Variable Decoder Patents (Class 381/22)
  • Patent number: 10862446
    Abstract: Systems and methods for limiting volume in an audio playback device using a feedback controller are disclosed herein. In one example, a gain stage modulates gain of an audio signal based in part on feedback from a downstream limiter. The gain stage receives a first audio signal as well as a feedback signal from the feedback controller. Based at least in part on the feedback signal from the feedback controller, the gain stage modulates a gain of the first audio signal to provide a second audio signal. The second audio signal is delivered to the limiter, which limits the second audio signal to produce an output signal. The output signal is played back via a transducer. The feedback controller receives a gain reduction value from the limiter and determines a feedback signal to provide to the gain stage upstream of the limiter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventor: Aurelio Ramos
  • Patent number: 10777208
    Abstract: A schematic block diagram of an audio encoder for encoding a multichannel audio signal is shown. The audio encoder includes a linear prediction domain encoder, a frequency domain encoder, and a controller for switching between the linear prediction domain encoder and the frequency domain encoder. The controller is configured such that a portion of the multichannel signal is represented either by an encoded frame of the linear prediction domain encoder or by an encoded frame of the frequency domain encoder. The linear prediction domain encoder includes a downmixer for downmixing the multichannel signal to obtain a downmixed signal. The linear prediction domain encoder further includes a linear prediction domain core encoder for encoding the downmix signal and furthermore, the linear prediction domain encoder includes a first joint multichannel encoder for generating first multichannel information from the multichannel signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Sascha Disch, Guillaume Fuchs, Emmanuel Ravelli, Christian Neukam, Konstantin Schmidt, Conrad Benndorf, Andreas Niedermeier, Benjamin Schubert, Ralf Geiger
  • Patent number: 10757521
    Abstract: A stereo parameter conditioner performs a conditioning operation on a first value of a stereo parameter and a second value of the stereo parameter to generate a conditioned value of the stereo parameter. The first value is associated with a first frequency range, and the second value is associated with a second frequency range. The conditioned value is associated with a particular frequency range that is a subset of the first frequency range or a subset of the second frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Venkatraman Atti
  • Patent number: 10705793
    Abstract: A method is provided for exchanging data between a user device and an audio output device over a wireless link. A user device detects that a trigger event for initializing a low latency mode has occurred at the user device, the low latency mode configured to cause the audio output device to reduce a size of a render buffer to be used for rendering audio data. In response to the detecting, the user device transmits an indication to the audio output device to initialize the low latency mode, the indication causing the audio output device to reduce the size of the render buffer to be used for rendering the audio data. The user device then transmits the audio data to the audio output device over the wireless link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: BOSE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Douglas Warren Young
  • Patent number: 10687164
    Abstract: A method implemented by a processing device for processing an ambisonic content including a plurality of ambisonic components of a plurality of orders defining a succession of ambisonic channels in each of which an ambisonic component is represented. The method includes: frequency filtering of the ambisonic components in a plurality of frequency bands, compiling an ambisonic decoding matrix, processing the ambisonic decoding matrix in order to extract, by matrix dimension reduction, a plurality of ambisonic decoding sub-matrices each associated with an ambisonic order and a frequency band selected for this ambisonic order, respective applications of the decoding sub-matrices to the ambisonic components in each selected frequency band, and a reconstruction, band by band, of the results of said respective applications, in order to deliver a plurality of decoded signals, each associated with a sound source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Mathieu Baque, Alexandre Guerin
  • Patent number: 10672409
    Abstract: A decoding device includes: a separating unit separating first encoded data, a spectrum including a low-band spectrum of audio signals having been encoded, and second encoded data, a high-band spectrum of a higher band having been encoded, based on the first encoded data; a first decoding unit decoding the first encoded data and generating a first decoded spectrum; a first amplitude normalizer dividing amplitude of the first decoded spectrum into sub-bands, normalizing the spectrum of each sub-band by the largest amplitude of the first decoded spectrum within each sub-band, and generating a normalized spectrum; an addition unit adding noise spectrum to the normalized spectrum and generating a noise-added normalized spectrum; a second decoding unit decoding the second encoded data using the noise-added normalized spectrum, and generating a second noise-added spectrum; and a converter performing time-frequency conversion regarding a spectrum coupled based on the first decoded spectrum and second noise-added spe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Takuya Kawashima, Hiroyuki Ehara
  • Patent number: 10659906
    Abstract: An example audio decoding device includes processing circuitry and a memory device coupled to the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive, in a bitstream, encoded representations of audio objects of a three-dimensional (3D) soundfield, to receive metadata associated with the bitstream, to obtain, from the received metadata, one or more transmission factors associated with one or more of the audio objects, and to apply the transmission factors to the one or more audio objects to obtain parallax-adjusted audio objects of the 3D soundfield. The memory device is configured to store at least a portion of the received bitstream, the received metadata, or the parallax-adjusted audio objects of the 3D soundfield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Moo Young Kim, Nils Günther Peters, Dipanjan Sen
  • Patent number: 10650835
    Abstract: The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis, multi-channel surround, or stereo signals after decoding the source signals. The proposed technique offers significant coding gain when jointly coding the source signals, compared to separately coding them, even when no redundancy is present between the source signals. This is possible by considering statistical properties of the source signals, the properties of mixing techniques, and spatial hearing. The sum of the source signals is transmitted plus the statistical properties of the source signals which mostly determine the perceptually important spatial cues of the final mixed audio channels. Source signals are recovered at the receiver such that their statistical properties approximate the corresponding properties of the original source signals. Subjective evaluations indicate that high audio quality is achieved by the proposed scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventor: Christof Faller
  • Patent number: 10645515
    Abstract: Disclosed are a multi-channel audio signal processing method and a multi-channel audio signal processing apparatus. The multi-channel audio signal processing method may generate N channel output signals from N/2 channel downmix signals based on an N-N/2-N structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon Beack, Jeong Il Seo, Jong Mo Sung, Tae Jin Lee, Dae Young Jang, Jin Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 10614821
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to apparatus and methods for decoding Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) audio signals. HOA audio signals may be decompressed based on perceptual decoding to determine at least an HOA representation corresponding to the HOA audio signals. A rotated transform may be determined based on a rotation of a spherical sample grid. A rotated HOA representation may be determined based on the rotated transform and the HOA representation. The rotated HOA representation may be rendered to output to a loudspeaker setup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Johannes Boehm, Sven Kordon, Alexander Krueger, Peter Jax
  • Patent number: 10609506
    Abstract: Improved tools for authoring and rendering audio reproduction data are provided. Some such authoring tools allow audio reproduction data to be generalized for a wide variety of reproduction environments. Audio reproduction data may be authored by creating metadata for audio objects. The metadata may be created with reference to speaker zones. During the rendering process, the audio reproduction data may be reproduced according to the reproduction speaker layout of a particular reproduction environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Nicolas R. Tsingos, Charles Q. Robinson, Jurgen W. Scharpf
  • Patent number: 10600429
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, devices and computer program products for encoding and decoding a stereo audio signal based on an input signal. According to the disclosure, a hybrid approach of using both parametric stereo coding and a discrete representation of the stereo audio signal is used which may improve the quality of the encoded and decoded audio for certain bitrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Heiko Purnhagen, Kristofer Kjoerling
  • Patent number: 10593343
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding a surround audio signal includes a Bitstream De-multiplexer for unpacking a bitstream into spatial parameters and core parameters, a set of core decoders for decoding the core parameters into a set of core signals, a matrix derivation unit for deriving the rendering matrix from the spatial parameters and playback speaker layout information, and a renderer for rendering of the decoded core signals to playback signals using the rendering matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Zongxian Liu, Naoya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10580419
    Abstract: An encoder and an encoding method for a multi-channel signal, and a decoder and a decoding method for a multi-channel signal are disclosed. A multi-channel signal may be efficiently processed by consecutive downmixing or upmixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon Beack, Tae Jin Lee, Jong Mo Sung, Jeong Il Seo, Kyeong Ok Kang, Dae Young Jang, Jin Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 10553223
    Abstract: A method for parametric encoding of a multi-channel digital audio signal. The method includes encoding a mono signal from channel-reduction processing applied to the multi-channel signal and encoding spatialisation information of the multi-channel signal. The channel-reduction processing includes the following steps, implemented for each spectral unit of the multi-channel signal: extracting at least one indicator characterizing the channels of the multi-channel digital audio signal; selecting, from a set of channel-reduction processing modes, a channel-reduction processing mode in accordance with the value of the at least one indicator characterizing the channels of the multi-channel audio signal. Also provides are a corresponding encoding device and a processing method which includes the channel-reduction processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Bertrand Fatus, Stephane Ragot
  • Patent number: 10547960
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an audio processing apparatus capable of downmixing 7.1-ch audio data to 2-ch audio data. A coefficient for downmixing 7.1-ch audio data to 2-ch audio data is set from a coefficient for downmixing 7.1-ch audio data to 5.1-ch audio data specified by a Moving Picture Experts Group 4 (MPEG4) audio standard and a coefficient for downmixing 5.1-ch audio data to 2-ch audio data specified by the standard, and stored in a 2-ch downmixing coefficient unit 22. A 2-ch downmixing unit 21 downmixes 7.1-ch audio data to 2-ch audio data using a coefficient stored in the 2-ch downmixing coefficient unit 22. The present technology can be applied to an audio processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji Tokunaga, Hiroyuki Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 10529344
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing an encoded audio signal having a plurality of downmix signals associated with a plurality of input audio objects and object parameters E. The apparatus includes a grouper configured to group the downmix signals into groups of downmix signals associated with a set of input audio objects. The apparatus includes a processor configured to perform at least one processing step individually on the object parameters Ek of each set of input audio objects in order to provide group results. Further, there is a combiner configured to combine the group results or processed group results in order to provide a decoded audio signal. The grouper is configured to group the downmix signals so that each input audio object belongs to just one set of input audio objects. The invention also refers to a corresponding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Adrian Murtaza, Jouni Paulus, Harald Fuchs, Roberta Camilleri, Leon Terentiv, Sascha Disch, Juergen Herre, Oliver Hellmuth
  • Patent number: 10529342
    Abstract: An encoding method for a multi-channel audio signal, an encoding apparatus for performing the encoding method, and a decoding method for a multi-channel audio signal and a decoding apparatus for performing the decoding method are disclosed. A method and apparatus of bypassing an MPEG Surround (MPS) standard operation and using an arbitrary tree when a number of audio signals of N channels exceeds a channel number defined in an MPS standard, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon Beack, Jeong II Seo, Jong Mo Sung, Tae Jin Lee, Jin Soo Choi
  • Patent number: 10522157
    Abstract: A method and system are implemented in a stereo sound signal encoding system for time domain down mixing right and left channels of an input stereo sound signal into primary and secondary channels. Correlation of the primary and secondary channels of previous frames is determined, and an out-of-phase condition of the left and right channels is detected based on the correlation of the primary and secondary channels of the previous frames. The left and right channels are time domain down mixed, as a function of the detection, to produce the primary and secondary channels using a factor ?, wherein the factor ? determines respective contributions of the left and right channels upon production of the primary and secondary channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: VOICEAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tommy Vaillancourt, Milan Jelinek
  • Patent number: 10469972
    Abstract: A multi-channel decoder for generating a binaural signal from a downmix signal using upmix rule information on an energy-error introducing upmix rule for calculating a gain factor based on the upmix rule information and characteristics of head related transfer function based filters corresponding to upmix channels. The one or more gain factors are used by a filter processor for filtering the downmix signal so that an energy corrected binaural signal having a left binaural channel and a right binaural channel is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventor: Lars Villemoes
  • Patent number: 10468038
    Abstract: A method is described which decodes a downmix matrix for mapping a plurality of input channels of audio content to a plurality of output channels, the input and output channels being associated with respective speakers at predetermined positions relative to a listener position, wherein the downmix matrix is encoded by exploiting the symmetry of speaker pairs of the plurality of input channels and the symmetry of speaker pairs of the plurality of output channels. Encoded information representing the encoded downmix matrix is received and decoded for obtaining the decoded downmix matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Florin Ghido, Achim Kuntz, Bernhard Grill
  • Patent number: 10453464
    Abstract: Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to signal processing. A method for decomposing a plurality of audio signals from at least two different channels is disclosed. The method obtains a set of components that are weakly correlated wherein the set of components generated based on the plurality of audio signals. The method extract a feature from the set of components and determining determines a set of gains associated with the set of components at least in part based on the extracted feature. Each of the gains indicate a proportion of a diffuse part in the associated component and decompose the plurality of audio signals by applying the set of gains to the set of components. Corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Lie Lu
  • Patent number: 10433090
    Abstract: Decoding of Ambisonics representations for a stereo loudspeaker setup is known for first-order Ambisonics audio signals. But such first-order Ambisonics approaches have either high negative side lobes or poor localization in the frontal region. The invention deals with the processing for stereo decoders for higher-order Ambisonics HOA. The desired panning functions can be derived from a panning law for placement of virtual sources between the loudspeakers. For each loudspeaker a desired panning function for all possible input directions at sampling points is defined. The panning functions are approximated by circular harmonic functions, and with increasing Ambisonics order the desired panning functions are matched with decreasing error. For the frontal region between the loudspeakers, a panning law like the tangent law or vector base amplitude panning (VBAP) are used. For the rear directions panning functions with a slight attenuation of sounds from these directions are defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Florian Keiler, Johannes Boehm
  • Patent number: 10433096
    Abstract: A method including, during a free-viewpoint rendering to a user, where the free-viewpoint rendering comprises rendering of an audio object, and during relative movement between a location of the user and the audio object in the free-viewpoint rendering, detecting a locational conflict abnormality between the audio object and the location of the user; and based upon the detecting of the locational conflict abnormality, changing the rendering of the audio object, where the changing is based upon at least one predetermined abnormality modification parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Lasse Juhani Laaksonen
  • Patent number: 10410098
    Abstract: One embodiment provides for a compute apparatus to perform machine learning operations, the apparatus comprising a decode unit to decode a single instruction into a decoded instruction that specifies multiple operands including an input value and a quantized weight value associated with a neural network and an arithmetic logic unit including a barrel shifter, an adder, and an accumulator register, wherein to execute the decoded instruction, the barrel shifter is to shift the input value by the quantized weight value to generate a shifted input value and the adder is to add the shifted input value to a value stored in the accumulator register and update the value stored in the accumulator register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Nealis, Anbang Yao, Xiaoming Chen, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Balaji Vembu, Nicolas C. Galoppo Von Borries, Rajkishore Barik, Tsung-Han Lin, Kamal Sinha
  • Patent number: 10412522
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described for inserting audio channels into descriptions of soundfields. A device comprising a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The processor may be configured to obtain an audio channel separate from a higher-order ambisonic representation of a soundfield. The processor may further be configured to insert the audio channel at a spatial location within the soundfield such that the audio channel is able to be extracted from the soundfield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Dipanjan Sen, Nils Günther Peters
  • Patent number: 10405126
    Abstract: An example device includes a memory device, and a processor coupled to the memory device. The memory is configured to store a plurality of representations of a soundfield. The processor is configured to track a steering angle provided by one or more angles associated with the device, and to select, based on the steering angle, a representation of the soundfield from the plurality of representations stored to the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Nils Günther Peters, Dipanjan Sen, Thomas Stockhammer
  • Patent number: 10395661
    Abstract: A schematic block diagram of an audio encoder for encoding a multichannel audio signal is shown. The audio encoder includes a linear prediction domain encoder, a frequency domain encoder, and a controller for switching between the linear prediction domain encoder and the frequency domain encoder. The controller is configured such that a portion of the multichannel signal is represented either by an encoded frame of the linear prediction domain encoder or by an encoded frame of the frequency domain encoder. The linear prediction domain encoder includes a downmixer for downmixing the multichannel signal to obtain a downmixed signal. The linear prediction domain encoder further includes a linear prediction domain core encoder for encoding the downmix signal and furthermore, the linear prediction domain encoder includes a first joint multichannel encoder for generating first multichannel information from the multichannel signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Sascha Disch, Guillaume Fuchs, Emmanuel Ravelli, Christian Neukam, Konstantin Schmidt, Conrad Benndorf, Andreas Niedermeier, Benjamin Schubert, Ralf Geiger
  • Patent number: 10347259
    Abstract: An apparatus for downmixing three or more audio input channels to obtain two or more audio output channels is provided. The apparatus includes a receiving interface for receiving the three or more audio input channels and for receiving side information. Moreover, the apparatus includes a downmixer for downmixing the three or more audio input channels depending on the side information to obtain the two or more audio output channels. The number of the audio output channels is smaller than the number of the audio input channels. The side information indicates a characteristic of at least one of the three or more audio input channels, or a characteristic of one or more sound waves recorded within the one or more audio input channels, or a characteristic of one or more sound sources which emitted one or more sound waves recorded within the one or more audio input channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER_GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Arne Borsum, Stephan Schreiner, Harald Fuchs, Michael Kratz, Bernhard Grill, Sebastian Scharrer
  • Patent number: 10341802
    Abstract: Currently there is no simple and satisfying way to create 3D audio from existing 2D content. The conversion from 2D to 3D sound should spatially redistribute the sound from existing channels. From a multi-channel 2D audio input signal (x(k)(t)) a 3D sound representation is generated which includes an HOA representation Formula (I) and channel object signals Formula (II) scaled from channels of the 2D audio input signal. Additional signals Formula (III) placed in the 3D space are generated by scaling (21, 222; 41, 422; Formula (IV)) channels from the 2D audio input signal and by decorrelating (24, 25; 44, 45, 451; Formula (V)) a scaled version of a mix of channels from the 2D audio input signal, whereby spatial positions for the additional signals are predetermined. The additional signals Formula (III) are converted (27; 47) to a HOA representation Formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Krueger, Johannes Boehm, Sven Kordon, Xiaoming Chen, Stefan Abeling, Florian Keiler, Holger Kropp
  • Patent number: 10339940
    Abstract: A stereo sound encoding method and system for encoding left and right channels of a stereo sound signal, down mix the left and right channels of the stereo sound signal to produce primary and secondary channels, encode the primary channel, and encode the secondary channel. Encoding the secondary channel comprises analyzing coherence between coding parameters calculated during the secondary channel encoding and coding parameters calculated during the primary channel encoding to decide if the coding parameters calculated during the primary channel encoding are sufficiently close to the coding parameters calculated during the secondary channel encoding to be re-used during the secondary channel encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: VoiceAge Corporation
    Inventors: Tommy Vaillancourt, Milan Jelinek
  • Patent number: 10325606
    Abstract: A stereo sound signal encoding method and system for time domain down mixing right and left channels of an input stereo sound signal into primary and secondary channels, determine normalised correlations of the left channel and right channel in relation to a monophonic signal version of the sound. A long-term correlation difference is determined on the basis of the normalised correlation of the left channel and the normalised correlation of the right channel. The long-term correlation difference is converted into a factor ?, and the left and right channels are mixed to produce the primary and secondary channels using the factor ?, wherein the factor ? determines respective contributions of the left and right channels upon production of the primary and secondary channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: VoiceAge Corporation
    Inventors: Tommy Vaillancourt, Milan Jelinek
  • Patent number: 10312920
    Abstract: A data recovery circuit provides compensation for baseline wander exhibited by a data signal. An adaptive equalizer generates a recovered data signal from a data input. A level shifter and low-pass filter provide a compensation signal as a function of the recovered data signal. An adaptation engine adjusts the level of the compensation signal to compensate for baseline wander. The adaptive equalizer generates the recovered data signal as a function of the data input and the compensation signal, thereby providing accurate recovery of the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Cavium, LLC
    Inventors: Ethan Crain, Lu Wang
  • Patent number: 10304469
    Abstract: A method for encoding multi-channel HOA audio signals for noise reduction comprises steps of decorrelating the channels using an inverse adaptive DSHT, the inverse adaptive DSHT comprising a rotation operation and an inverse DSHT, with the rotation operation rotating the spatial sampling grid of the iDSHT, perceptually encoding each of the decorrelated channels, encoding rotation information, the rotation information comprising parameters defining said rotation operation, and transmitting or storing the perceptually encoded audio channels and the encoded rotation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Johannes Boehm, Sven Kordon, Alexander Krüger, Peter Jax
  • Patent number: 10264386
    Abstract: Techniques of rendering high-order ambisonics (HOAs) involve adjusting the weights of a spherical harmonic (SH) expansion of a sound field based on weights of a SH expansion of a direction emphasis function that multiplies a monopole density that, when its product with a Green's function is integrated over the unit sphere, produces the sound field. An advantage of the improved techniques lies in the ability to better reproduce directionality of a given sound field in a computationally manner, whether the sound field is a temporal function or a time-frequency function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Willem Bastiaan Kleijn
  • Patent number: 10257636
    Abstract: Described herein is a method (30) of rendering an audio signal (17) for playback in an audio environment (27) defined by a target loudspeaker system (23), the audio signal (17) including audio data relating to an audio object and associated position data indicative of an object position. Method (30) includes the initial step (31) of receiving the audio signal (17). At step (32) loudspeaker layout data for the target loudspeaker system (23) is received. At step (33) control data is received that is indicative of a position modification to be applied to the audio object in the audio environment (27). At step (38) in response to the position data, loudspeaker layout data and control data, rendering modification data is generated. Finally, at step (39) the audio signal (17) is rendered with the rendering modification data to output the audio signal (17) with the audio object at a modified object position that is between loudspeakers within the audio environment (27).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Dirk Jeroen Breebaart, Antonio Mateos Sole, Heiko Purnhagen, Nicolas R. Tsingos
  • Patent number: 10244343
    Abstract: Improved tools for authoring and rendering audio reproduction data are provided. Some such authoring tools allow audio reproduction data to be generalized for a wide variety of reproduction environments. Audio reproduction data may be authored by creating metadata for audio objects. The metadata may be created with reference to speaker zones. During the rendering process, the audio reproduction data may be reproduced according to the reproduction speaker layout of a particular reproduction environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Nicolas R. Tsingos, Charles Q. Robinson, Jurgen W. Scharpf
  • Patent number: 10236003
    Abstract: When compressing an HOA data frame representation, a gain control (15, 151) is applied for each channel signal before it is perceptually encoded (16). The gain values are transferred in a differential manner as side information. However, for starting decoding of such streamed compressed HOA data frame representation absolute gain values are required, which should be coded with a minimum number of bits. For determining such lowest integer number (?e) of bits the HOA data frame representation (C(k)) is rendered in spatial domain to virtual loudspeaker signals lying on a unit sphere, followed by normalization of the HOA data frame representation (C(k)). Then the lowest integer number of bits is set to: (AA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Sven Kordon, Alexander Krueger
  • Patent number: 10225675
    Abstract: Provided are an encoding method of a multichannel signal, an encoding apparatus to perform the encoding method, a multichannel signal processing method, and a decoding apparatus to perform the decoding method. The decoding method may include identifying an N/2-channel downmix signal derived from an N-channel input signal; and generating an N-channel output signal from the identified N/2-channel downmix signal using a plurality of one-to-two (OTT) boxes. If a low frequency effect (LFE) channel is absent in the output signal, the number of OTT boxes may be equal to N/2 where N/2 denotes the number of channels of the downmix signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon Beack, Jeong Il Seo, Jong Mo Sung, Tae Jin Lee, Dae Young Jang, Jin Soo Choi
  • Patent number: 10217467
    Abstract: A device for processing audio signals includes an interchannel temporal mismatch analyzer, an interchannel phase difference (IPD) mode selector and an IPD estimator. The interchannel temporal mismatch analyzer is configured to determine an interchannel temporal mismatch value indicative of a temporal misalignment between a first audio signal and a second audio signal. The IPD mode selector is configured to select an IPD mode based on at least the interchannel temporal mismatch value. The IPD estimator is configured to determine IPD values based on the first audio signal and the second audio signal. The IPD values have a resolution corresponding to the selected IPD mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Inventors: Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Venkatraman Atti
  • Patent number: 10194257
    Abstract: Encoding of Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) signals commonly results in high data rates. For data rate reduction, a method (100) for encoding direction information for frames of an input HOA signal comprises determining (s101) active candidate directions (MDIR(k)) among predefined global directions having global direction indices, dividing (s102) the input HOA signal into frequency subbands (f1 . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Krueger, Sven Kordon
  • Patent number: 10186274
    Abstract: A decoder for generating a frequency enhanced audio signal, includes: a feature extractor for extracting a feature from a core signal; a side information extractor for extracting a selection side information associated with the core signal; a parameter generator for generating a parametric representation for estimating a spectral range of the frequency enhanced audio signal not defined by the core signal, wherein the parameter generator is configured to provide a number of parametric representation alternatives in response to the feature, and wherein the parameter generator is configured to select one of the parametric representation alternatives as the parametric representation in response to the selection side information; and a signal estimator for estimating the frequency enhanced audio signal using the parametric representation selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Frederik Nagel, Sascha Disch, Andreas Niedermeier
  • Patent number: 10136227
    Abstract: A method of processing sound in a hearing aid (100, 300, 400) comprises separating the input transducer signal into a periodic and aperiodic signal for further processing in the hearing aid (100, 300, 400). The invention also provides a hearing aid (100, 300, 400) adapted for carrying out such a method of sound processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Widex A/S
    Inventors: Kristian Timm Andersen, Mike Lind Rank, Thomas Bo Elmedyb
  • Patent number: 10122956
    Abstract: A camera system capable of capturing images of an event in a dynamic environment includes two microphones configured to capture stereo audio of the event. The microphones are on orthogonal surfaces of the camera system. Because the microphones are on orthogonal surfaces of the camera system, the camera body can impact the spatial response of the two recorded audio channels differently, leading to degraded stereo recreation if standard beam forming techniques are used. The camera system includes tuned beam forming techniques to generate multi-channel audio that more accurately recreates the stereo audio by compensating for the shape of the camera system and the orientation of microphones on the camera system. The tuned beam forming techniques include optimizing a set of beam forming parameters, as a function of frequency, based on the true spatial response of the recorded audio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhinian Jing, Joyce Rosenbaum
  • Patent number: 10123146
    Abstract: A multi-channel decoder for generating a binaural signal from a downmix signal using upmix rule information on an energy-error introducing upmix rule for calculating a gain factor based on the upmix rule information and characteristics of head related transfer function based filters corresponding to upmix channels. The one or more gain factors are used by a filter processor for filtering the downmix signal so that an energy corrected binaural signal having a left binaural channel and a right binaural channel is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventor: Lars Villemoes
  • Patent number: 10115403
    Abstract: A device includes a processor, a memory, and a combiner. The processor is configured to receive a first combined frame and a second combined frame corresponding to a multi-channel audio signal. The memory is configured to store first lookahead portion data of the first combined frame. The first lookahead portion data is received from the processor. The combiner is configured to generate a frame at a multi-channel encoder. The frame includes a subset of samples of the first lookahead portion data, one or more samples of updated sample data corresponding to the first combined frame, and a group of samples of second combined frame data corresponding to the second combined frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Venkatraman Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam
  • Patent number: 10097940
    Abstract: A multi-channel decoder for generating a binaural signal from a downmix signal using upmix rule information on an energy-error introducing upmix rule for calculating a gain factor based on the upmix rule information and characteristics of head related transfer function based filters corresponding to upmix channels. The one or more gain factors are used by a filter processor for filtering the downmix signal so that an energy corrected binaural signal having a left binaural channel and a right binaural channel is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventor: Lars Villemoes
  • Patent number: 10097941
    Abstract: A multi-channel decoder for generating a binaural signal from a downmix signal using upmix rule information on an energy-error introducing upmix rule for calculating a gain factor based on the upmix rule information and characteristics of head related transfer function based filters corresponding to upmix channels. The one or more gain factors are used by a filter processor for filtering the downmix signal so that an energy corrected binaural signal having a left binaural channel and a right binaural channel is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventor: Lars Villemoes
  • Patent number: 10091603
    Abstract: A multi-channel decoder for generating a binaural signal from a downmix signal using upmix rule information on an energy-error introducing upmix rule for calculating a gain factor based on the upmix rule information and characteristics of head related transfer function based filters corresponding to upmix channels. The one or more gain factors are used by a filter processor for filtering the downmix signal so that an energy corrected binaural signal having a left binaural channel and a right binaural channel is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventor: Lars Villemoes
  • Patent number: 10085105
    Abstract: A multi-channel decoder for generating a binaural signal from a downmix signal using upmix rule information on an energy-error introducing upmix rule for calculating a gain factor based on the upmix rule information and characteristics of head related transfer function based filters corresponding to upmix channels. The one or more gain factors are used by a filter processor for filtering the downmix signal so that an energy corrected binaural signal having a left binaural channel and a right binaural channel is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventor: Lars Villemoes