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7631119 Techniques for providing audio for synchronized playback by multiple devices  
An audio system communicates with an aggregate device that includes multiple audio devices. When providing audio data for playback, the system compensates for presentation latency differences...
7630781 Media data reproduction methods and embedded systems utilizing the same  
A media data reproduction method is implemented in an embedded system comprising a media reader, a storage device, and a converter. First, a reproduction request is received. Media data is...
7630780 Frequency expansion for synthesizer  
A method is provided for generating synthetic audio signals with a synthesizer by generating a synthesizer output signal with a low sampling rate of the synthesizer. Because of the low sampling...
7626111 Similar music search method and apparatus using music content summary  
A similar music search method, including: extracting an audio feature value from a compression zone of a music file and generating a music content summary using the extracted audio feature;...
7626110 Energy-based audio pattern recognition  
An energy-based pattern recognition algorithm receives the input frames of an audio signal and a test frame sequence and returns a best match in the audio signal to the given test frame sequence....
7620469 Method of identifying digital audio signal format  
A method of identifying file format, converting file from assumed format and bit ordering to user-definable format, dividing file into blocks, determining frequencies of occurrence in blocks,...
7620468 Control apparatus for music system comprising a plurality of equipments connected together via network, and integrated software for controlling the music system  
Control node includes: current memories provided in corresponding relation to a plurality of equipments to store, for each of the equipments, a first current data set for remote-controlling an...
7620467 Device and method for metadata management  
The present invention relates to a device and method for managing metadata. A principal object of the present invention is to provide a device and method for managing metadata by which only key...
7620410 Broadcast station synchronization method and mobile terminal  
A broadcast station synchronization method in a mobile terminal operating with a system clock different from the reference clock of a broadcast station, wherein a clock synchronized with the...
7617012 Audio signal processing system  
In a mixer system including: a plurality of mixer engines each provided with a programmable DSP; and a PC controlling operations of the respective mixer engines, the PC stores, as zone data, a...
7613533 Interactive system  
A system including a sensing device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system has (a) an article comprising: (i) a surface having a plurality of positions and a plurality of different print...
7613532 Systems and methods for improving the signal to noise ratio for audio input in a computing system  
Systems and methods for improving the signal to noise ratio for audio input in a computing system are provided. Signal to noise ratio improvements are enabled for an input audio signal by...
7613531 User aware audio playing apparatus and method  
An audio player apparatus ( 1 ) and method ( 2 ). The audio player apparatus comprises input means ( 10 ), such as buttons ( 11, 12, 13, 14 ) or soft-buttons on a touch screen, for inputting the...
7613530 Apparatus and program for setting signal processing parameter in an audio mixer  
Scene data including a set of values of a plurality of signal processing parameters are stored in a memory. Adjusting values (offset values) of the parameters stored in a buffer are each modified...
7613529 System for eliminating acoustic feedback  
A method and system is provided for eliminating acoustical feedback in a system. The method determines a parameter for at least one notch filter, adjusting the notch filter based on the parameter,...
7613311 Digital implementation of a fourth order Linkwitz-Riley network with a low cutoff frequency  
A simplified digital implementation of a fourth order Linkwitz-Riley crossover network is provided using approximations and transformations of the classical form. The approximation is particularly...
7613306 Audio encoder and audio decoder  
An audio encoder, generating a stereo signal based on a multi-channel signal, includes a downmix unit for downmixing a multi-channel signal exceeding two channels to a two-channel stereo signal, a...
7612281 Reverberation effect adding device  
A reverberation effect adding device comprising a first convolution circuit which in turn comprises FIR filters ( 80 - 1 to 80 - 4 ) and an adder (accumulator) ( 81 ) which adds outputs from the...
7610110 Graphically displaying stereo phase information  
Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for displaying visual representations of features of audio data. In general, in one aspect, a computer-implemented...
7610109 Recording and/or reproducing apparatus and recording apparatus  
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a microphone, a semiconductor memory, an operating section and a controller. An output signal from the microphone is written in the semiconductor...
7606627 Converting M channels of digital audio data packets into N channels of digital audio data  
Audio data having M channels includes a header with metadata specifying a conversion function for converting the M channels of digital audio data into N channels of data. The metadata is a string...
7606626 Speaking thermometer  
A portable self contained parameter sensing unit for sensing environmental parameters and communicating such to a user. The unit includes a housing having a transducer for conveying information to...
7606375 Method and system for automatically generating world environmental reverberation from game geometry  
Reverberation parameters for one or more positions of interest are derived from graphics data used for displaying a computer-generated environment. For each position of interest for which...
7603190 Digital recording/reproducing apparatus  
Based on a digital recorder/player taken as a basic apparatus and which accommodates a field frequency of 60 fields/sec or a frame frequency of 30 frames/sec, an apparatus is implemented to record...
7602892 Telephony annotation services  
A method and apparatus for providing a telephonic annotation services is disclosed. In one embodiment, a mobile telephone may be configured to include an annotation component used to record...
7599753 Systems and methods for running priority-based application threads on a realtime component  
Systems and methods for processing data from priority-based operating system threads within a realtime component are described. The component submits blank buffers to hardware. The component...
7598447 Methods, systems and computer program products for detecting musical notes in an audio signal  
Methods, system and/or computer program products for detection of a note include receiving an audio signal and generating a plurality of frequency domain representations of the audio signal over...
7596698 Semiconductor memory card, playback apparatus, recording apparatus, playback method, recording method, and computer-readable recording medium  
An audio stream is divided into a plurality of audio object (AOB) files that are recorded having each been encrypted using a different encryption key. At least one piece of track management...
7593782 Highly portable media device  
An improved portable media device and methods for operating a media device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the portable media device can also function as a solid-state drive for data...
7593781 Audio feedback test  
Methods and systems provide automated testing of computer facilitated audio input and output devices. A tone is converted from a digital to analog signal and is sent to a sound mixing device. At...
7592534 Music composition reproduction device and composite device including the same  
A music piece reproduction device comprises a recording section ( 12 ) for recording a plurality of music piece data each possessing a sound data file and a beat guide file containing information...
7590460 Audio signal processor  
An audio signal processor is composed of a data path unit, a mode register and a state machine unit. The data path unit applies one or more arithmetical operation to an audio signal for performing...
7590459 Stream data processing system, stream data processing method, stream data processing program, and computer readable recording medium for storing stream data processing program  
Musical sound data derived from the musical instrument ( 1 ) is outputted via a capture filter ( 21 ), and effector filter ( 22 ), a flow-rate monitoring filter ( 23 ), and a renderer filter ( 24 )...
7590251 Clip detection in PWM amplifier  
Systems and methods for detecting clipping conditions in an audio signal and processing the signal to reduce the clipping conditions. In one embodiment, a system comprises a noise shaper, a...
7590249 Object-based three-dimensional audio system and method of controlling the same  
An object-based 3-D audio system. An audio input unit receives object-based sound sources. An audio editing/producing unit converts the sound sources into 3-D audio scene information. An audio...
7587255 Software and process for play-cursor calculation  
A process and software for achieving minimal latency in digital audio playback, which includes calculating a repeatable play cursor lead and a play cursor position and writing audio data at the...
7587254 Dynamic range control and equalization of digital audio using warped processing  
This invention describes a method for adjusting the loudness and the spectral content of digital audio signals in a real-time using warped spectral filtering. A warped processing module modifies a...
7587054 Audio system based on at least second-order eigenbeams  
A microphone array-based audio system that supports representations of auditory scenes using second-order (or higher) harmonic expansions based on the audio signals generated by the microphone...
7586032 Shake responsive portable media player  
An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided which establishes a user interface for portable media players in which a user can mix, shuffle, randomize, or otherwise alter the...
7584010 Telephone handset  
An improved telephone handset for hearing-impaired persons. A passive device, in the form of an inductor wound about a highly magnetostrictive core, is connected with the speaker in the handset....
7584009 Multi-chip PWM synchronization and communication  
Systems and methods for synchronizing multiple digital audio controller chips, wherein one of the chips is designated as a master and the other chips are designated as slaves. A common line...
7584008 Digital signal processing method, learning method, apparatuses for them, and program storage medium  
An input digital signal D 10 is class-classified according to the envelope of the input digital signal D 10 , and the input digital signal D 10 is converted by the prediction method corresponding...
7582823 Method and apparatus for classifying mood of music at high speed  
A method and apparatus for classifying mood of music at high speed. The method includes: extracting a Modified Discrete Cosine Transformation-based timbre feature from a compressed domain of a...
7580765 Method of integrating audio and encoded writing medium using interactive apparatus  
A method of integrating audio and an encoded writing medium using an interactive apparatus is disclosed. The method comprises activating an audio recording mode of the interactive apparatus. The...
7580764 Interactive apparatus with recording and playback capability usable with encoded writing medium  
An interactive apparatus is disclosed. The interactive apparatus has an audio recording mode and an audio playback mode. Further, the interactive apparatus includes a writing tool for manually...
7580763 Recording apparatus for recording signal including a plurality of sound information  
A first sound signal includes a first kind of sound signals and a second kind of sound signals. Chapter numbers are added to the first sound signal for respective switching of the kind of the...
7580762 Microphone with ultrasound/audible mixing chamber to secure audio path  
Methods, microphones, and systems are provided for processing sound waves. The sound waves are detected with a portable device (such as a microphone) and an audio signal representing the sound...
7580761 Fixed-size cross-correlation computation method for audio time scale modification  
A time-domain time-scale modification method based on the synchronous overlap-and-add method consists of a generalization of the envelope-matching time-scale modification method. The...
7579546 Tempo detection apparatus and tempo-detection computer program  
A user is asked to perform tapping at beat positions by using a tapping detection section while listening to the beginning of a waveform from which beats are to be detected. When a fluctuation...
7577247 Apparatus and method for telephone, intercom, and clock  
The invention features a telephone, intercom, and clock. The telephone comprises a receiver adapted to receive a signal representing encoded first voice data; a processor comprising a media access...