Patents by Inventor George Sapna

George Sapna 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: 8254588
    Abstract: A system and method for Acoustic Echo Cancellation. The system and method include a subband affine projection filter and a variable step size controller configured to cancel an estimated echo from a near-end signal. The system and method also include a divergence detector adapted to reset the subband affine projection filter in response to determining a divergence is occurring. Additionally, the system and method include a double talk detector adapted to transmit a signal to mask an output signal when double talk is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte., Ltd.
    Inventors: Muralidhar Karthik, George Sapna, Anoop Kumar Krishna
  • Publication number: 20090276227
    Abstract: In order to reproduce audio signals which have been compressed or encoded for storage or transmission using, for example, MPEG audio encoding, a synthesis sub-band filter is employed which performs an inverse modified discrete cosine transform. The computational cost of the IMDCT implementation is reduced by pre-calculating arrays of sum and difference data. The arrays of sum and difference data are then used in two separate transform calculations, the results of which can be used in the generation of pulse code modulation audio data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific (PTE) Ltd.
    Inventors: George Sapna, Haiyun Yang
  • Publication number: 20090123002
    Abstract: A system and method for Acoustic Echo Cancellation. The system and method include a subband affine projection filter and a variable step size controller configured to cancel an estimated echo from a near-end signal. The system and method also include a divergence detector adapted to reset the subband affine projection filter in response to determining a divergence is occurring. Additionally, the system and method include a double talk detector adapted to transmit a signal to mask an output signal when double talk is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific PTE., Ltd.
    Inventors: Muralidhar Karthik, George Sapna, Anoop Kumar Krishna
  • Publication number: 20040240862
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of decoding audio data, encoded in multiple DIF blocks in a Digital Video (DV) data stream, and outputting said audio data as a PCM frame, including the following steps: (i) fetching a single Digital Interface Frame (DIF) block from the DV data stream; (ii) de-shuffling a first byte in the single DIF block to determine its index (n) in the PCM frame; (iii) repeating step (ii) until the last byte in the single DIF block is processed; (iv) writing the de-shuffled data into the PCM frame for output if the present DIF block is the last in the present DV frame; (v) repeat steps (i) to (iv). Also disclosed is apparatus arranged to perform the method, and de-shuffling equations to perform the de-shuffling of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Jianhua Sun, George Sapna