US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Sept. 15 for "Transform encoding/decoding of harmonic audio signals" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,285, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Transform encoding/decoding of harmonic audio signals" was invented by Volodya Grancharov (Solna, Sweden), Tomas Jansson Toftgard (Uppsala, Sweden), Sebastian Naslund (Solna, Sweden) and Harald Pobloth (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder for encoding frequency transform coefficients of a harmonic audio signal include the following elements: A peak locator configured to locate spectral peaks having magnitudes exceeding a predetermined frequency dependent threshold. A peak region encoder configured to encode peak regions i...