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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2019
Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v., Munich, DE;
Patrick Gampp, Erlangen, DE;
Christian Uhle, Ursensollen, DE;
Sascha Disch, Fuerth, DE;
Antonios Karampourniotis, Nuremberg, DE;
Julia Havenstein, Nuremberg, DE;
Oliver Hellmuth, Buckenhof, DE;
Juergen Herre, Erlangen, DE;
Peter Prokein, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus for determining a predetermined characteristic related to a spectral enhancement processing of an audio signal includes a deriver configured for obtaining a spectrum of the audio signal and for deriving a local maximum signal from the spectrum. The apparatus includes a determiner configured for determining a similarity between segments of the local maximum signal and includes a processor for providing an information indicating that the audio signal includes the predetermined characteristic dependent on an evaluation of the similarity.