With Transformation Or Intentional Distortion Of Information Signal (e.g., Preemphasis) Patents (Class 369/88)
  • Patent number: 11265650
    Abstract: The disclosure describes methods, clients, and electronic devices for processing audio signals. One method for processing audio signals comprises: receiving a first audio signal inputted from a first audio acquisition terminal and a second audio signal inputted from a second audio acquisition terminal, wherein the first audio acquisition terminal and the second audio acquisition terminal are located in different positions of a same location; determining a target audio signal and a reference audio signal from the first audio signal and the second audio signal; determining a filter coefficient corresponding to the target audio signal based on the reference audio signal; and eliminating, from the target audio signal, a crosstalk signal determined based on the filter coefficient and the reference audio signal. The effect that a speech path can output speech signals with less interference is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Yunfeng Xu, Tao Yu, Li Liu
  • Patent number: 9431970
    Abstract: An electronic amplifier delivers to a load an output signal related to an input, typically with increased power. As the power output, volume, or gain of the amplifier is changed, so may the spectral characteristics of the signal. In order to maintain the desired spectral or tonal character of the output signal over the dynamic range of output power, biasing of the amplifier must be adjusted. Particular ratios of drive and bias currents and/or voltages for different implementations of amplifier technologies should be relatively constant to produce substantially invariant input-output spectral relationships from low power output through high power output settings. Several techniques are presented which provide these relationship in amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Nace Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Arthur E. Nace
  • Patent number: 8755922
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a wave field synthesis renderer with audio objects includes a provider for providing a scene description, wherein the scene description defines a temporal sequence of audio objects in an audio scene and further includes information on the source position of a virtual source as well as on a start or an end of the virtual source. Furthermore, the audio object includes at least a reference to an audio file associated with the virtual source. The audio objects are processed by a processor, in order to generate a single output data stream for each renderer module, wherein both information on the position of the virtual source and the audio file itself are included in mutual association in this output data stream. With this, high portability on the one hand and high quality due to secure data consistency on the other hand are achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Katrin Reichelt, Gabriel Gatzsche, Sandra Brix
  • Patent number: 4538256
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for producing a mechanically reproducible recording in a metal disk record by operating an electrically excited cutting stylus to cut a modulated groove in the record, orienting the cutting stylus to be driven at a tracking angle of less than 5.degree., and electronically compensating recording distortions caused by this tracking angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: TELDEC Telefunken-Decca Schallplatten GmbH
    Inventor: Horst Redlich
  • Patent number: 4417103
    Abstract: A time compression audio reproduction system has two stereo channels with means for synchronously operating the pitch correction means in each channel to obtain time coincidence between corresponding portions of the signal output from each channel. Features include switching for alternately selecting delay elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1983
    Assignee: The Variable Speech Control Company ("VSC")
    Inventors: William G. Eppler, Jr., Michael A. Klasco, Irwin H. Kornfeld
  • Patent number: 4406001
    Abstract: A time compression/expansion audio reproduction system of the type that provides pitch correction by repetitive variable time delay achieves improved performance by separating the reproduced signal from a recording into components which are separately delayed. For studio quality reproduction the signal is separated into contiguous frequency bands which are each delayed synchronously and the processing noise in each band is eliminated by filtering each band signal after delay to eliminate high frequency components. Bandpass filtering prior to recombination as well as blanking and amplitude compression and expansion are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1983
    Assignee: The Variable Speech Control Company ("VSC")
    Inventors: Michael A. Klasco, Irwin H. Kornfeld
  • Patent number: 4388654
    Abstract: A video disc player designed to play video disc records having either non compressed monophonic wide band audio signals or video disc records having compressed stereophonic limited band audio signals recorded thereon. The player includes expander circuitry which may be selectively operated as a time invariant amplifier in the absence of stereo audio signals and as an amplifier with a time varying transfer function for expanding the stereo signals. The expander circuit operating mode is controlled by a circuit which detects the presence of a second or stereo sound carrier in the signal recovered from the record being played. Concurrently with the amplifier being rendered time invariant during the playback of monophonic records, electronic filter circuitry is switched into the amplifier circuitry to reduce the monophonic audio bandwidth and effectively increase the resultant audio signal-to-noise ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1983
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventor: Gopi N. Mehrotra
  • Patent number: 4356349
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for processing audio signals in a particular manner to achieve an enhancement in the perceived sound when the processed audio signals are projected by audio transducers. A predetermined low frequency band of the audio signals is delayed by a time period which is generally less than the refractory period of the human ear and combined with out-of-phase cross-field portions within a particular amplitude range. A predetermined low frequency boost is applied generally of the order of about 3 db. Several embodiments are described to provide improved recordings or enhanced acoustic projections of conventional stereo recordings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1982
    Assignee: Trod Nossel Recording Studios, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard P. Robinson
  • Patent number: 4312060
    Abstract: The preamplifier has a first stage or section of low or unity gain, such as an emitter-follower circuit, which also isolates the preamplifier from impedance variations of the cartridge, and with a bandwidth for greater than the audio range to reproduce signals with a very high amplitude, rapidly changing wavefront without slew or amplitude overload distortion. A RIAA high frequency de-emphasis network is coupled between this first stage or section and a second amplifier section. A RIAA low frequency emphasis network is preferably placed in a negative feedback circuit of the latter amplifier section where the feedback circuit does not contain the high frequency components filtered out by the high frequency de-emphasis network. The second amplifier section need not have the bandwidth of the first amplifier stage or section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1982
    Inventor: Robert Grodinsky