Inventor · Erlangen, DE

Karlheinz Brandenburg

36Patents
20h-index
58Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 18, 1989 → Feb 4, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5040217A Perceptual coding of audio signals Electricity 175 Expired
US6424939B1 Method for coding an audio signal Physics 167 Expired
US5701346A Method of coding a plurality of audio signals Electricity 110 Expired
US6341165B1 Coding and decoding of audio signals by using intensity stereo and prediction processes Physics 107 Expired
US6502069B1 Method and a device for coding audio signals and a method and a device for decoding a bit stream Electricity 96 Expired
US6771777B1 Process for coding and decoding stereophonic spectral values Electricity 95 Expired
US5848391A Method subband of coding and decoding audio signals using variable length windows Electricity 90 Expired
US6766293B1 Method for signalling a noise substitution during audio signal coding Electricity 71 Expired
US7117365B1 Method and device for generating a data stream and method and device for playing back a data stream Electricity 64 Expired
US6115688A Process and device for the scalable coding of audio signals Electricity 61 Expired
US6975254B1 Methods and devices for coding or decoding an audio signal or bit stream Electricity 45 Expired
US7343287B2 Method and apparatus for scalable encoding and method and apparatus for scalable decoding Physics 32 Expired
USRE36714E Perceptual coding of audio signals General 32 Expired
US7275036B2 Apparatus and method for coding a time-discrete audio signal to obtain coded audio data and for decoding coded audio data Physics 31 Expired
US6629078B1 Apparatus and method of coding a mono signal and stereo information Physics 30 Expired
US6370507B1 Frequency-domain scalable coding without upsampling filters Physics 28 Expired
US5736943A Method for determining the type of coding to be selected for coding at least two signals Electricity 27 Expired
US7454327B1 Method and apparatus for introducing information into a data stream and method and apparatus for encoding an audio signal Electricity 26 Expired
US6453282B1 Method and device for detecting a transient in a discrete-time audiosignal Electricity 23 Expired
US6421802B1 Method for masking defects in a stream of audio data Physics 22 Expired
US5014318A Apparatus for checking audio signal processing systems Electricity 20 Expired
US6826525B2 Method and device for detecting a transient in a discrete-time audio signal Electricity 15 Expired
US6750789B2 Device and method for determining a coding block raster of a decoded signal Physics 11 Expired
US5918203A Method and device for determining the tonality of an audio signal Electricity 10 Expired
US7035742B2 Apparatus and method for characterizing an information signal Physics 9 Expired

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