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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,290,172 |
Multi-source distributed audio amplification and control system for
structured wiring systems Various embodiments of the invention are directed toward a multi-zone audio distribution, amplification, and control system for use with structured wiring... |
| US-8,290,169 |
Time shifted harmonics generator An electrical signal derived from an audio source is passed through an amplifier and is then divided into two discrete signal paths. The signal traveling along... |
| US-8,290,168 |
Audio broadcast processing method An audio broadcast processing method includes a plurality of steps. One step involves processing an audio broadcast having at least one occurrence of signal... |
| US-8,290,167 |
Method and apparatus for conversion between multi-channel audio formats An input multi-channel representation is converted into a different output multi-channel representation of a spatial audio signal, in that an intermediate... |
| US-8,289,990 |
Low-power reconfigurable hearing instrument A reconfigurable processing unit for a digital hearing instrument includes an IS processor module, a plurality of processing units and a crosspoint switch... |
| US-8,289,157 |
Emergency notification device and system An audio warning monitoring device, system and method including an audio detector, one or more audio screens to determine if monitored sound is an alarm, a... |
| US-8,288,641 |
Portable hand-held music synthesizer and networking method and apparatus The apparatus involves a hand-held housing with a memory for storing coded audio event data, a mechanism for downloading into the memory coded audio event data... |
| US-8,287,314 |
Audio jack connector An audio jack connector includes an insulating housing, signal terminals and a ground terminal. The insulating housing defines an insertion hole extending... |
| US-8,286,875 |
Apparatus and method for commercial transactions using a communication
device An apparatus for commercial transactions using a transaction card via a communication device in audio communication with a remote processor assembly is... |
| US-8,286,211 |
Wireless audio and video signal transmitting and receiving system A wireless audio and video signal transmitting and receiving system includes a transmitting assembly including having a first logic circuit, an input for... |
| US-8,285,558 |
Method and system for reduction of quantization-induced
block-discontinuities and general purpose audio codec Systems and methods are provided for ultra-low latency decompression for a general-purpose audio input signal. In accordance with one implementation, a... |
| US-8,285,556 |
Apparatus and method for encoding/decoding signal An encoding method and apparatus and a decoding method and apparatus are provided. The decoding method includes extracting a three-dimensional (3D) down-mix... |
| US-8,285,555 |
Method, medium, and system scalably encoding/decoding audio/speech A method, medium, and system scalably encoding/decoding audio/speech. The method includes splitting an input signal into a low frequency band signal that is... |
| US-8,285,554 |
Method and system for dynamic aliasing suppression A method of for aliasing suppression in a sub-band speaker-phone system, comprising receiving an analog audio signal from a near end analog audio input... |
| US-8,285,547 |
Audio font output device, font database, and language input front end
processor An audio font output device is disclosed that is able to effectively convert characters or text into an audio signal recognizable by the acoustic sense of human... |
| US-8,285,543 |
Circular frequency translation with noise blending An audio signal is conveyed more efficiently by transmitting or recording a baseband of the signal with an estimated spectral envelope and a noise-blending... |
| US-8,285,406 |
Audio processor An audio processor is provided which includes a digital signal processor for processing a digital audio data in an inputted digital audio file and a digital... |
| US-8,285,385 |
High accuracy tonotopic and periodic coding with enhanced harmonic
resolution Generating electrode stimulation signals for an implanted electrode array is described. An acoustic audio signal is processed to generate band pass signals... |
| US-8,285,383 |
Directional sound processing in a cochlear implant A cochlear implant implementing a directional sound processing system is provided. Specifically, the cochlear implants implementing the present invention... |
| US-8,285,343 |
Wireless headset having improved RF immunity to RF electromagnetic
interference produced from a mobile wireless... A wireless headset has improved immunity to RF electromagnetic interference produced from wireless communications devices. A headset body is adapted to be worn... |
| US-8,285,208 |
Systems and methods for noise cancellation and power management in a
wireless headset This includes systems and methods for noise cancellation and power management in a wireless headset. The wireless headset can perform noise cancellation by... |
| US-8,284,975 |
Method of outputting audio signal and mobile communication terminal using
the method A mobile communication terminal includes a receiver converting an audio signal outputted from the mobile communication terminal into an audible sound; a coupler... |
| US-8,284,971 |
Logarithmic compression systems and methods for hearing amplification Embodiments of the invention provide an amplifier including a gain control circuit having a gain measurement circuit as part of a feedback loop. The gain... |
| US-8,284,963 |
Method and apparatus for diminishing mismatch effects between switched
signals A circuit for diminishing mismatch effects between at least two switched signals includes at least three processing circuits configured to receive at least two... |
| US-8,284,962 |
Electronic bass instrument tube preamplifier An Electronic bass register musical instrument tube preamplifier includes an in line signal pre-amplification device in a Class A audio amplifier configuration.... |
| US-8,284,960 |
User adjustable volume control that accommodates hearing A method for processing audio signals optimizes the listening experience for hearing impaired listeners, as well as non-hearing impaired listeners, without... |
| US-8,284,959 |
Method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal An apparatus for controlling a volume of an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which a volume of an input signal can be controlled by using a... |
| US-8,284,958 |
Increased dynamic range microphone Disclosed herein are apparatus, method, and computer program product whereby a device receives an acoustic signal, where the acoustic signal has a variable... |
| US-8,284,957 |
Method and apparatus for stereo enhancement of an audio system A processing apparatus which is suitable for signal communication with a system having at least one of an input module and an output module. The processing... |
| US-8,284,956 |
Method and system for enhancing bass effect in audio signals The quality of music output from audio systems is improved by simulating the effect of low frequency signals in the human ear. This thus allows listeners to... |
| US-8,284,955 |
System and method for digital signal processing The present invention provides methods and systems for digitally processing audio signals. Some embodiments receive an audio signal and converting it to a... |
| US-8,284,954 |
BTSC encoder The disclosed BTSC encoder includes a left high pass filter means for receiving a digital left channel audio signal and for digitally high pass filtering the... |
| US-8,284,951 |
Enhanced audio recording for smart pen computing systems In a pen-based computing system, a pair of microphones captures audio concurrently with a smart pen device capturing handwriting gestures. The audio captured by... |
| US-8,284,950 |
Vehicle remote control interface for controlling multiple electronic
devices An interface device for interconnecting fixed controls of a vehicle to electronic devices. The interface device is capable of receiving control signals from... |
| US-8,284,946 |
Binaural decoder to output spatial stereo sound and a decoding method
thereof A binaural decoder for an MPEG surround stream, which decodes an MPEG surround stream into a stereo 3D signal, and a decoding method thereof. The method... |
| US-8,284,713 |
Wireless audio systems and related methods Systems and methods are provided to facilitate the distribution of audio signals over wireless networks. In one implementation, an audio system includes a head... |
| US-8,284,323 |
Video audio processing device and standby and return method thereof In a video audio processing device, a signal processing block (11, 12) includes an instruction memory (111, 121) and performs signal processing in accordance... |
| US-8,284,310 |
Delay matching in audio/video systems An audio/video system comprises an audio signal processing path having an audio path delay and a video signal processing path having a video path delay. The... |
| US-8,284,086 |
Device and method for the transmission and reception of high fidelity
audio using a single wire An audio device (200) includes a first and second ICs (210) and (250) and a substrate (205). The first IC includes a sigma-delta, A/D converter (218) operable... |
| US-8,284,042 |
System and method of vehicle passenger detection for rear seating rows A system for detecting a passenger in a rear seating row of a vehicle and alerting an occupant of a vehicle when a passenger safety device in a rear row is not... |
| US-8,283,547 |
Scheme for providing audio effects for a musical instrument and for
controlling images with same A method for use with a musical instrument includes receiving a signal representative of a sound produced by the musical instrument, receiving a selection of an... |
| US-8,281,998 |
Apparatus and method for commercial transactions using a communication
device An apparatus for effecting commercial transactions with a server using a transaction card via a communication device is provided. The apparatus includes a... |
| US-8,281,137 |
Method and apparatus for determining whether or not a reference pattern is
present in a received and possibly... Many watermarking systems make use of correlation for calculating a detection metric, which means that several reference patterns are generated at encoder side... |
| US-8,280,744 |
Audio decoder, audio object encoder, method for decoding a
multi-audio-object signal, multi-audio-object... An audio decoder for decoding a multi-audio-object signal having an audio signal of a first type and an audio signal of a second type encoded therein is... |
| US-8,280,743 |
Channel reconfiguration with side information During production, at least one audio signal is processed in order to derive instructions for channel reconfiguring it. The at least one audio signal and the... |
| US-8,280,730 |
Method and apparatus of increasing speech intelligibility in noisy
environments A method (400, 600, 700) and apparatus (220) for enhancing the intelligibility of speech emitted into a noisy environment. After filtering (408) ambient noise... |
| US-8,280,540 |
Multimedia playing system and time-counting method applied thereto A multimedia playing system includes an audio outputting device and a multimedia player. The audio outputting device includes a connecting plug and a distance... |
| US-8,280,538 |
System, medium, and method of encoding/decoding multi-channel audio
signals An system, method, and method of encoding/decoding a multi-channel audio signal, including a decoding level generation unit producing decoding-level information... |
| US-8,280,449 |
Audio usage detection An audio handling device comprising: a source of audio data; a microphone; a loudspeaker; a transmitter for transmitting audio data; modification means for... |
| US-8,280,340 |
Clock generation for integrated radio frequency receivers Systems of clock generation for integrated radio frequency receiver. In an integrated radio frequency receiver, a mixer is often used to down convert the... |
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