Inventor · Ergolding, DE

Thomas Sporer

35Patents
9h-index
59Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 29, 1994 → Feb 4, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5579430A Digital encoding process Electricity 186 Expired
US7343287B2 Method and apparatus for scalable encoding and method and apparatus for scalable decoding Physics 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
US5509017A Process for simultaneous transmission of signals from N signal sources Electricity 19 Expired
US6271771A Hearing-adapted quality assessment of audio signals Physics 16 Expired
US7873227B2 Device and method for processing at least two input values Electricity 15 Active
US7706544B2 Audio reproduction system and method for reproducing an audio signal Electricity 12 Active
US6750789B2 Device and method for determining a coding block raster of a decoded signal Physics 11 Expired
US7684578B2 Wave field synthesis apparatus and method of driving an array of loudspeakers Electricity 10 Active
US8649529B2 Apparatus, method and computer program for localizing a sound source Physics 8 Active
US7024259B1 System and method for evaluating the quality of multi-channel audio signals Electricity 7 Expired
US7512539B2 Method and device for processing time-discrete audio sampled values Physics 7 Expired
US7751915B2 Device for level correction in a wave field synthesis system Electricity 7 Active
US9114940B2 Transport of an object across a surface Human Necessities 7 Active
US9813804B2 Device and method for spatially selective audio reproduction Electricity 6 Active
US7391879B2 Loudspeaker Electricity 6 Expired
US8526623B2 Device and a method for determining a component signal with high accuracy Electricity 6 Active
US8195730B2 Apparatus and method for conversion into a transformed representation or for inverse conversion of the transformed representation Physics 5 Active
US7181079B2 Time signal analysis and derivation of scale factors Electricity 4 Expired
US7548630B2 Integrated loudspeaker system Electricity 3 Expired
US7881485B2 Apparatus and method of determining an impulse response and apparatus and method of presenting an audio piece Electricity 3 Active
US8605910B2 Device and a method for determining a component signal with high accuracy Electricity 3 Active
US7734362B2 Calculating a doppler compensation value for a loudspeaker signal in a wavefield synthesis system Electricity 3 Active
US9191734B2 Loudspeaker Electricity 2 Active
US7948557B2 Apparatus and method for generating a control signal for a film event system Physics 2 Active

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