Patents by Inventor Markus Schnell
Markus Schnell 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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Publication number: 20260105924Abstract: Embodiments according to the invention comprise an audio decoder configured to, for a predetermined frame among consecutive frames, decode, from a data stream, a quantized spectrum, a linear prediction coefficient based spectral envelope representation and a fundamental frequency related parameter, and configured to determine a spectral shaping function from the linear prediction coefficient based spectral envelope representation using a first manner below a pitch frequency determined from the fundamental frequency related parameter, and a second manner above the pitch frequency, to spectrally shape the quantized spectrum using the spectral shaping function to obtain a dequantized spectrum and to reconstruct the predetermined frame using the dequantized spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2025Publication date: April 16, 2026Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Christian HELMRICH, Guillaume FUCHS, Goran MARKOVIC, Markus SCHNELL, Stefan REUSCHL, Bernhard GRILL
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Patent number: 12512107Abstract: An audio encoder for encoding audio input data has: a preprocessor for preprocessing the audio input data to obtain audio data to be coded; a coder processor for coding the audio data to be coded; and a controller for controlling the coder processor so that, depending on a first signal characteristic of a first frame of the audio data to be coded, a number of audio data items of the audio data to be coded by the coder processor for the first frame is reduced compared to a second signal characteristic of a second frame, and a first number of information units used for coding the reduced number of audio data items for the first frame is stronger enhanced compared to a second number of information units for the second frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2024Date of Patent: December 30, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Jan Büthe, Markus Schnell, Stefan Döhla, Bernhard Grill, Martin Dietz
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Patent number: 12462822Abstract: A decoder for decoding a frame to reconstruct a signal portion of a signal is provided. The signal portion is encoded within the frame, wherein the frame includes a bitstream payload and two or more redundancy bits, wherein the bitstream payload includes a plurality of payload bits, wherein each of the payload bits exhibits a position within the bitstream payload. The decoder includes a channel decoding module, being configured to detect, depending on the two or more redundancy bits, whether the bitstream payload includes one or more corrupted bits being one or more of the payload bits that are distorted or that are likely to be distorted. Moreover, the decoder includes a source decoding module.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 4, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Adrian Tomasek, Ralph Sperschneider, Jan Buethe, Conrad Benndorf, Martin Dietz, Markus Schnell, Maximilian Schlegel
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Publication number: 20250316282Abstract: There are provided examples of audio signal representation encoders, audio encoders, audio signal representation decoders, and audio decoders, in particular using error resilient tools, e.g. for learnable applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2025Publication date: October 9, 2025Inventors: Kishan GUPTA, Nicola PIA, Srikanth KORSE, Guillaume FUCHS, Markus MULTRUS, Markus SCHNELL, Andreas BRENDEL
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Publication number: 20250166646Abstract: An apparatus for generating an encoded signal includes: a window sequence controller for generating a window sequence information for windowing an audio or image signal, the window sequence information indicating a first window for generating a first frame of spectral values, a second window function and at least one third window function for generating a second frame of spectral values, wherein the first window function, the second window function and the one or more third window functions overlap within a multi-overlap region; a preprocessor for windowing a second block of samples corresponding to the second window function and the at least one third window functions using an auxiliary window function to acquire a second block of windowed samples, a spectrum converter for applying an aliasing-introducing transform; and a processor for processing the first frame and the second frame to acquire encoded frames of the audio or image signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2025Publication date: May 22, 2025Inventors: Christian HELMRICH, Jérémie LECOMTE, Goran MARKOVIC, Markus SCHNELL, Bernd EDLER, Stefan REUSCHL
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Publication number: 20250124935Abstract: An audio encoder for encoding an audio signal includes: a first encoding processor for encoding a first audio signal portion in a frequency domain, wherein the first encoding processor includes: a time frequency converter for converting the first audio signal portion into a frequency domain representation having spectral lines up to a maximum frequency of the first audio signal portion; a spectral encoder for encoding the frequency domain representation; a second encoding processor for encoding a second different audio signal portion in the time domain; a cross-processor for calculating, from the encoded spectral representation of the first audio signal portion, initialization data of the second encoding processor, so that the second encoding processing is initialized to encode the second audio signal portion immediately following the first audio signal portion in time in the audio signal; a controller configured for analyzing the audio signal and for determining, which portion of the audio signal is the firsType: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventors: Sascha DISCH, Martin DIETZ, Markus MULTRUS, Guillaume FUCHS, Emmanuel RAVELLI, Matthias NEUSINGER, Markus SCHNELL, Benjamin SCHUBERT, Bernhard GRILL
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Patent number: 12272365Abstract: An apparatus processing an encoded signal to acquire first and second frames comprising spectral values and an aliasing portion; applying a transform to the first frame using a first window function to acquire a first block of samples, applying another transform to a first portion of the second frame using a second window function, and applying another one or more transforms to a second portion of the second frame using one or more third window functions to acquire a second block of samples; and post-processing the second block of samples using a folding-out operation to acquire a post-processed second block of samples comprising a portion of the second block of samples overlapping with the first block of samples in a multi-overlap region, windowing the post-processed second block of samples using an auxiliary window function, and overlap-adding a windowed post-processed second block of samples and the first block of samples.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Christian Helmrich, Jérémie Lecomte, Goran Markovic, Markus Schnell, Bernd Edler, Stefan Reuschl
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Publication number: 20250056714Abstract: A passive vibration damper for damping vibrations, particularly for damping vibrations of a printed circuit board, includes a chamber having a surrounding wall which defines a cavity. The volume of the cavity is at least 2% of the volume of the vibration absorber and not more than 95% of the volume of the vibration absorber. The chamber includes particles, wherein the wall and the particles have the same material composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicants: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, Continental Engineering Services GmbHInventors: Ralf Scheib, Sven Schröder, Markus Schnell, Stefan Kammann
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Publication number: 20250046324Abstract: An apparatus for processing an audio signal includes a configurable first audio signal processor for processing the audio signal in accordance with different configuration settings to obtain a processed audio signal, wherein the apparatus is adapted so that different configuration settings result in different sampling rates of the processed audio signal. The apparatus furthermore includes n analysis filter bank having a first number of analysis filter bank channels, a synthesis filter bank having a second number of synthesis filter bank channels, a second audio processor being adapted to receive and process an audio signal having a predetermined sampling rate, and a controller for controlling the first number of analysis filter bank channels or the second number of synthesis filter bank channels in accordance with a configuration setting.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Markus LOHWASSER, Manuel JANDER, Max NEUENDORF, Ralf GEIGER, Markus SCHNELL, Matthias HILDENBRAND, Tobias CHALUPKA
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Patent number: 12175991Abstract: An audio encoder for encoding audio input data has: a preprocessor for preprocessing the audio input data to obtain audio data to be coded; a coder processor for coding the audio data to be coded; and a controller for controlling the coder processor so that, depending on a first signal characteristic of a first frame of the audio data to be coded, a number of audio data items of the audio data to be coded by the coder processor for the first frame is reduced compared to a second signal characteristic of a second frame, and a first number of information units used for coding the reduced number of audio data items for the first frame is stronger enhanced compared to a second number of information units for the second frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Jan Büthe, Markus Schnell, Stefan Döhla, Bernhard Grill, Martin Dietz
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Patent number: 12165662Abstract: A downscaled version of an audio decoding procedure may more effectively and/or at improved compliance maintenance be achieved if the synthesis window used for downscaled audio decoding is a downsampled version of a reference synthesis window involved in the non-downscaled audio decoding procedure by downsampling by the downsampling factor by which the downsampled sampling rate and the original sampling rate deviate, and downsampled using a segmental interpolation in segments of ¼ of the frame length.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Markus Schnell, Manfred Lutzky, Eleni Fotopoulou, Konstantin Schmidt, Conrad Benndorf, Adrian Tomasek, Tobias Albert, Timon Seidl
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Patent number: 12159641Abstract: An audio encoder for encoding audio input data has: a preprocessor for preprocessing the audio input data to obtain audio data to be coded; a coder processor for coding the audio data to be coded; and a controller for controlling the coder processor so that, depending on a first signal characteristic of a first frame of the audio data to be coded, a number of audio data items of the audio data to be coded by the coder processor for the first frame is reduced compared to a second signal characteristic of a second frame, and a first number of information units used for coding the reduced number of audio data items for the first frame is stronger enhanced compared to a second number of information units for the second frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Jan Büthe, Markus Schnell, Stefan Döhla, Bernhard Grill, Martin Dietz
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Patent number: 12159638Abstract: A downscaled version of an audio decoding procedure may more effectively and/or at improved compliance maintenance be achieved if the synthesis window used for downscaled audio decoding is a downsampled version of a reference synthesis window involved in the non-downscaled audio decoding procedure by downsampling by the downsampling factor by which the downsampled sampling rate and the original sampling rate deviate, and downsampled using a segmental interpolation in segments of ¼ of the frame length.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Markus Schnell, Manfred Lutzky, Eleni Fotopoulou, Konstantin Schmidt, Conrad Benndorf, Adrian Tomasek, Tobias Albert, Timon Seidl
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Patent number: 12154580Abstract: A downscaled version of an audio decoding procedure may more effectively and/or at improved compliance maintenance be achieved if the synthesis window used for downscaled audio decoding is a downsampled version of a reference synthesis window involved in the non-downscaled audio decoding procedure by downsampling by the downsampling factor by which the downsampled sampling rate and the original sampling rate deviate, and downsampled using a segmental interpolation in segments of ¼ of the frame length.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Markus Schnell, Manfred Lutzky, Eleni Fotopoulou, Konstantin Schmidt, Conrad Benndorf, Adrian Tomasek, Tobias Albert, Timon Seidl
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Patent number: RE50654Abstract: The transient problem may be sufficiently addressed, and for this purpose, a further delay on the side of the decoding may be reduced if a new SBR frame class is used wherein the frame boundaries are not shifted, i.e. the grid boundaries are still synchronized with the frame boundaries, but wherein a transient position indication is additionally used as a syntax element so as to be used, on the encoder and/or decoder sides, within the frames of these new frame class for determining the grid boundaries within these frames.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: November 4, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Markus Schnell, Michael Schuldt, Manfred Lutzky, Manuel Jander
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Patent number: RE50695Abstract: The transient problem may be sufficiently addressed, and for this purpose, a further delay on the side of the decoding may be reduced if a new SBR frame class is used wherein the frame boundaries are not shifted, i.e. the grid boundaries are still synchronized with the frame boundaries, but wherein a transient position indication is additionally used as a syntax element so as to be used, on the encoder and/or decoder sides, within the frames of these new frame class for determining the grid boundaries within these frames.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: December 9, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Markus Schnell, Michael Schuldt, Manfred Lutzky, Manuel Jander
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Patent number: RE50711Abstract: The transient problem may be sufficiently addressed, and for this purpose, a further delay on the side of the decoding may be reduced if a new SBR frame class is used wherein the frame boundaries are not shifted, i.e. the grid boundaries are still synchronized with the frame boundaries, but wherein a transient position indication is additionally used as a syntax element so as to be used, on the encoder and/or decoder sides, within the frames of these new frame class for determining the grid boundaries within these frames.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: December 23, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Markus Schnell, Michael Schuldt, Manfred Lutzky, Manuel Jander
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Patent number: RE50768Abstract: The transient problem may be sufficiently addressed, and for this purpose, a further delay on the side of the decoding may be reduced if a new SBR frame class is used wherein the frame boundaries are not shifted, i.e. the grid boundaries are still synchronized with the frame boundaries, but wherein a transient position indication is additionally used as a syntax element so as to be used, on the encoder and/or decoder sides, within the frames of these new frame class for determining the grid boundaries within these frames.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Markus Schnell, Michael Schuldt, Manfred Lutzky, Manuel Jander
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Patent number: RE50801Abstract: The transient problem may be sufficiently addressed, and for this purpose, a further delay on the side of the decoding may be reduced if a new SBR frame class is used wherein the frame boundaries are not shifted, i.e. the grid boundaries are still synchronized with the frame boundaries, but wherein a transient position indication is additionally used as a syntax element so as to be used, on the encoder and/or decoder sides, within the frames of these new frame class for determining the grid boundaries within these frames.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Markus Schnell, Michael Schuldt, Manfred Lutzky, Manuel Jander
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Patent number: RE50881Abstract: The transient problem may be sufficiently addressed, and for this purpose, a further delay on the side of the decoding may be reduced if a new SBR frame class is used wherein the frame boundaries are not shifted, i.e. the grid boundaries are still synchronized with the frame boundaries, but wherein a transient position indication is additionally used as a syntax element so as to be used, on the encoder and/or decoder sides, within the frames of these new frame class for determining the grid boundaries within these frames.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: May 5, 2026Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Markus Schnell, Michael Schuldt, Manfred Lutzky, Manuel Jander