Abstract: A method for processing an input signal to create an enhanced output signal includes obtaining an envelope of the input signal, determining a logarithm signal of the envelope, determining a rate of change of the logarithm signal to obtain a slope value, and applying a value derived from the slope value to the input signal to thereby generate an enhanced output signal.

Abstract: 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 the like, obtains a measure of ambient noise at the playback location and adjusts the gain of the drive signal provided to the loudspeaker based on this measure and based on the audio signal to be played back.

Abstract: A wired or wireless earset assembly includes an earset housing having a curved portion configured to fit to the top of an ear, a speaker driver contained in a speaker housing, a flexible tube having a first extension so as to be coupled with at least a part of the curved portion of the earset housing and a second extension coupled with the speaker housing, a rotatable cap containing a bud coupled with the speaker driver, a sound delivery port in the bud, a circuitry for processing an input signal in the case, and a wire in the flexible tube connecting the circuitry and the speaker driver.

Abstract: A noise activity detector includes a circuit for calculating average energy in a critical bandwidth, a circuit for determining a threshold function, a circuit for generating a dynamic modification of the threshold function, a circuit for identifying frequency components of the signal having energy that is above threshold values determined by the threshold function, and to determine a first average energy value representing an average energy of the identified frequency components with energy above the threshold, a circuit for identifying frequency components of the signal having energy that is below threshold values determined by the threshold function, and to determine a second average energy value representing an average energy of the identified frequency components with energy below the threshold, a circuit for offsetting at least one of the first and second average energy values, a circuit for comparing the resultant average energy values with one another, and a circuit for indicating the presence of noise

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for matching first and second signals includes transforming, over a selected frequency band, the first and second signals into the frequency domain such that frequency components of the first and second signals are assigned to associated frequency bins, generating a scaling ratio associated with each frequency bin, and for at least one of the two signals, or at least a third signal derived from one of the two signals, scaling frequency components associated with each frequency bin by the scaling ratio associated with that frequency bin. The generating comprises determining, during a non-startup period, a signal ratio of the first and second signals for each frequency bin, determining the usability of each signal ratio, and designating a signal ratio as a scaling ratio if it is determined to be usable.