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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2011
Doh-suk Kim, Cupertino, CA (US);
Doh-Suk Kim, Cupertino, CA (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus comprising an ingress port configured to receive a signal comprising a plurality of encoded audio signals corresponding to a plurality of sources; and a processor coupled to the ingress port and configured to calculate a parameter for each of the plurality of encoded audio signals, wherein each parameter is calculated without decoding any of the encoded audio signals, select some, but not all, of the plurality of encoded audio signals according to the parameter for each of the encoded audio signals, decode the selected signals to generate a plurality of decoded audio signals, and combine the plurality of decoded audio signals into a first audio signal.