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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2012
Applicant:
Ashwini Pahuja, Albertson, NY (US);
Inventor:
Ashwini Pahuja, Albertson, NY (US);
Assignee:
iBiquity Digital Corporation, Columbia, MD (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04H 40/36 (2008.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 40/36 (2013.01); H04H 2201/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for blending analog and digital portions of a composite digital audio broadcast signal by using look ahead metrics computed from previously received audio frames to guide the blending process and prevent unnecessary blending back and forth between analog and digital if the look ahead metrics indicate that future digital signal quality is degraded or impaired.