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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2007
Alan Jeffrey Seefeldt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kenneth James Gundry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alan Jeffrey Seefeldt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kenneth James Gundry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Information useful for modifying the dynamics of an audio signal is derived from one or more devices or processes operating at one or more respective nodes of each of a plurality of hierarchy levels, each hierarchical level having one or more nodes, in which the one or more devices or processes operating at each hierarchical level takes a measure of one or more characteristics of the audio signal such that the one or more devices or processes operating at each successively lower hierarchical level takes a measure of one or more characteristics of progressively smaller subdivisions of the audio signal.