Inventor · Burlingame, CA, US

Grant A. Davidson

52Patents
18h-index
39Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 6, 1987 → Jun 28, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5394473A Adaptive-block-length, adaptive-transforn, and adaptive-window transform coder, decoder, and encoder/decoder for high-quality audio Physics 408 Expired
US5579404A Digital audio limiter Electricity 226 Expired
US5109417A Low bit rate transform coder, decoder, and encoder/decoder for high-quality audio Physics 175 Expired
US5727119A Method and apparatus for efficient implementation of single-sideband filter banks providing accurate measures of spectral magnitude and phase Electricity 165 Expired
US7447631B2 Audio coding system using spectral hole filling Physics 143 Expired
US4868867A Vector excitation speech or audio coder for transmission or storage Physics 132 Expired
US5142656A Low bit rate transform coder, decoder, and encoder/decoder for high-quality audio Electricity 112 Expired
US6246345A Using gain-adaptive quantization and non-uniform symbol lengths for improved audio coding Physics 105 Expired
US5632003A Computationally efficient adaptive bit allocation for coding method and apparatus Electricity 105 Expired
US5297236A Low computational-complexity digital filter bank for encoder, decoder, and encoder/decoder Electricity 100 Expired
US5848391A Method subband of coding and decoding audio signals using variable length windows Electricity 90 Expired
US5479562A Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding audio information Physics 85 Expired
US6363338B1 Quantization in perceptual audio coders with compensation for synthesis filter noise spreading Physics 72 Expired
US5230038A Low bit rate transform coder, decoder, and encoder/decoder for high-quality audio Electricity 65 Expired
US7337118B2 Audio coding system using characteristics of a decoded signal to adapt synthesized spectral components Physics 40 Expired
US7516064B2 Adaptive hybrid transform for signal analysis and synthesis Electricity 39 Expired
US5451954A Quantization noise suppression for encoder/decoder system Electricity 31 Expired
US8032387B2 Audio coding system using temporal shape of a decoded signal to adapt synthesized spectral components Physics 18 Active
US8392179B2 Multimode coding of speech-like and non-speech-like signals Physics 17 Active
US8050933B2 Audio coding system using temporal shape of a decoded signal to adapt synthesized spectral components Physics 17 Active
US8693699B2 Method for adaptive control and equalization of electroacoustic channels Electricity 9 Active
US10149082B2 Reverberation generation for headphone virtualization Electricity 4 Active
US8527264B2 Method and system for encoding audio data with adaptive low frequency compensation Physics 4 Active
US7840410B2 Audio coding based on block grouping Physics 3 Active
US9135907B2 Method and apparatus for reducing the effect of environmental noise on listeners Electricity 3 Active

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