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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2013
Applicant:
Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v., Munich, DE;
Inventor:
Andreas Walther, Crissier, CH;
Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/04 (2006.01); H04S 3/00 (2006.01); G10L 19/02 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/04 (2013.01); G10L 19/02 (2013.01); H04S 3/008 (2013.01); H04S 2400/03 (2013.01); H04S 2400/15 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus for decomposing an input signal having a number of at least three input channels includes a downmixer for downmixing the input signal to obtain a downmixed signal having a smaller number of channels. Furthermore, an analyzer for analyzing the downmixed signal to derive an analysis result is provided, and the analysis result is forwarded to a signal processor for processing the input signal or a signal derived from the input signal to obtain the decomposed signal.