Inventor · Hannover, DE

Bernd Edler

100Patents
12h-index
66Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 1, 1990 → Nov 16, 2023

Most-cited inventions

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US6370507B1 Frequency-domain scalable coding without upsampling filters Physics 28 Expired
US5511093A Method for reducing data in a multi-channel data transmission Electricity 26 Expired
US9129597B2 Audio signal decoder, audio signal encoder, methods and computer program using a sampling rate dependent time-warp contour encoding Physics 25 Active
US8700388B2 Audio transform coding using pitch correction Physics 18 Active
US7110953B1 Perceptual coding of audio signals using separated irrelevancy reduction and redundancy reduction Physics 14 Expired
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US8155954B2 Device and method for generating a complex spectral representation of a discrete-time signal Physics 12 Active
US8321207B2 Device and method for postprocessing spectral values and encoder and decoder for audio signals Physics 11 Active
US6778953B1 Method and apparatus for representing masked thresholds in a perceptual audio coder Physics 11 Expired
US9398294B2 Audio or video encoder, audio or video decoder and related methods for processing multi-channel audio or video signals using a variable prediction direction Electricity 11 Active
US6678647B1 Perceptual coding of audio signals using cascaded filterbanks for performing irrelevancy reduction and redundancy reduction with different spectral/temporal resolution Physics 10 Expired
US5559834A Method of reducing crosstalk in processing of acoustic or optical signals Electricity 7 Expired
US7707030B2 Device and method for generating a complex spectral representation of a discrete-time signal Physics 7 Active
US11562764B2 Apparatus, method or computer program for generating a bandwidth-enhanced audio signal using a neural network processor Physics 7 Active
US11049506B2 Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding an encoded audio signal using temporal noise/patch shaping Physics 6 Active
US9916834B2 Method and apparatus for obtaining spectrum coefficients for a replacement frame of an audio signal, audio decoder, audio receiver, and system for transmitting audio signals Physics 6 Active
US11289104B2 Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding an audio signal with intelligent gap filling in the spectral domain Physics 6 Active
US9734833B2 Encoder, decoder and methods for backward compatible dynamic adaption of time/frequency resolution spatial-audio-object-coding Physics 5 Active
US11922956B2 Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding an audio signal with intelligent gap filling in the spectral domain Physics 4 Active
US11735192B2 Audio encoder, audio decoder and related methods using two-channel processing within an intelligent gap filling framework Physics 4 Active

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