Patents by Inventor Yuan-An Kao

Yuan-An Kao 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: 5832442
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of modification of parameters of audio signals by dividing a digital signal converted from an original analog signal into sound frames, modifying a pitch and a playing rate of the digital signal within a frame and subsequent successive splicing a last modified frame with a first non-modified frame and calculating the mean absolute error to define the best splicing point in terms of producing minimal or no audible noise such that various sections of sound signals can be spliced together to achieve pitch and playing rate modification.An apparatus is also disclosed for implementing the method, the apparatus comprising input and output amplifiers, a low pass filter at the input and a low pass filter at the output, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, and a pitch shifting processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Electronics Research & Service Organization
    Inventors: Gang-Janp Lin, Sau-Gee Chen, Der-Chwan Wu, Yuan-An Kao, Yen-Hui Wang