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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,363,869 |
Hearing aid housing apparatus A hearing aid including an audio-processing device. The audio-processing device may be configured to receive a signal from a microphone and send the signal to a... |
| US-8,363,866 |
Audio menu navigation method A method of operating an audio system having first and second sources includes outputting a first audio signal from the first source on first and second... |
| US-8,363,865 |
Multiple channel sound system using multi-speaker arrays An apparatus that provides for the reproduction of 6.1 surround sound (or other formats of) audio programs using a minimum of two speaker cluster locations is... |
| US-8,363,857 |
Portable electronic device A portable electronic device includes a player, a speaker, a control circuit, a switch circuit, and a current limiter. The player is for outputting analog audio... |
| US-8,363,856 |
Audio amplifier circuit and electronic apparatus including the same An electronic audio amplifier circuit, operable in two modes and a battery powered portable audio apparatus incorporating the circuit; and associated... |
| US-8,363,854 |
Device and method for automatically adjusting gain A device and method are provided for automatically adjusting gain, including a conversion module for converting an audio time-domain signal to an audio... |
| US-8,363,850 |
Audio signal processing method and apparatus for the same An audio signal processing method for processing input audio signals of plural channels includes calculating at least one feature quantity representing a... |
| US-8,363,848 |
Method, computer readable storage medium and system for localizing
acoustic source A system for localizing an acoustic source is provided. This system includes a microphone apparatus, an audio processing apparatus, a photographing apparatus,... |
| US-8,363,847 |
Device and method for simulation of WFS systems and compensation of
sound-influencing properties An aliasing correction in a wave field synthesis system is achieved by ascertaining the aliasing filter property specific for a virtual source. This aliasing... |
| US-8,363,845 |
Speaker array apparatus and signal processing method therefor A speaker array apparatus capable of performing directivity control with ease even when sound emission is performed based on audio signals of different... |
| US-8,363,844 |
Contextual audio switching for a USB controlled audio device Systems and methods for contextual audio switching for a USB controlled audio device coupled to a processor-based host are presented. Two or more USB audio... |
| US-8,363,842 |
Playback method and apparatus, program, and recording medium There is provided a playback method for decode-processing and playing back coded audio data which is transmitted with necessary stereo process information... |
| US-8,363,822 |
Method and apparatus for battery switching during ringing A method for providing a ringing signal includes providing a plurality of batteries coupled to a subscriber line interface circuit operable to generate the... |
| US-8,363,820 |
Headset with whisper mode feature Systems and methods for operating a telecommunications device in whisper mode are presented. The method generally includes adjusting a transmit audio signal... |
| US-8,363,161 |
Systems, methods, and apparatus for synchronization of audio and video
signals Methods of processing an audiovisual signal that has a video portion and an audio portion are described. One example includes detecting a video synchronization... |
| US-8,363,087 |
Television receiver with a TV phone function A videophone system includes a processor which selectively sets a television (TV) broadcast program viewing function mode and videophone function mode in... |
| US-8,362,833 |
Amplifier circuitry, integrated circuit and communication unit Amplifier circuitry comprising a class-D amplifier for amplifying an audio input signal. The amplifier circuitry comprises sigma-delta modulation logic arranged... |
| US-8,362,832 |
Half-bridge three-level PWM amplifier and audio processing apparatus
including the same A half-bridge three-level pulse width modulation (PWM) amplifier includes a prescaling unit, a PWM generator configured to convert the input signal to a... |
| US-8,362,349 |
Touch pad disc jockey controller The present invention pertains to the field of control and manipulation of a digital audio signal by a user manipulable touch sensitive control surface. The... |
| US-8,359,610 |
Audience measurement apparatus, system and method for producing audience
information of a media presentation Audience measurement methods and systems for producing audience information of a media presentation. At least one embodiment includes a moveable apparatus... |
| US-8,359,417 |
Audio/video router A composite input signal having an audio component and a video component is routed from an input to an output by separating a stream of audio data words at an... |
| US-8,359,205 |
Methods and apparatus to perform audio watermarking and watermark
detection and extraction Methods and apparatus to audio watermarking and watermark detection and extracted are described herein. An example method includes receiving a media content... |
| US-8,359,198 |
Pre-processing and speech codec encoding of ring-back audio signals
transmitted over a communication network to... A method of pre-processing an audio signal transmitted to a user terminal via a communication network and an apparatus using the method are provided. The method... |
| US-8,359,195 |
Method and apparatus for processing audio and speech signals A method and device for processing signals representing speech or audio via a plurality of filters that approximate behaviors of the basilar membrane of human... |
| US-8,359,194 |
Device and method for graduated encoding of a multichannel audio signal
based on a principal component analysis A system and a method for the scalable coding of a multi-channel audio signal comprising a principal component analysis (PCA) transformation of at least two... |
| US-8,359,113 |
Method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal A method of processing an audio signal is disclosed. The present invention comprises receiving downmix signal including object signals, transforming the downmix... |
| US-8,359,076 |
Mobile wireless communications device having improved antenna impedance
match and antenna gain from RF energy A mobile wireless communications device and associated method of making same includes a housing and circuit board having a ground plane. Radio frequency (RF)... |
| US-8,359,064 |
Wireless apparatus This invention is directed to a wireless apparatus to carry out transmission and reception by either a digital communication system or an analog communication... |
| US-8,358,980 |
Wireless audio transfer system, wireless microphone, audio transmitting
apparatus, audio receiving apparatus,... Disclosed is a wireless audio transfer system that includes an audio transmitting apparatus including a microphone and a modulating/transmitting unit for... |
| US-8,358,973 |
Communications system An underwater communications system is provided that transmits electromagnetic and/or magnetic signals to a remote receiver. The transmitter includes a data... |
| US-8,358,907 |
Display control apparatus, display control method, and program A display control apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a television broadcast signal containing at least remote broadcast image information, a... |
| US-8,358,791 |
Distributed audio signal processing system having logical channel groups A distributed audio signal processing system having a plurality of linked audio signal processing units is disclosed. Each audio signal processing unit has... |
| US-8,358,600 |
Method of transmitting data in a communication system A method of transmitting a combined audio signal to at least one of a plurality of participants in a communication event comprising; receiving an audio signal... |
| US-8,358,376 |
Method and device for generating and detecting fingerprints for
synchronizing audio and video This invention relates to a device and a method of generating a first and a second fingerprint (102,104) usable for synchronization of at least two signals... |
| US-8,358,375 |
Method and device for accurately and easily measuring a time difference
between video and audio To solve the problems in the prior art, the present invention provides a method for measuring a time difference between digital video signals and digital audio... |
| US-8,358,091 |
Apparatus and method for generating a number of loudspeaker signals for a
loudspeaker array which defines a... An apparatus for generating a number of loudspeaker signals for a loudspeaker array defining a reproduction space includes a prestage configured to generate a... |
| US-8,355,921 |
Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing improved
audio processing An apparatus for performing improved audio processing may include a processor. The processor may be configured to divide respective signals of each channel of a... |
| US-8,355,910 |
Methods and apparatus for audio watermarking a substantially silent media
content presentation Methods and apparatus for audio watermarking a substantially silent media content presentation are disclosed. An example method to audio watermark a media... |
| US-8,355,909 |
Hybrid permanent/reversible dynamic range control system A system for controlling dynamic range of an audio signal comprises an automatic gain control element that receives an input signal having a varying level and... |
| US-8,355,908 |
Audio signal processing device for noise reduction and audio enhancement,
and method for the same In frequency signals obtained by converting input audio signals from time-domain signals to frequency-domain signals, a level control value setting unit 5... |
| US-8,355,801 |
System and method for measuring esophagus proximity A system and method for determining on a continuous, real-time basis the proximity of the esophagus to an endocardial catheter during mapping, ablation or other... |
| US-8,355,708 |
Method for announcing a calling party from a communication device A system and method are disclosed for announcing a calling party from a communication device. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may... |
| US-8,355,674 |
Multi-channel transmitter A radio transmission method and a radio transmitter device for radio transmission of an audio signal from an audio device to a radio receiver wherein an audio... |
| US-8,355,671 |
Method and apparatus for transporting video signal over Bluetooth wireless
interface A wireless wearable video headset device useful for viewing and listening to multimedia content. In one embodiment, the device operates by receiving a digital... |
| US-8,355,515 |
Gaming headset and charging method An audio headset may comprise a case, near field microphone and far field microphone. A speaker, processor, memory, battery, charging interface and cradle... |
| US-8,355,514 |
Audio encoding to convey auxiliary information, and media embodying same Methods of processing audio to convey auxiliary information hidden therein are provided. Various arrangements are disclosed. One alters data representing audio... |
| US-8,355,510 |
Reduced latency low frequency equalization system A frequency equalization system is provided that substantially equalizes the room frequency responses generated by at least one loudspeaker within a listening... |
| US-8,355,509 |
Parametric joint-coding of audio sources The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis,... |
| US-8,355,396 |
Customized network congestion messaging for terminal adapters A terminal adapter such as a residential gateway or an eMTA is configured to receive a set of signals such as a 403 message from network devices operating in a... |
| US-8,355,335 |
Managing the audio-signal loss plan of a telecommunications network A method is disclosed that enables the monitoring, evaluation, and adjustment of a telecommunications network's audio-signal loss plan. The method can be... |
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