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Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

2,583Patents
2,456Active
2,583Granted
65Portfolio score

Filing activity: Jul 13, 1979 → Feb 10, 2025 · 228 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6728317B1 Moving image compression quality enhancement using displacement filters with negative lobes Electricity 491 Expired
US5394473A Adaptive-block-length, adaptive-transforn, and adaptive-window transform coder, decoder, and encoder/decoder for high-quality audio Physics 408 Expired
US6021386A Coding method and apparatus for multiple channels of audio information representing three-dimensional sound fields Electricity 396 Expired
US5583962A Encoder/decoder for multidimensional sound fields Electricity 275 Expired
USD566722S1 Display panel with icon General 238 Expired
US5890125A Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding multiple audio channels at low bit rates using adaptive selection of encoding method Electricity 231 Expired
US5579404A Digital audio limiter Electricity 226 Expired
US5632005A Encoder/decoder for multidimensional sound fields Electricity 221 Expired
US8242426B2 Electronic camera having multiple sensors for capturing high dynamic range images and related methods Electricity 203 Active
US6957350B1 Encrypted and watermarked temporal and resolution layering in advanced television Electricity 190 Expired
US6816552B2 Interpolation of video compression frames Electricity 187 Expired
US5109417A Low bit rate transform coder, decoder, and encoder/decoder for high-quality audio Physics 175 Expired
US5633981A Method and apparatus for adjusting dynamic range and gain in an encoder/decoder for multidimensional sound fields Electricity 173 Expired
US6226608A Data framing for adaptive-block-length coding system Physics 168 Expired
US5727119A Method and apparatus for efficient implementation of single-sideband filter banks providing accurate measures of spectral magnitude and phase Electricity 165 Expired
US5581653A Low bit-rate high-resolution spectral envelope coding for audio encoder and decoder Electricity 161 Expired
US5222189A Low time-delay transform coder, decoder, and encoder/decoder for high-quality audio Electricity 157 Expired
US5862228A Audio matrix encoding Electricity 148 Expired
US7454331B2 Controlling loudness of speech in signals that contain speech and other types of audio material Electricity 144 Expired
US7447631B2 Audio coding system using spectral hole filling Physics 143 Expired
US9462399B2 Audio playback system monitoring Electricity 135 Active
US5274740A Decoder for variable number of channel presentation of multidimensional sound fields Electricity 122 Expired
US7461002B2 Method for time aligning audio signals using characterizations based on auditory events Physics 119 Expired
US5909664A Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding audio information representing three-dimensional sound fields Electricity 118 Expired
US5400433A Decoder for variable-number of channel presentation of multidimensional sound fields Electricity 116 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.