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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
François Becker, Essonne, FR;
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An audio artifact reduction technique operates on a pair of temporally-adjacent audio tracks. Samples at an end portion of a first track may be altered according to an inter-track sample discontinuity at a boundary between the two tracks. Samples at a beginning portion of a second track also may be altered according to the inter-track discontinuity. These altering operations may cause the sample values and the end of the first track and the beginning of the second track to be equal to each other at the boundary between the two tracks. In one aspect, the altering may generate adjustment curves that alter sample values of the tracks around the boundary between them. In another aspect, the altering may trim the tracks at zero crossings of track sample values nearest to the boundary between the tracks.