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).

  • Publication number: 20240127837
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Maria Luis VALERO, Christian HELMRICH, Johannes HILPERT
  • Patent number: 11887611
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Christian Helmrich, Johannes Hilpert
  • Publication number: 20230328183
    Abstract: An apparatus for conducting acoustic echo cancellation by generating one or more error signals is provided. The apparatus is to generate a first echo estimate including one or more first echo estimation signals by filtering one or more reference signals using a first filter configuration, wherein the one or more reference signals correspond to one or more loudspeaker signals or are derived from the one or more loudspeaker signals. Moreover, the apparatus is to generate a second echo estimate including one or more second echo estimation signals by filtering the one or more first echo estimation signals using a second filter configuration; or, the apparatus is to generate the second echo estimate including the one or more second echo estimation signals by generating an intermediate signal from the one or more first estimation signals, and by filtering the intermediate signal using the second filter configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Edwin MABANDE, Maria LUIS VALERO, Emanuel HABETS, Guendalina MILANO, Pilakeezhu DEEPTH
  • Publication number: 20230132885
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Maria Luis VALERO, Christian HELMRICH, Johannes HILPERT
  • Patent number: 11594235
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Christian Helmrich, Johannes Hilpert
  • Publication number: 20220148559
    Abstract: An acoustic echo cancellation unit includes: an audio processor configured to receive a multichannel audio signal and including: a first stage which is configured to process the multichannel audio signal to obtain a first set of spatial audio components; and a second stage which is configured to process the first set of spatial audio components to obtain a second set of spatial audio components; an echo cancellation processor configured to perform echo cancellation by use of the first set of spatial audio components or a deviated version of the first set of spatial audio components as reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Moritz WILD, Emanuel HABETS, Edwin MABANDE, Guendalina MILANO, Maria LUIS VALERO, Philipp GOETZ, Andreas WALTHER, Fabian KUECH
  • Publication number: 20210358508
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Maria Luis VALERO, Christian HELMRICH, Johannes HILPERT
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10978084
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Christian Helmrich, Johannes Hilpert
  • Publication number: 20200051577
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Maria Luis VALERO, Christian HELMRICH, Johannes HILPERT
  • Publication number: 20200051581
    Abstract: An apparatus for multichannel interference cancellation in a received audio signal including two or more received audio channels to obtain a modified audio signal including two or more modified audio channels is provided. The apparatus includes a first filter unit being configured to generate a first estimation of a first interference signal depending on a reference signal. Moreover, the apparatus includes a first interference canceller being configured to generate a first modified audio channel of the two or more modified audio channels from a first received audio channel of the two or more received audio channels depending on the first estimation of the first interference signal. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a second filter unit being configured to generate a second estimation of a second interference signal depending on the first estimation of the first interference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Maria LUIS VALERO, Emanuel HABETS, Paolo ANNIBALE, Anthony LOMBARD, Moritz WILD, Marcel RUTHA
  • 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: 10468042
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Christian Helmrich, Johannes Hilpert
  • Patent number: 10454454
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Emanuel Habets, Edwin Mabande, Anthony Lombard, Dirk Mahne, Bernhard Birzer
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20190180762
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Maria Luis VALERO, Christian HELMRICH, Johannes HILPERT
  • Patent number: 10255924
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Christian Helmrich, Johannes Hilpert
  • Publication number: 20180226954
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Maria Luis Valero, Emanuel Habets, Edwin Mabande, Anthony Lombard, Dirk Mahne, Bernhard Birzer
  • Publication number: 20170372712
    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: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Sascha DISCH, Marc GAYER, Christian HELMRICH, Goran MARKOVIC, Maria LUIS VALERO
  • Patent number: 9792920
    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 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Sascha Disch, Marc Gayer, Christian Helmrich, Goran Markovic, Maria Luis Valero