US Patent Issued to JVCKENWOOD on Feb. 10 for "Bit extension processing apparatus, bit extension processing method, and bit extension processing program stored in a non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,580, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Bit extension processing apparatus, bit extension processing method, and bit extension processing program stored in a non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Sadahiro Yasura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framing processing unit converts a first digital music signal quantized with a first number of quantization bits, into frames. A difference signal calculation unit calculates a first difference signal in which a difference sample is a difference value between two adjacent samples. A flat area detection unit detects a flat area in t...