Inventor · Erlangen, DE

Oliver Hellmuth

72Patents
11h-index
54Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 26, 2002 → Jul 12, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8315396B2 Apparatus and method for generating audio output signals using object based metadata Electricity 124 Active
US7460994B2 Method and apparatus for producing a fingerprint, and method and apparatus for identifying an audio signal Physics 98 Expired
US7580832B2 Apparatus and method for robust classification of audio signals, and method for establishing and operating an audio-signal database, as well as computer program Physics 52 Active
US8325929B2 Binaural rendering of a multi-channel audio signal Electricity 38 Active
US8824688B2 Apparatus and method for generating audio output signals using object based metadata Electricity 31 Active
US8332059B2 Apparatus and method for synchronizing additional data and base data Physics 20 Active
US8958566B2 Audio signal decoder, method for decoding an audio signal and computer program using cascaded audio object processing stages Electricity 19 Active
US8407060B2 Audio decoder, audio object encoder, method for decoding a multi-audio-object signal, multi-audio-object encoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium therefor Electricity 18 Active
US8155971B2 Audio decoding of multi-audio-object signal using upmixing Electricity 13 Active
US8065260B2 Device and method for analyzing an information signal Physics 13 Active
US8280744B2 Audio decoder, audio object encoder, method for decoding a multi-audio-object signal, multi-audio-object encoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium therefor Electricity 12 Active
US8538766B2 Audio decoder, audio object encoder, method for decoding a multi-audio-object signal, multi-audio-object encoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium therefor Electricity 11 Active
US8139775B2 Concept for combining multiple parametrically coded audio sources Physics 10 Active
US7081581B2 Method and device for characterizing a signal and method and device for producing an indexed signal Physics 9 Expired
US7478045B2 Method and device for characterizing a signal and method and device for producing an indexed signal Physics 9 Expired
US9517732B2 Headrest speaker arrangement Electricity 8 Active
US8346565B2 Apparatus and method for generating an ambient signal from an audio signal, apparatus and method for deriving a multi-channel audio signal from an audio signal and computer program Electricity 7 Active
US10096325B2 Decoder and method for a generalized spatial-audio-object-coding parametric concept for multichannel downmix/upmix cases by comparing a downmix channel matrix eigenvalues to a threshold Electricity 7 Active
US9064498B2 Apparatus and method for processing an audio signal for speech enhancement using a feature extraction Physics 7 Active
US8781133B2 Apparatus for generating a multi-channel audio signal Electricity 6 Active
US9743215B2 Apparatus and method for center signal scaling and stereophonic enhancement based on a signal-to-downmix ratio Electricity 6 Active
US8577482B2 Device and method for generating an ambience signal Electricity 5 Active
US9734833B2 Encoder, decoder and methods for backward compatible dynamic adaption of time/frequency resolution spatial-audio-object-coding Physics 5 Active
US9947325B2 Decoder, encoder and method for informed loudness estimation employing by-pass audio object signals in object-based audio coding systems Electricity 5 Active
US9060236B2 Apparatus for providing an upmix signal representation on the basis of a downmix signal representation, apparatus for providing a bitstream representing a multi-channel audio signal, methods, computer program and bitstream using a distortion control signaling Electricity 4 Active

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