Inventor · Scotts Valley, CA, US

Michael M. Goodwin

71Patents
19h-index
53Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 23, 1991 → Sep 19, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8379868B2 Spatial audio coding based on universal spatial cues Electricity 104 Active
US7412380B1 Ambience extraction and modification for enhancement and upmix of audio signals Physics 74 Expired
US8374365B2 Spatial audio analysis and synthesis for binaural reproduction and format conversion Electricity 55 Active
US5388163A Electret transducer array and fabrication technique Electricity 52 Expired
US6963842B2 Efficient system and method for converting between different transform-domain signal representations Physics 44 Expired
US7970144B1 Extracting and modifying a panned source for enhancement and upmix of audio signals Electricity 39 Active
US8107631B2 Correlation-based method for ambience extraction from two-channel audio signals Electricity 33 Active
US8447596B2 Monaural noise suppression based on computational auditory scene analysis Physics 31 Active
US8712061B2 Phase-amplitude 3-D stereo encoder and decoder Physics 31 Active
US8750538B2 Method for enhancing audio signals Electricity 30 Active
US8781137B1 Wind noise detection and suppression Electricity 28 Active
US7353169B1 Transient detection and modification in audio signals Physics 27 Expired
US8606249B1 Methods and systems for enhancing audio quality during teleconferencing Electricity 24 Active
US8712069B1 Selection of system parameters based on non-acoustic sensor information Electricity 21 Active
US9496850B2 Alias-free subband processing Electricity 21 Active
US9794721B2 System and method for capturing, encoding, distributing, and decoding immersive audio Electricity 20 Active
US9754597B2 Alias-free subband processing Electricity 20 Active
US9014377B2 Multichannel surround format conversion and generalized upmix Electricity 19 Active
US9865245B2 Multi-speaker method and apparatus for leakage cancellation Electricity 19 Active
US7277550B1 Enhancing audio signals by nonlinear spectral operations Electricity 17 Expired
US8103005B2 Primary-ambient decomposition of stereo audio signals using a complex similarity index Physics 16 Active
US8345899B2 Phase-amplitude matrixed surround decoder Electricity 16 Active
US9343056B1 Wind noise detection and suppression Electricity 10 Active
US9343073B1 Robust noise suppression system in adverse echo conditions Electricity 10 Active
US8184835B2 Transducer array with nonuniform asymmetric spacing and method for configuring array Electricity 10 Active

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