Inventor · Scottsdale, AZ, US

David L. Barron

20Patents
10h-index
17Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: May 3, 1991 → Sep 23, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8041054B2 Systems and methods for selectively switching between multiple microphones Electricity 40 Active
US5187745A Efficient codebook search for CELP vocoders Physics 36 Expired
US5265190A CELP vocoder with efficient adaptive codebook search Physics 34 Expired
US5179594A Efficient calculation of autocorrelation coefficients for CELP vocoder adaptive codebook Physics 23 Expired
US5357567A Method and apparatus for volume switched gain control Electricity 21 Expired
US5173941A Reduced codebook search arrangement for CELP vocoders Physics 21 Expired
US7243065B2 Low-complexity comfort noise generator Physics 13 Expired
US5221885A Low-power dual voltage drive circuit and method Electricity 11 Expired
US7142665B2 Automatic gain control for an adaptive finite impulse response and method therefore Electricity 11 Expired
US6658112B1 Voice decoder and method for detecting channel errors using spectral energy evolution Physics 10 Expired
US8794852B2 Hybrid fiber optic pigtail assembly Physics 5 Active
US8655418B2 Method and apparatus for a frequency domain echo suppression filter Electricity 3 Active
US7734466B2 Reduced complexity recursive least square lattice structure adaptive filter by means of limited recursion of the backward and forward error prediction squares Electricity 3 Active
US9462377B2 Systems and methods for optimizing an audio communication system Electricity 2 Active
US8712769B2 Apparatus and method for noise removal by spectral smoothing Physics 1 Active
US7065207B2 Controlling attenuation during echo suppression Electricity 1 Expired
US9537460B2 Apparatus and method for automatic gain control Electricity 1 Active
US6928409B2 Speech recognition using polynomial expansion and hidden markov models Physics 0 Expired
US7702711B2 Reduced complexity recursive least square lattice structure adaptive filter by means of estimating the backward and forward error prediction squares using binomial expansion Electricity 0 Active
US8600040B2 Apparatus and method for convergence control Physics 0 Active

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