Patents by Inventor Robin Thesing

Robin Thesing 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: 12191834
    Abstract: A dynamic range control unit (210) configured to apply dynamic range control, referred to as DRC, to an audio signal (211). The DRC unit (210) is configured to downsample a subband signal (212) derived from the audio signal (211), to provide a downsampled subband signal (321), to determine a DRC gain (329) based on the downsampled subband signal (321), and to apply the DRC gain (329) to the subband signal (212), to provide a compressed subband signal (213) of a compressed audio signal (214).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Stanislaw Gorlow, Robin Thesing
  • Patent number: 11875805
    Abstract: There is provided methods and apparatuses for decoding and encoding of audio signals. In particular, a method for decoding includes receiving a waveform-coded signal having a spectral content corresponding to a subset of the frequency range above a cross-over frequency. The waveform-coded signal is interleaved with a parametric high frequency reconstruction of the audio signal above the cross-over frequency. In this way an improved reconstruction of the high frequency bands of the audio signal is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Kristofer Kjoerling, Robin Thesing, Harald Mundt, Heiko Purnhagen, Karl Jonas Roeden
  • Patent number: 11545166
    Abstract: A technique including receiving and decoding a coded bitstream encoded with audio content including first audio objects corresponding to a first media content type of two consecutive media content types and second audio objects corresponding to a second media content type of the two consecutive media content types, and audio metadata corresponding to the audio content. The audio metadata including first and second audio object gains, for the first and second audio objects, generated in part based on a first fading curve of the first media content type and a second fading curve of the second media content type, respectively. The technique further includes applying the first and second audio object gains to the first and second audio objects, and rendering a sound field represented by the first audio object with the applied first audio object gain and the second audio object with the applied second audio object gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Alexander Stahlmann, Reinhold Boehm, Mark C. Leddy, Karsten Linzmeier, Vinay Mathew, Simon Plain, Heiko Purnhagen, Leif Sehlström, Robin Thesing
  • Patent number: 11264040
    Abstract: A method for rendering an audio output based on an audio data stream including M audio signals, side information including a series of reconstruction instances of a reconstruction matrix C and first timing data, the side information allowing reconstruction of N audio objects from the M audio signals, and object metadata defining spatial relationships between the N audio objects. The method includes generating a synchronized rendering matrix based on the object metadata, the first timing data, and information relating to a current playback system configuration, the synchronized rendering matrix having a rendering instance for each reconstruction instance, multiplying each reconstruction instance with a corresponding rendering instance to form a corresponding instance of an integrated rendering matrix, and applying the integrated rendering matrix to the audio signals in order to render an audio output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Klaus Peichl, Tobias Friedrich, Robin Thesing, Heiko Purnhagen, Martin Wolters
  • Patent number: 11145318
    Abstract: There is provided methods and apparatuses for decoding and encoding of audio signals. In particular, a method for decoding includes receiving a waveform-coded signal having a spectral content corresponding to a subset of the frequency range above a cross-over frequency. The waveform-coded signal is interleaved with a parametric high frequency reconstruction of the audio signal above the cross-over frequency. In this way an improved reconstruction of the high frequency bands of the audio signal is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Kristofer Kjoerling, Robin Thesing, Harald Mundt, Heiko Purnhagen, Karl Jonas Roeden
  • Patent number: 10891962
    Abstract: A method for rendering an audio output based on an audio data stream including M audio signals, side information including a series of reconstruction instances of a reconstruction matrix C and first timing data, the side information allowing reconstruction of N audio objects from the M audio signals, and object metadata defining spatial relationships between the N audio objects. The method includes generating a synchronized rendering matrix based on the object metadata, the first timing data, and information relating to a current playback system configuration, the synchronized rendering matrix having a rendering instance for each reconstruction instance, multiplying each reconstruction instance with a corresponding rendering instance to form a corresponding instance of an integrated rendering matrix, and applying the integrated rendering matrix to the audio signals in order to render an audio output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Klaus Peichl, Tobias Friedrich, Robin Thesing, Heiko Purnhagen, Martin Wolters
  • Publication number: 20210005211
    Abstract: A technique including receiving and decoding a coded bitstream encoded with audio content including first audio objects corresponding to a first media content type of two consecutive media content types and second audio objects corresponding to a second media content type of the two consecutive media content types, and audio metadata corresponding to the audio content. The audio metadata including first and second audio object gains, for the first and second audio objects, generated in part based on a first fading curve of the first media content type and a second fading curve of the second media content type, respectively. The technique further includes applying the first and second audio object gains to the first and second audio objects, and rendering a sound field represented by the first audio object with the applied first audio object gain and the second audio object with the applied second audio object gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Alexander Stahlmann, Reinhold Boehm, Mark C. Leddy, Karsten Linzmeier, Vinay Mathew, Simon Plain, Heiko Purnhagen, Leif Sehlström, Robin Thesing
  • Patent number: 10770082
    Abstract: There is provided an audio decoder and a method therein for transforming a digital audio signal from a first frequency domain to a second frequency domain. For each received frame of the digital audio signal, the method identifies an upper limit of the frequency range, and if the upper limit of the frequency range is below the Nyquist frequency of said frame of the digital audio signal by more than a threshold amount, the Nyquist frequency of said frame of the digital audio signal is lowered from its original value to a reduced value by removing spectral bands of said frame of the digital audio signal above the identified upper limit of the frequency range. Thereafter said frame of the digital audio signal is transformed from the first frequency domain to the second frequency domain via an intermediate time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Per Ekstrand, Robin Thesing, Lars Villemoes
  • Publication number: 20190251978
    Abstract: There is provided an audio decoder and a method therein for transforming a digital audio signal from a first frequency domain to a second frequency domain. For each received frame of the digital audio signal, the method identifies an upper limit of the frequency range, and if the upper limit of the frequency range is below the Nyquist frequency of said frame of the digital audio signal by more than a threshold amount, the Nyquist frequency of said frame of the digital audio signal is lowered from its original value to a reduced value by removing spectral bands of said frame of the digital audio signal above the identified upper limit of the frequency range. Thereafter said frame of the digital audio signal is transformed from the first frequency domain to the second frequency domain via an intermediate time domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Per Ekstrand, Robin Thesing, Lars Villemoes
  • Patent number: 10121479
    Abstract: There is provided methods and apparatuses for decoding and encoding of audio signals. In particular, a method for decoding includes receiving a waveform-coded signal having a spectral content corresponding to a subset of the frequency range above a cross-over frequency. The waveform-coded signal is interleaved with a parametric high frequency reconstruction of the audio signal above the cross-over frequency. In this way an improved reconstruction of the high frequency bands of the audio signal is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Kristofer Kjoerling, Robin Thesing, Harald Mundt, Heiko Purnhagen, Karl Jonas Roeden
  • Patent number: 9984695
    Abstract: The present document relates to the technical field of audio coding, decoding and processing. It specifically relates to methods of recovering high frequency content of an audio signal from low frequency content of the same audio signal in an efficient manner. A method for determining a first banded tonality value for a first frequency subband of an audio signal is described. The first banded tonality value is used for approximating a high frequency component of the audio signal based on a low frequency component of the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Robin Thesing, Michael Schug
  • Patent number: 9666200
    Abstract: The present document relates to the technical field of audio coding, decoding and processing. It specifically relates to methods of recovering high frequency content of an audio signal from low frequency content of the same audio signal in an efficient manner. A method for determining a first banded tonality value (311, 312) for a first frequency subband (205) of an audio signal is described. The first banded tonality value (311, 312) is used for approximating a high frequency component of the audio signal based on a low frequency component of the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Robin Thesing, Michael Schug
  • Patent number: 9514761
    Abstract: There is provided methods and apparatuses for decoding and encoding of audio signals. In particular, a method for decoding includes receiving a waveform-coded signal having a spectral content corresponding to a subset of the frequency range above a cross-over frequency. The waveform-coded signal is interleaved with a parametric high frequency reconstruction of the audio signal above the cross-over frequency. In this way an improved reconstruction of the high frequency bands of the audio signal is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Kristofer Kjoerling, Robin Thesing, Harald Mundt, Heiko Purnhagen, Karl Jonas Roeden
  • Patent number: 9508351
    Abstract: The present document relates to audio decoding and/or audio transcoding. In particular, the present document relates to a scheme for efficiently decoding a number M of audio channels from a bitstream comprising a higher number N of audio channels. In this context a method and system for merging a first and a second source set of spectral band replication (SBR) parameters to a target set of SBR parameters is described. The first and second source set comprise a first and second frequency band partitioning, respectively, which are different from one another. The first source set comprises a first set of energy related values associated with frequency bands of the first frequency band partitioning. The second source set comprises a second set of energy related values associated with frequency bands of the second frequency band partitioning. The target set comprises a target energy related value associated with an elementary frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Dobly International AB
    Inventors: Kristofer Kjoerling, Robin Thesing
  • Patent number: 9311921
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a computer readable storage medium configured with instructions for carrying out a method, and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable tangible medium to carry out actions. The method is to decode audio data that includes N.n channels to M.m decoded audio channels, including unpacking metadata and unpacking and decoding frequency domain exponent and mantissa data; determining transform coefficients from the unpacked and decoded frequency domain exponent and mantissa data; inverse transforming the frequency domain data; and in the case M<N, downmixing according to downmixing data, the downmixing carried out efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Robin Thesing, James Michael Silva, Robert Loring Andersen
  • Patent number: 9299355
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for improving a stereo audio signal of an FM stereo radio receiver (10). It is suggested to employ components of a standard HE-ACC v2 decoder (40) in such apparatus (1) to efficiently recover the stereo audio signal (L\R?) while also exhibiting good signal quality. To that end, parametric stereo parameters (15) shall be quantized and submitted to such decoder (40) together with a mono-downmix signal (25). The decoder (25) can then easily recover the parametric stereo parameters (15) by de-quantizing them via a simple lookup table, and finally creating the stereo output signal (L?R?) from the de-quantized parametric stereo parameters and the mono-downmix signal (25). The apparatus (1) further includes a parameter estimation stage (5) which may again be embodied on the basis of components of a standard HE-ACC v2 encoder (65).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Jan Mueller, Robin Thesing, Michael Beer
  • Publication number: 20160035355
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a computer readable storage medium configured with instructions for carrying out a method, and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable tangible medium to carry out actions. The method is to decode audio data that includes N.n channels to M.m decoded audio channels, including unpacking metadata and unpacking and decoding frequency domain exponent and mantissa data; determining transform coefficients from the unpacked and decoded frequency domain exponent and mantissa data; inverse transforming the frequency domain data; and in the case M<N, downmixing according to downmixing data, the downmixing carried out efficiently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Robin Thesing, James Michael Silva, Robert Loring Andersen
  • Publication number: 20150003632
    Abstract: The present document relates to the technical field of audio coding, decoding and processing. It specifically relates to methods of recovering high frequency content of an audio signal from low frequency content of the same audio signal in an efficient manner. A method for determining a first banded tonality value (311, 312) for a first frequency subband (205) of an audio signal is described. The first banded tonality value (311, 312) is used for approximating a high frequency component of the audio signal based on a low frequency component of the audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Robin Thesing, Michael Schug
  • Patent number: 8868433
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a computer readable storage medium configured with instructions for carrying out a method, and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable tangible medium to carry out actions. The method is to decode audio data that includes N.n channels to M.m decoded audio channels, including unpacking metadata and unpacking and decoding frequency domain exponent and mantissa data; determining transform coefficients from the unpacked and decoded frequency domain exponent and mantissa data; inverse transforming the frequency domain data; and in the case M<N, downmixing according to downmixing data, the downmixing carried out efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Robin Thesing, James M. Silva, Robert L. Andersen
  • Patent number: 8804971
    Abstract: A method for encoding a multichannel audio input signal, including steps of generating a downmix of low frequency components of a subset of channels of the input signal, waveform coding each channel of the downmix, thereby generating waveform coded, downmixed data, performing parametric encoding on at least some higher frequency components of each channel of the input signal, thereby generating parametrically coded data, and generating an encoded audio signal (e.g., an E-AC-3 encoded signal) indicative of the waveform coded, downmixed data and the parametrically coded data. Other aspects are methods for decoding such an encoded signal, and systems configured to perform any embodiment of the inventive method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Dolby International AB, Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Phillip A. Williams, Michael Schug, Robin Thesing