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US-8,090,126 |
Apparatus and method for generating a speaker signal on the basis of a
randomly occurring audio source A particle generator for generating a speaker signal for a speaker channel in a multi-channel reproduction environment includes a position generator for... |
US-8,090,122 |
Audio mixing using magnitude equalization According to one embodiment, during mixing of an N-channel input signal to generate an M-channel output signal, in at least one frequency sub-band, magnitude... |
US-8,090,120 |
Calculating and adjusting the perceived loudness and/or the perceived
spectral balance of an audio signal The invention relates to the measurement and control of the perceived sound loudness and/or the perceived spectral balance of an audio signal. An audio signal... |
US-8,090,115 |
Transmitting/receiving system, transmitting device, and device including
speaker In a television receiver, based on speaker information of each of one or more devices including speakers which is a memory of the television receiver, a... |
US-8,090,112 |
Self-diagnostic system for monitoring electrical equipment This invention relates to a self-diagnostic audio system including a digital signal processor (DSP) that monitors a plurality of electronic components in an... |
US-8,090,111 |
Signal separator, method for determining output signals on the basis of
microphone signals, and computer program A signal separator, a method and computer product for determining a first output signal describing an audio content of a useful-signal source in a first... |
US-8,090,109 |
Apparatus for processing audio signal and method thereof An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof applied to an audio playback system are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a decoder, an... |
US-8,090,070 |
Synchronizing device for USB real-time audio data transmission The present invention discloses a synchronizing device for real-time USB audio data transmission, comprising: a first adder unit, a start-of-frame countdown... |
US-8,089,992 |
Systems and methods to measure the performance of a de-jitter buffer Systems and methods to measure the performance of a de-jitter buffer are disclosed. In a described example, a method to measure adaptive de-jitter buffer... |
US-8,089,837 |
Optical disk player When an optical disk player is switched on, a controller obtains information of a sampling frequency or sampling frequencies that are supported by an appliance... |
US-8,089,565 |
Digital signal receiver and method for controlling the same A digital signal receiver comprises a signal separating section (11), a clock signal generating section (12), a video data processing section (14), an audio... |
US-8,089,502 |
Adaptive video telephone system A videophone system providing high resolution video transmission between videophones utilizes compressed video signals and audio signals which may be... |
US-8,089,377 |
Method and apparatus of performing sample rate conversion of a
multi-channel audio signal A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing sampling rate conversion of an audio signal from a first sampling rate to any of a plurality of higher... |
US-8,086,465 |
Transform domain transcoding and decoding of audio data using
integer-reversible modulated lapped transforms A "STAC Codec" provides audio transcoding and decoding by processing an encoded audio signal using a backward-adaptive run-length Golomb-Rice (RLGR) decoder to... |
US-8,086,458 |
Audio signal de-identification Techniques are disclosed for automatically de-identifying spoken audio signals. In particular, techniques are disclosed for automatically removing personally... |
US-8,086,452 |
Scalable coding apparatus and scalable coding method A scalable coding apparatus is provided to suppress deterioration of a quality of a coded signal in a normal frame next to a frame compensated for the... |
US-8,086,448 |
Dynamic modification of a high-order perceptual attribute of an audio
signal Processing an audio signal associated with a sound recording made available to be rendered to an end user is disclosed. The audio signal is received. A... |
US-8,086,446 |
Method and apparatus for non-overlapped transforming of an audio signal,
method and apparatus for adaptively... 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... |
US-8,086,356 |
System for monitoring and controlling the consumption of a utility A system for monitoring and controlling the consumption of electrical energy and for warning a consumer of the status of their use including subsystem that... |
US-8,086,287 |
System and method for switching between audio sources A system and method is provided for monitoring a plurality of audio sources and switching from one to another of the audio sources in accordance with a stored... |
US-8,086,284 |
Portable electronic device and portable telephone with electroacoustic
transducer mounting A portable electronic device includes a cover, and a casing engaged with the cover to form a space between the cover and the casing. The portable electronic... |
US-8,086,220 |
Wireless communication device having short-distance wireless
communications In a communication of audio signals between first and second portable-telephone devices through a first portable-telephone base station, a second... |
US-8,086,095 |
Audio and video apparatus and method for controlling the same An audio and video (AV) apparatus includes a player module for playing audio and video files, generating audio and video signals, and an internal display and an... |
US-8,086,094 |
Information recording apparatus and information recording control
apparatus An information recording control apparatus including: a selection section; a video acquiring section to acquire digital video data in a digital broadcast... |
US-8,086,088 |
Digital video recording method in an audio detection mode The present invention is related to a digital video recording method, and in particular, when a recording mode is audio detection, according to an audio signal... |
US-8,085,978 |
Distributed decoding of digitally encoded media signals Digital data is decoded from media signals (e.g., audio, images, video, etc.) using a distributed processing in which a first device receives and pre-processes... |
US-8,085,966 |
Combined headphone set and portable speaker assembly A combined headphone set including a speaker assembly. The headphone set includes a headband having a speaker headphone on opposing ends of the headband. Each... |
US-8,085,962 |
Audio system for portable device An audio system includes an enclosure having a transducer. The transducer creates a vibration in the enclosure in response to being driven by an audio signal... |
US-8,085,953 |
Audio-signal time-axis expansion/compression method and device An audio-signal time-axis expansion/compression method for subjecting an audio signal to time-axis expansion/compression at a time domain includes the steps of:... |
US-8,085,952 |
Combination equalizer and calibrator circuit assembly for audio system A combination equalizer and calibrator circuit assembly includes a calibrator formed of a frequency control circuit, a signal generator, an amplifier circuit... |
US-8,085,947 |
Multi-channel echo compensation system A system reduces echoes in an audio system by de-correlating audio signals. Adaptive filters provide compensation based on the de-correlated signals. A... |
US-8,085,942 |
Audio apparatus and method for use in proximity to a magnetic resonance
imaging system An apparatus and method for presenting high-quality auditory stimuli, receiving patient communication and providing noise cancellation within the environment of... |
US-8,085,941 |
System and method for dynamic sound delivery A dynamic range manipulation system, for use for example in an audio playback system such as a two-way communication system, mobile telephone, MP3 player, and... |
US-8,085,940 |
Rebalancing of audio Rebalancing of an audio signal refers to achieving a balance of perceived loudness, typically of right and left channels, given an unbalanced input. A flexible... |
US-8,085,930 |
Communication system A method for removing an echo component in a first signal received at an audio input device, said method comprising the steps of outputting a second signal from... |
US-8,085,920 |
Synthetic audio placement Apparatus and methods for synthetic audio placement are described herein. In different aspects, synthetic audio placement may include a plurality of inputs,... |
US-8,085,269 |
Representing and editing audio properties Technologies relating to user interfaces for visualization and editing of audio signals. In some implementations, a method is provided that include the actions... |
US-8,085,163 |
Method of and apparatus for controlling a source of light in accordance
with variations in a source of sound A system that varies the brilliance of light bulbs in accordance with modulated audio signals. The audio signals are first compressed and then passed through a... |
US-8,085,147 |
Security system including audio alarm detection A building security arrangement includes a sensor for emitting an audible alarm signal. A security system installed in the building detects the audible alarm... |
US-8,084,681 |
Distortion pedal A combination distortion pedal and amplifier includes a foot pedal controls the distortion and the amplification of audio signals. The level of distortion and... |
US-8,084,679 |
Electronic signal processor An electronic signal processor for processing signals includes a complex first filter, one or more gain stages and a second filter. The first filter is... |
US-8,082,572 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting, receiving, and utilizing
audio/visual signals and other information Information such as audio/visual signals, books, video games, etc. are broadcast via satellite and received in a set top box. When requested by a hand held... |
US-8,082,462 |
Direct synthesis of audio clock from a video clock via phase interpolation
of a dithered pulse An embodiment of the invention relates to a clock signal generator and a related method to produce a clock signal that is a rational but non-integer submultiple... |
US-8,082,158 |
Time slot position coding of multiple frame types Spatial information associated with an audio signal is encoded into a bitstream, which can be transmitted to a decoder or recorded to a storage media. The... |
US-8,082,157 |
Apparatus for encoding and decoding audio signal and method thereof A method and/or apparatus for encoding and/or decoding an audio signal is disclosed, in which a downmix gain is applied to a downmix signal in an encoding... |
US-8,082,156 |
Audio encoding device, audio encoding method, and audio encoding program
for encoding a wide-band audio signal By using a high-range sub-band signal, a correction coefficient corresponding to importance of auditory sense is calculated to correct a noise level and... |
US-8,082,051 |
Audio tuning system An audio system installed in a listening space may include a signal processor and a plurality of loudspeakers. The audio system may be tuned with an automated... |
US-8,082,050 |
Method and apparatus for processing two or more initially decoded audio
signals received or replayed from a... In the MPEG-4 standard ISO/IEC 14496:2001 several audio objects that can be coded with different MPEG-4 format coding types can together form a composed audio... |
US-8,081,927 |
Digital data processing circuit A digital data processing circuit comprising: a setting unit configured to set setting data on an audio signal processing circuit configured to generate an FM... |
US-8,081,864 |
Captured image recording apparatus, captured image recording method,
captured image reproducing apparatus,... An image of an object is picked up by an image processing unit (10) to acquire an image signal of variable frame rate. An audio signal is acquired by an audio... |