Patents by Inventor Marc Gayer

Marc Gayer 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: 20240067100
    Abstract: A beverage holder (1) for a motor vehicle has a receptacle (2) with a side wall (5) extending from a bottom wall (3) to an open top (4) that is farther upward. At least one elastic compensation element (7) is provided for holding differently sized drinking vessels (6). The side wall (5) has at least one opening (8), and an elastic covering (10) penetrates the opening (8) due to its biasing to form the elastic compensation element (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Bernd Gayer, Marc-Lieven Heth, Michael Alborg
  • Patent number: 11869525
    Abstract: A method is described that processes an audio signal. A discontinuity between a filtered past frame and a filtered current frame of the audio signal is removed using linear predictive filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Ravelli, Manuel Jander, Grzegorz Pietrzyk, Martin Dietz, Marc Gayer
  • Publication number: 20230343352
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal from an input signal includes a patch generator and a combiner. The input signal is represented for first and second bands by first and second resolution data, respectively, the second resolution being lower than the first. The patch generator generates first and second patches from the first band of the input signal according to first and second patching algorithms, respectively. A spectral density of the second patch generated using the second patching algorithm is higher than a spectral density of a first patch generated using the first patching algorithm. The combiner combines both patches and the first band of the input signal to obtain the bandwidth extended signal. The apparatus scales the input signal according to the first and second patching algorithms or scales the first and second patches, so that the bandwidth extended signal fulfills a spectral envelope criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Frederik NAGEL, Sascha DISCH, Max NEUENDORF, Stefan BAYER, Marc GAYER, Markus LOHWASSER, Nikolaus RETTELBACH, Ulrich KRAEMER
  • Publication number: 20230343356
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal from an input signal includes a patch generator and a combiner. The input signal is represented for first and second bands by first and second resolution data, respectively, the second resolution being lower than the first. The patch generator generates first and second patches from the first band of the input signal according to first and second patching algorithms, respectively. A spectral density of the second patch generated using the second patching algorithm is higher than a spectral density of a first patch generated using the first patching algorithm. The combiner combines both patches and the first band of the input signal to obtain the bandwidth extended signal. The apparatus scales the input signal according to the first and second patching algorithms or scales the first and second patches, so that the bandwidth extended signal fulfills a spectral envelope criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Frederik NAGEL, Sascha DISCH, Max NEUENDORF, Stefan BAYER, Marc GAYER, Markus LOHWASSER, Nikolaus RETTELBACH, Ulrich KRAEMER
  • Publication number: 20230343358
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal from an input signal includes a patch generator and a combiner. The input signal is represented for first and second bands by first and second resolution data, respectively, the second resolution being lower than the first. The patch generator generates first and second patches from the first band of the input signal according to first and second patching algorithms, respectively. A spectral density of the second patch generated using the second patching algorithm is higher than a spectral density of a first patch generated using the first patching algorithm. The combiner combines both patches and the first band of the input signal to obtain the bandwidth extended signal. The apparatus scales the input signal according to the first and second patching algorithms or scales the first and second patches, so that the bandwidth extended signal fulfills a spectral envelope criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Frederik NAGEL, Sascha DISCH, Max NEUENDORF, Stefan BAYER, Marc GAYER, Markus LOHWASSER, Nikolaus RETTELBACH, Ulrich KRAEMER
  • Publication number: 20230343357
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal from an input signal includes a patch generator and a combiner. The input signal is represented for first and second bands by first and second resolution data, respectively, the second resolution being lower than the first. The patch generator generates first and second patches from the first band of the input signal according to first and second patching algorithms, respectively. A spectral density of the second patch generated using the second patching algorithm is higher than a spectral density of a first patch generated using the first patching algorithm. The combiner combines both patches and the first band of the input signal to obtain the bandwidth extended signal. The apparatus scales the input signal according to the first and second patching algorithms or scales the first and second patches, so that the bandwidth extended signal fulfills a spectral envelope criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Frederik NAGEL, Sascha DISCH, Max NEUENDORF, Stefan BAYER, Marc GAYER, Markus LOHWASSER, Nikolaus RETTELBACH, Ulrich KRAEMER
  • Publication number: 20230343355
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal from an input signal includes a patch generator and a combiner. The input signal is represented for first and second bands by first and second resolution data, respectively, the second resolution being lower than the first. The patch generator generates first and second patches from the first band of the input signal according to first and second patching algorithms, respectively. A spectral density of the second patch generated using the second patching algorithm is higher than a spectral density of a first patch generated using the first patching algorithm. The combiner combines both patches and the first band of the input signal to obtain the bandwidth extended signal. The apparatus scales the input signal according to the first and second patching algorithms or scales the first and second patches, so that the bandwidth extended signal fulfills a spectral envelope criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Frederik NAGEL, Sascha DISCH, Max NEUENDORF, Stefan BAYER, Marc GAYER, Markus LOHWASSER, Nikolaus RETTELBACH, Ulrich KRAEMER
  • Publication number: 20230343354
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal from an input signal includes a patch generator and a combiner. The input signal is represented for first and second bands by first and second resolution data, respectively, the second resolution being lower than the first. The patch generator generates first and second patches from the first band of the input signal according to first and second patching algorithms, respectively. A spectral density of the second patch generated using the second patching algorithm is higher than a spectral density of a first patch generated using the first patching algorithm. The combiner combines both patches and the first band of the input signal to obtain the bandwidth extended signal. The apparatus scales the input signal according to the first and second patching algorithms or scales the first and second patches, so that the bandwidth extended signal fulfills a spectral envelope criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Frederik NAGEL, Sascha DISCH, Max NEUENDORF, Stefan BAYER, Marc GAYER, Markus LOHWASSER, Nikolaus RETTELBACH, Ulrich KRAEMER
  • Publication number: 20230343353
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal from an input signal includes a patch generator and a combiner. The input signal is represented for first and second bands by first and second resolution data, respectively, the second resolution being lower than the first. The patch generator generates first and second patches from the first band of the input signal according to first and second patching algorithms, respectively. A spectral density of the second patch generated using the second patching algorithm is higher than a spectral density of a first patch generated using the first patching algorithm. The combiner combines both patches and the first band of the input signal to obtain the bandwidth extended signal. The apparatus scales the input signal according to the first and second patching algorithms or scales the first and second patches, so that the bandwidth extended signal fulfills a spectral envelope criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Frederik NAGEL, Sascha DISCH, Max NEUENDORF, Stefan BAYER, Marc GAYER, Markus LOHWASSER, Nikolaus RETTELBACH, Ulrich KRAEMER
  • Publication number: 20230335150
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal from an input signal includes a patch generator and a combiner. The input signal is represented for first and second bands by first and second resolution data, respectively, the second resolution being lower than the first. The patch generator generates first and second patches from the first band of the input signal according to first and second patching algorithms, respectively. A spectral density of the second patch generated using the second patching algorithm is higher than a spectral density of a first patch generated using the first patching algorithm. The combiner combines both patches and the first band of the input signal to obtain the bandwidth extended signal. The apparatus scales the input signal according to the first and second patching algorithms or scales the first and second patches, so that the bandwidth extended signal fulfills a spectral envelope criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Frederik NAGEL, Sascha DISCH, Max NEUENDORF, Stefan BAYER, Marc GAYER, Markus LOHWASSER, Nikolaus RETTELBACH, Ulrich KRAEMER
  • Publication number: 20230335147
    Abstract: A method is described that processes an audio signal. A discontinuity between a filtered past frame and a filtered current frame of the audio signal is removed using linear predictive filtering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Emmanuel RAVELLI, Manuel JANDER, Grzegorz PIETRZYK, Martin DIETZ, Marc GAYER
  • Patent number: 11443752
    Abstract: An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information includes a arithmetic decoder for providing a plurality of decoded spectral values on the basis of an arithmetically-encoded representation of the spectral values and a frequency-domain-to-time-domain converter for providing a time-domain audio representation using the decoded spectral values. The arithmetic decoder is configured to select a mapping rule describing a mapping of a code value onto a symbol code in dependence on a context state. The arithmetic decoder is configured to determine or modify the current context state in dependence on a plurality of previously-decoded spectral values. The arithmetic decoder is configured to detect a group of a plurality of previously-decoded spectral values, which fulfill, individually or taken together, a predetermined condition regarding their magnitudes, and to determine the current context state in dependence on a result of the detection. An audio encoder uses similar principles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Guillaume Fuchs, Vignesh Subbaraman, Nikolaus Rettelbach, Markus Multrus, Marc Gayer, Patrick Warmbold, Christian Griebel, Oliver Weiss
  • Publication number: 20220157328
    Abstract: A method is described that processes an audio signal. A discontinuity between a filtered past frame and a filtered current frame of the audio signal is removed using linear predictive filtering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Emmanuel RAVELLI, Manuel JANDER, Grzegorz PIETRZYK, Martin DIETZ, Marc GAYER
  • Publication number: 20220148609
    Abstract: A method is described that processes an audio signal. A discontinuity between a filtered past frame and a filtered current frame of the audio signal is removed using linear predictive filtering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Emmanuel RAVELLI, Manuel JANDER, Grzegorz PIETRZYK, Martin DIETZ, Marc GAYER
  • Patent number: 11244694
    Abstract: A method is described that processes an audio signal. A discontinuity between a filtered past frame and a filtered current frame of the audio signal is removed using linear predictive filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Ravelli, Manuel Jander, Grzegorz Pietrzyk, Martin Dietz, Marc Gayer
  • Publication number: 20210306786
    Abstract: A sound reproduction/simulation system includes at least sound reproduction device driven by one or more audio signals and a processor for processing an input audio stream to generate the one or more audio signals. The processor performs processing based on processing parameters defined by a sound characteristic of a target system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas WALTHER, Harald FUCHS, Marc GAYER
  • Patent number: 11031022
    Abstract: Noise filling of a spectrum of an audio signal is improved in quality with respect to the noise filled spectrum so that the reproduction of the noise filled audio signal is less annoying, by performing the noise filling in a manner dependent on a tonality of the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Sascha Disch, Marc Gayer, Christian Helmrich, Goran Markovic, Maria Luis Valero
  • Publication number: 20190348053
    Abstract: Noise filling of a spectrum of an audio signal is improved in quality with respect to the noise filled spectrum so that the reproduction of the noise filled audio signal is less annoying, by performing the noise filling in a manner dependent on a tonality of the audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Sascha DISCH, Marc GAYER, Christian HELMRICH, Goran MARKOVIC, Maria LUIS VALERO
  • Patent number: 10410642
    Abstract: Noise filling of a spectrum of an audio signal is improved in quality with respect to the noise filled spectrum so that the reproduction of the noise filled audio signal is less annoying, by performing the noise filling in a manner dependent on a tonality of the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Sascha Disch, Marc Gayer, Christian Helmrich, Goran Markovic, Maria Luis Valero
  • Patent number: RE49801
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal from an input signal includes a patch generator and a combiner. The input signal is represented for first and second bands by first and second resolution data, respectively, the second resolution being lower than the first. The patch generator generates first and second patches from the first band of the input signal according to first and second patching algorithms, respectively. A spectral density of the second patch generated using the second patching algorithm is higher than a spectral density of a first patch generated using the first patching algorithm. The combiner combines both patches and the first band of the input signal to obtain the bandwidth extended signal. The apparatus scales the input signal according to the first and second patching algorithms or scales the first and second patches, so that the bandwidth extended signal fulfills a spectral envelope criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Frederik Nagel, Sascha Disch, Max Neuendorf, Stefan Bayer, Marc Gayer, Markus Lohwasser, Nikolaus Rettelbach, Ulrich Kraemer