 | Wireless receiver without AGC A wireless communication unit (300) incorporates a receiver comprising radio frequency circuitry (210, 220, 230, 240) for receiving a radio frequency signal and converting the radio frequency signal to a low frequency signal. A signal level adjustment circuit receiv... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289626 | Enhancement of sound quality for computer telephony systems Techniques for enhancing the sound quality of computer telephony systems are provided. In general, digital signals including telephony sounds are converted from the time domain to the frequency domain. If noise is detected in the frequency domain conversion of the d... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7274795 | System for and method of audio signal processing for presentation in a high-noise environment The present invention relates to novel systems, methods, and circuits useful for achieving quality sound presentation in high-noise environments. Specifically, the present invention provides systems, methods, and circuits for processing audio signals. The present in... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7266354 | Reducing the peak-to-average power ratio of a communication signal Systems and methods are provided for reducing the peak to average ratio of signals, so that the signals can be amplified more efficiently. An error signal that corresponds to crests of the input signal is generated, and subtracted from the input signal. When a crest... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7233199 | Circuit and method of establishing DC bias levels in an RF power amplifier A method and apparatus is used to provide DC stabilization and noise reduction in a multistage power amplifier. The invention uses various feedback techniques to stabilize DC levels, which helps to reduce noise. The invention also uses other techniques to reduce noi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7225001 | System and method for distributed noise suppression The present invention advantageously provides a manner by which to further suppress noise superimposed upon an information signal without increasing distortion to the signal, e.g., speech. By distributing the noise suppression, the quality of the information signal ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212640 | Variable attack and release system and method Variable attack and release system and method are disclosed for dynamically modifying the various elements of the system, including modifying compander response time to dynamically adjust for changing parameters such as environmental or input signal changes, to main... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7190292 | Input level adjust system and method A method of matching input amplitudes in a system wherein one or more of a plurality of inputs may be selected, with each input capable of having different characteristics, involving selecting an input signal and mapping the input signal to a predetermined signal am... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7164312 | Apparatus and method for pop-and-click suppression with fast turn-on time A circuit for audio amplification includes an amplifier and a first input resistor. The amplifier is arranged to provide an amplifier output signal that is based, in part, on a capacitively-coupled audio input signal. The capacitively-coupled audio input signal is b... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164651 | Wireless computer network including a mobile appliance containing a single chip transceiver A wireless computer data network includes several untethered mobile units that make ad-hoc data connections with an Internet-connected base station using the IEEE-802.11a standard. Each unit includes a radio transceiver fully integrated on a single semiconductor chi... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161427 | Input structure for a power amplifier and associated methods A method and apparatus provides an input structure for a power amplifier. In one example, the input structure has an input network and a predriver circuit to provide an input signal to the power amplifier. The input network includes a transformer for helping to main... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7133478 | Device and method for detecting and suppressing noise A device for detecting and suppressing noise includes a noise detection device that receives and processes an input signal to determine if the input signal contains noise and provides a detected noise signal indicative of whether or not noise is detected in the inpu... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7126412 | Preamplification circuit This preamplification circuit comprises a first circuit section, second circuit section the input signal of which is the output signal of the first circuit section, and third circuit section which is connected with the input section of the first circuit section and ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7110044 | Image detail enhancement system A detail enhancement system uses a detail filter bank including multiple detail filters covering different frequency ranges. An input video signal representing a digital image is processed in the detail filter, wherein detail signals are extracted by the detail filt... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7064605 | Circuit and method of establishing DC bias levels in an RF power amplifier A method and apparatus is used to provide DC stabilization and noise reduction in a multistage power amplifier. The invention uses various feedback techniques to stabilize DC levels, which helps to reduce noise. The invention also uses other techniques to reduce noi... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061855 | Wireless computer network including a mobile appliance containing a single chip transceiver A wireless computer data network includes several untethered mobile units that make ad-hoc data connections with an Internet-connected base station using the IEEE-802.11a standard. Each unit includes a radio transceiver fully integrated on a single semiconductor chi... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054455 | Audio system An audio system includes a circuit (12) for processing an audio signal, which circuit (12) having an input (20) for receiving the audio signal and an output (26) for supplying an output signal. The circuit (12) further includes a h... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050595 | Audio mixing circuit An audio mixing circuit used in an audio mixing console includes an equalizer, a fader cascaded to the equalizer, a distance filter cascaded to the fader, and a pan circuit cascaded to the distance filter. The distance filter is configured to attenuate and increase ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046750 | Adaptive signal weighting system A system for decoding an electrical input signal includes a filter that impresses a variable gain on the portion of input signal to deemphasize a spectral region of the input signal. The variable gain is set as a function of a variable gain control signal. A frequen... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7027981 | System output control method and apparatus Output control system and method includes calculating gain for an input signal, detecting a predetermined condition, and modifying the gain calculation in accordance with one or more kneepoints to provide a varying output signal. A companding ratio is then establish... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7003469 | Audio signal processing apparatus and method thereof A digital audio signal to be replayed is processed in a waveform thereof. A frequency bandwidth of the audio signal is expanded through conversion of a sampling frequency, and then the audio signal is low-pass-filtered with a low-pass cut-off frequency corresponding... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6946850 | Method and apparatus for filtering unwanted noise while amplifying a desired signal A method and an apparatus for detecting signals in an electromagnetically noisy environment by detecting electromagnetic signals comprising a noise signal and a known signal, and compressing the electromagnetic signal to thereby generate a compressed signal. The com... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937912 | Anti-aliased clipping by band-limited modulation with step functions A method for computing the “clippings” of an audio signal in the digital domain to prevent aliasing is disclosed. An offset signal is found by subtracting a threshold from samples of the audio signal. These are multiplied by a pulse after the pulse is lined up i... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6934593 | Process for noise reduction, particularly for audio systems, device and computer program product therefor A device for decoding audio signals subjected to a noise-reduction encoding such as a Dolby-B encoding comprises a plurality of processing blocks (612, 616, 620, 624, 628, 632, 636, 640) for generating, starting from an input signal (610) containing th... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6807280 | Audio signal processing circuit for reducing noise in an audio signal An audio signal processing circuit reduces noise in an incoming audio signal and is particularly useful in telephone communication systems utilizing one or more hands-free microphones. A preferred embodiment of the audio signal processing circuit includes a pre-emph... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6760452 | Multi-channel audio signal limiter with shared clip detection An audio system limits gain in individual audio channels having a shared clip detect signal from a multi-channel power amplifier such that only channels likely to be exceeding the distortion threshold are gain limited. In addition, any arbitrary channels may be grou... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6720999 | CCD imager analog processor systems and methods A processing system for a charge coupled device (CCD) or CMOS imaging system includes a multi-mode, multiple current level, correlated double sample and variable gain (CDS/VGA) circuit for receiving data from a CCD system, subject to horizontal and vertical timing s... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6714093 | Dynamics compressor for an analog signal to be compressed In a dynamics compressor, an analog signal to be compressed is supplied to a first amplifier stage as an input signal, and the output signal thereof is supplied to the next amplifier stage as an input signal, and so on for a number of successive amplifier stages. Ea... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6678382 | Digital attenuator Apparatus and a concommitant method for generating an approximation of a logarithmically attenuated value of a digital signal in predefined increments. Specifically, the apparatus comprises a shift register, a latch and an adder. The shift register select... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6675125 | Statistics generator system and method A method and system for monitoring, maintaining and analyzing statistical performance information in a signal processing system includes collecting data representing a plurality of aspects of the signal processing system, developing a histogram representa... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6621367 | Signal power dynamic range compressing circuit and power amplifier using the same In an input signal power dynamic range compressing circuit, an input signal is distributed by a directional coupler to a linear signal transfer path and a compressing signal generating path, and in the compressing signal generating path a compressing sign... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6597301 | Apparatus and method for level-dependent companding for wireless audio noise reduction Apparatus and method that mitigate the noise incurred on a wireless communications path between an encoder and a decoder of a wireless audio noise reduction system that utilizes frequency modulation (FM). The encoder includes a variable compressor that in... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6552591 | Method and apparatus for processing a wide dynamic range signal Method and apparatus are provided for processing a wide dynamic range analog signal which comprises a compressive nonlinear transfer function responsive to the average amplitude of the signal without feedback along the signal path. The invention employs f... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6542612 | Companding amplifier with sidechannel gain control A companding amplifier wherein compression data is provided to an expansion circuit along with audio data. An analog audio input signal is compressed and converted into digital data by a compression circuit. The compression circuit includes a data framer ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6518852 | Information signal compressor and expander An apparatus and method for compressing and expanding an information signal for use in noise reduction which includes an input terminal to receive the information signal, a first frequency crossover circuit coupled to the input terminal and configured to ... | 02/11/2003 |
