Patents by Inventor Maria Luis-Valero
Maria Luis-Valero 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).
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Patent number: 12249340Abstract: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Christian Helmrich, Johannes Hilpert
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Publication number: 20240127837Abstract: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Maria Luis VALERO, Christian HELMRICH, Johannes HILPERT
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Patent number: 11887611Abstract: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Christian Helmrich, Johannes Hilpert
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Publication number: 20230132885Abstract: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Maria Luis VALERO, Christian HELMRICH, Johannes HILPERT
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Patent number: 11594235Abstract: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Christian Helmrich, Johannes Hilpert
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Publication number: 20210358508Abstract: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Maria Luis VALERO, Christian HELMRICH, Johannes HILPERT
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Patent number: 11031022Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Sascha Disch, Marc Gayer, Christian Helmrich, Goran Markovic, Maria Luis Valero
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Patent number: 10978084Abstract: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Christian Helmrich, Johannes Hilpert
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Publication number: 20200051577Abstract: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Maria Luis VALERO, Christian HELMRICH, Johannes HILPERT
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Patent number: 10468042Abstract: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Christian Helmrich, Johannes Hilpert
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Patent number: 10454454Abstract: A partitioned block frequency domain adaptive filter device includes a frequency domain adaptive filter configured for filtering a frequency domain representation of a time domain input signal depending on a set of filter coefficients consisting of a plurality of blocks of filter coefficients in order to produce a filtered signal; a plurality of parallel arranged filter update blocks; wherein each of the filter update blocks includes an adaptation module configured for executing an adaptation sequence including the steps of calculating an approximation of a constrained gradient update for the filter coefficients of the respective block of filter coefficients, and calculating a cumulative error introduced on the unconstrained gradient update; wherein each of the filter update blocks includes a correction module configured for executing a correction sequence including the steps of calculating a corrected constrained gradient update for the filter coefficients of the respective block of filter coefficients.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Emanuel Habets, Edwin Mabande, Anthony Lombard, Dirk Mahne, Bernhard Birzer
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Patent number: 10410642Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Sascha Disch, Marc Gayer, Christian Helmrich, Goran Markovic, Maria Luis Valero
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Publication number: 20190180762Abstract: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Maria Luis VALERO, Christian HELMRICH, Johannes HILPERT
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Patent number: 10255924Abstract: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Christian Helmrich, Johannes Hilpert
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Publication number: 20180226954Abstract: A partitioned block frequency domain adaptive filter device includes a frequency domain adaptive filter configured for filtering a frequency domain representation of a time domain input signal depending on a set of filter coefficients consisting of a plurality of blocks of filter coefficients in order to produce a filtered signal; a plurality of parallel arranged filter update blocks; wherein each of the filter update blocks includes an adaptation module configured for executing an adaptation sequence including the steps of calculating an approximation of a constrained gradient update for the filter coefficients of the respective block of filter coefficients, and calculating a cumulative error introduced on the unconstrained gradient update; wherein each of the filter update blocks includes a correction module configured for executing a correction sequence including the steps of calculating a corrected constrained gradient update for the filter coefficients of the respective block of filter coefficients.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Emanuel Habets, Edwin Mabande, Anthony Lombard, Dirk Mahne, Bernhard Birzer
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Patent number: 9792920Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Sascha Disch, Marc Gayer, Christian Helmrich, Goran Markovic, Maria Luis Valero
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Patent number: 9524724Abstract: Noise filling in perceptual transform audio codecs is improved by performing the noise filling with a spectrally global tilt, rather than in a spectrally flat manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Sascha Disch, Marc Gayer, Christian Helmrich, Goran Markovic, Maria Luis Valero
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Publication number: 20160140974Abstract: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Maria Luis VALERO, Christian HELMRICH, Johannes HILPERT
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Publication number: 20130332174Abstract: An audio codec supporting both, time-domain and frequency-domain coding modes, having low-delay and an increased coding efficiency in terms of iterate/distortion ratio, is obtained by configuring the audio encoder such that same operates in different operating modes such that if the active operative mode is a first operating mode, a mode dependent set of available frame coding modes is disjoined to a first subset of time-domain coding modes, and overlaps with a second subset of frequency-domain coding modes, whereas if the active operating mode is a second operating mode, the mode dependent set of available frame coding modes overlaps with both subsets, i.e. the subset of time-domain coding modes as well as the subset of frequency-domain coding modes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.Inventors: Ralf Geiger, Konstantin Schmidt, Bernhard Grill, Manfred Lutzky, Michael Werner, Marc Gayer, Johannes Hilpert, Maria Luis Valero, Wolfgang Jaegers
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Patent number: 8255228Abstract: An efficient encoded representation of a first and a second input audio signal can be derived using correlation information indicating a correlation between the first and the second input audio signals, when a signal characterization information, indicating at least a first or a second, different characteristic of the input audio signal is additionally considered. Phase information indicating a phase relation between the first and the second input audio signals is derived, when the input audio signals have the first characteristic. The phase information and a correlation measure are included into the encoded representation when the input audio signals have the first characteristic, and only the correlation information is included into the encoded representation when the input audio signals have the second characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.Inventors: Johannes Hilpert, Bernhard Grill, Matthias Neusinger, Julien Robilliard, Maria Luis-Valero