US Patent Issued to VOICEAGE on May 19 for "Method and device for limiting of output synthesis distortion in a sound codec" (Czech Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,888, issued on May 19, was assigned to VOICEAGE Corp. (Town Of Mount Royal, Canada).

"Method and device for limiting of output synthesis distortion in a sound codec" was invented by Vaclav Eksler (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-stage distortion limiter and method for limiting distortion in a sound signal, for example an output sound signal synthesis from a sound signal decoder. In a first stage, a level detector detects an amplitude value of the sound signal and computes a control gain using the detected amplitude value, and an attenuator reduces the level of the sound signal using the control gain. In a sec...