ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,993, issued on June 23, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).
"Integration of high frequency reconstruction techniques with reduced post-processing delay" was invented by Kristofer Kjoerling (Solna, Sweden), Lars Villemoes (Jarfalla, Sweden), Heiko Purnhagen (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Per Ekstrand (Saltsjobaden, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream is disclosed. The method includes receiving the encoded audio bitstream and decoding the audio data to generate a decoded lowband audio signal. The method further includes extracting high frequency reconstruction metadata and filte...