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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2018
Ibiquity Digital Corporation, Columbia, MD (US);
Russell Iannuzzelli, Bethesda, MD (US);
Adam Horowitz, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Jeffrey R Detweiler, Ellicott City, MD (US);
William E. Snelling, Columbia, MD (US);
Ibiquity Digital Corporation, Columbia, MD (US);
Abstract
An apparatus comprises a digital input port configured to receive digital audio packets of main program service (MPS) audio; a modem operatively coupled to the digital port; an analog input port configured to receive an audio engineer society format (AES) audio signal that is a digitized version of the analog signal component of the frequency modulation (FM) hybrid radio signal; and an alignment unit configured to time-align the AES audio signal with the digital audio packets at the modem; wherein the modem is configured to generate the FM hybrid radio signal using the digital audio packets and the time-aligned AES audio signal.