US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Oct. 27 for "Low-frequency emphasis for LPC-based coding in frequency domain" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,330, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Low-frequency emphasis for LPC-based coding in frequency domain" was invented by Stefan Doehla (Erlangen, Germany), Bernhard Grill (Lauf, Germany), Christian Helmrich (Erlangen, Germany) and Nikolaus Rettelbach (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an audio encoder including a combination of a linear predictive coding filter having a plurality of linear predictive coding coefficients and a time-frequency converter, wherein the combination is configured to filter and to convert a ...