Patents by Inventor Roger Wallace Dressler

Roger Wallace Dressler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9721575
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods are described for providing backwards compatibility for legacy devices that are unable to natively render non-channel based audio objects. These systems and methods can also be beneficially used to produce a reduced set of audio objects for compatible object-based decoders with low computing resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: DTS LLC
    Inventors: Roger Wallace Dressler, Pierre-Anthony Stivell Lemieux, Alan D. Kraemer
  • Publication number: 20160104492
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods are described for providing backwards compatibility for legacy devices that are unable to natively render non-channel based audio objects. These systems and methods can also be beneficially used to produce a reduced set of audio objects for compatible object-based decoders with low computing resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Roger Wallace Dressler, Pierre-Anthony Stivell Lemieux, Alan D. Kraemer
  • Patent number: 9197979
    Abstract: Methods and systems of reproducing object-based audio are disclosed. In some embodiments, vector base amplitude panning (VBAP) is used for playing back an object's audio. Using the positioning of sound reproduction devices and object's location information, rendering can determine which sound reproduction devices are used for playing back the object's audio. For example, a triangle in which the object is positioned at a given time can be identified. The triangle can have sound reproduction devices as vertices, and the object's audio can be rendered on the sound reproduction devices corresponding to the vertices of the triangle. In some embodiments, ambiguities associated with VBAP-based rendering are identified and resolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: DTS LLC
    Inventors: Pierre-Anthony Stivell Lemieux, Roger Wallace Dressler, Jean-Marc Jot
  • Patent number: 9165558
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods are described for providing backwards compatibility for legacy devices that are unable to natively render non-channel based audio objects. These systems and methods can also be beneficially used to produce a reduced set of audio objects for compatible object-based decoders with low computing resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: DTS LLC
    Inventors: Roger Wallace Dressler, Pierre-Anthony Stivell Lemieux, Alan D. Kraemer
  • Patent number: 9026450
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods are described for providing backwards compatibility for legacy devices that are unable to natively render non-channel based audio objects. These systems and methods can also be beneficially used to produce a reduced set of audio objects for compatible object-based decoders with low computing resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: DTS LLC
    Inventors: Roger Wallace Dressler, Pierre-Anthony Stivell Lemieux, Alan D. Kraemer
  • Publication number: 20150002642
    Abstract: A multi-view display on a pillar in a vehicle can simultaneously project several different image perspectives across a defined area, with each perspective becoming visible as a driver shifts his or her position. The different perspectives may be created using a multi-view lens. As the driver moves fore and aft or side to side, the driver's viewing angle relative to the lens changes, enabling the appropriate image to be seen. This arrangement can eliminate or reduce any need for active head or eye tracking and can assure or attempt to ensure the appropriate exterior image is available independent of the driver's viewing angle relative to the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Roger Wallace Dressler
  • Publication number: 20120232910
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods are described for providing backwards compatibility for legacy devices that are unable to natively render non-channel based audio objects. These systems and methods can also be beneficially used to produce a reduced set of audio objects for compatible object-based decoders with low computing resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: SRS Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Wallace Dressler, Pierre-Anthony Stivell Lemieux, Alan D. Kraemer
  • Publication number: 20120230497
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods are described for providing backwards compatibility for legacy devices that are unable to natively render non-channel based audio objects. These systems and methods can also be beneficially used to produce a reduced set of audio objects for compatible object-based decoders with low computing resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: SRS Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Wallace Dressler, Pierre-Anthony Stivell Lemieux, Alan D. Kraemer
  • Patent number: 7551745
    Abstract: A single control determines both volume and the degree of compression in the reproduction of motion picture soundtracks. For some settings of the control, compression or limiting reduces the highest levels on a movie soundtrack, leaving the dialogue level substantially unchanged, thus removing the reason for complaints from the audience without the danger of making the dialogue too quiet for intelligibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth James Gundry, John Iles, Roger Wallace Dressler
  • Publication number: 20040247135
    Abstract: The present invention improves the stability of aural images in the decoding of multichannel signals. Output center-channel and back-surround channel signals are derived or augmented by applying signal processors such as matrix decoders to multichannel input signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Roger Wallace Dressler, Kenneth James Gundry
  • Publication number: 20040213420
    Abstract: A single control determines both volume and the degree of compression in the reproduction of motion picture soundtracks. For some settings of the control, compression or limiting reduces the highest levels on a movie soundtrack, leaving the dialogue level substantially unchanged, thus removing the reason for complaints from the audience without the danger of making the dialogue too quiet for intelligibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Kenneth James Gundry, John Iles, Roger Wallace Dressler