Patents by Inventor Bernardus Zwaans

Bernardus Zwaans 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).

  • Publication number: 20050075744
    Abstract: A mixing system for mixing a plurality of digital audio signals, at least one of which is a noise-shaped oversampled digital audio signal having a predetermined sampling frequency and bit resolution, said system comprising a summing unit for computing a sum signal of said plurality of input signals; a clipping unit having an input for receiving said sum signal, said clipping unit clipping said sum signal; further comprising a filter unit between the input terminals and the clipping unit, arranged to selectively suppress frequency components outside an audio frequency band from the sum signal; and a converter unit arranged to receive a clipped sum signal from the clipping unit and to convert said clipped sum signal into an output signal of said bit resolution, using noise-shaping, the clipping unit being arranged to limit the input values to a range of values that the converter is able to handle in a stable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Inventors: Derk Reefman, Bernardus Zwaans