Patents by Inventor Steven David Trautmann

Steven David Trautmann 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: 8842846
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for polarity detection. The method includes applying a band-pass filter to an impulse response of a loudspeaker, applying an exponential weighting to the band-pass filtered impulse response, wherein the exponential decay parameter is related to the higher corner frequency of the band-pass filter, finding the maximum peak in a waveform of sampled impulse responses, and detecting the connection polarity of the maximum peak as the polarity of the peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Akihiro Yonemoto, Steven David Trautmann
  • Patent number: 8275475
    Abstract: Methods, digital systems, and computer readable media are provided for estimating change of amplitude and frequency in a digital audio signal by transforming a frame of the digital audio signal to the frequency domain, locating a frequency peak in the transformed frame, determining an interpolated peak of the located frequency peak, computing inner products of a portion of the transformed frame about the interpolated peak with a plurality of test signals, and estimating change of amplitude and change of frequency for the frequency peak from results of the inner products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven David Trautmann, Atsuhiro Sakurai, Ryo Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 8121299
    Abstract: Methods, digital systems, and computer readable media are provided for detection of music in an audio signal. Music is detected by partitioning the audio signal into overlapping frames, determining a fundamental frequency of a frame in the overlapping frames, including the fundamental frequency of the frame in a histogram of fundamental frequency values of frames occurring in the audio signal prior to the frame, and indicating that music is present in the audio signal when a number of occurrences of a fundamental frequency value in the histogram exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Sakurai, Steven David Trautmann
  • Patent number: 8085951
    Abstract: Methods, digital systems, and computer readable media are provided for determining a gain reduction parameter level for loudspeaker equalization by determining a noise score, an equalization effectiveness score, and an equalization non-effectiveness score for a candidate gain reduction parameter level, determining a composite quality score using the three scores, and designing a compensating filter for the loudspeaker using the candidate gain reduction parameter level if the composite quality score is better than composite quality scores of all other candidate gain reduction parameter levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven David Trautmann, Akihiro Yonemoto, Atsuhiro Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8085940
    Abstract: Rebalancing of an audio signal refers to achieving a balance of perceived loudness, typically of right and left channels, given an unbalanced input. A flexible method to automatically rebalance an audio input signal is robust against noise in extreme cases through the individual channels combined in various ways as a function of the loudness ratio between input channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven David Trautmann, Atsuhiro Sakurai, Ryo Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 8065140
    Abstract: Methods, digital systems, and computer readable media are provided for determining a predominant fundamental frequency of a frame of an audio signal by finding a maximum absolute signal value in history data for the frame, determining a number of bits for downshifting based on the maximum absolute signal value, computing autocorrelations for the frame using signal values downshifted by the number of bits, and determining the predominant fundamental frequency using the computed autocorrelations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Sakurai, Steven David Trautmann
  • Publication number: 20100246838
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for enhancing bass management selection. The method includes retrieving a filter response for at least one filter pair, determining expected speaker and woofer spectra, calculating optimal parameters utilizing the retrieved filter response and the determined spectra, measuring flatness to determine if the result is optimal, and utilizing the determined spectra with optimal result in selecting a bass management filters for each speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Steven David Trautmann, Akihiro Yonemoto
  • Publication number: 20100239106
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for enhancing cutoff detection of a loudspeaker. The method comprising retrieving a loudspeaker model cutoff and model error, generating a probability distribution of the cutoff frequency based on the retrieved models, and utilizing the generated probability distribution to enhance the detection of the cutoff of the loudspeaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Steven David TRAUTMANN, Akihiro YONEMOTO, Hiroshi TAKAOKA
  • Publication number: 20100239097
    Abstract: Methods, digital systems, and computer readable media are provided for determining a gain reduction parameter level for loudspeaker equalization by determining a noise score, an equalization effectiveness score, and an equalization non-effectiveness score for a candidate gain reduction parameter level, determining a composite quality score using the three scores, and designing a compensating filter for the loudspeaker using the candidate gain reduction parameter level if the composite quality score is better than composite quality scores of all other candidate gain reduction parameter levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: Steven David Trautmann, Akihiro Yonemoto, Atsuhiro Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20100239099
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for polarity detection. The method includes applying a band-pass filter to an impulse response of a loudspeaker, applying an exponential weighting to the band-pass filtered impulse response, wherein the exponential decay parameter is related to the higher corner frequency of the band-pass filter, finding the maximum peak in a waveform of sampled impulse responses, and detecting the connection polarity of the maximum peak as the polarity of the peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Akihiro YONEMOTO, Steven David TRAUTMANN
  • Patent number: 7715575
    Abstract: Audio loudspeaker and headphone virtualizers and methods use room impulse responses with modified individual head-related transfer functions prior to superposition including middle truncation; and perform convolutions in the frequency domain with zero-padded sections to avoid circular convolution overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Sakurai, Steven David Trautmann
  • Publication number: 20090063138
    Abstract: Methods, digital systems, and computer readable media are provided for determining a predominant fundamental frequency of a frame of an audio signal by finding a maximum absolute signal value in history data for the frame, determining a number of bits for downshifting based on the maximum absolute signal value, computing autocorrelations for the frame using signal values downshifted by the number of bits, and determining the predominant fundamental frequency using the computed autocorrelations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Sakurai, Steven David Trautmann
  • Publication number: 20090060211
    Abstract: Methods, digital systems, and computer readable media are provided for detection of music in an audio signal. Music is detected by partitioning the audio signal into overlapping frames, determining a fundamental frequency of a frame in the overlapping frames, including the fundamental frequency of the frame in a histogram of fundamental frequency values of frames occurring in the audio signal prior to the frame, and indicating that music is present in the audio signal when a number of occurrences of a fundamental frequency value in the histogram exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Sakurai, Steven David Trautmann
  • Publication number: 20090060203
    Abstract: Rebalancing of an audio signal refers to achieving a balance of perceived loudness, typically of right and left channels, given an unbalanced input. A flexible method to automatically rebalance an audio input signal is robust against noise in extreme cases through the individual channels combined in various ways as a function of the loudness ratio between input channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Steven David Trautmann, Atsuhiro Sakurai, Ryo Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20090062945
    Abstract: Methods, digital systems, and computer readable media are provided for estimating change of amplitude and frequency in a digital audio signal by transforming a frame of the digital audio signal to the frequency domain, locating a frequency peak in the transformed frame, determining an interpolated peak of the located frequency peak, computing inner products of a portion of the transformed frame about the interpolated peak with a plurality of test signals, and estimating change of amplitude and change of frequency for the frequency peak from results of the inner products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Steven David Trautmann, Atsuhiro Sakurai, Ryo Tsutsui