A compound comprising three components A, B, and C, which components are covalently bound forming the compound having the structure A-B-C wherein component A has a specific binding affinity for antigens, component B is covalently linked to component A component C is a compound having an alkylated purin or pyrimidin ...

A calibratable magnetic field sensor (100) for sensing a first and a second spatial component (By, Bz; Bx, By) of a magnetic field in a reference point (101), wherein the magnetic field comprises a first and a second measurement field component (BMy, BMz; BMx, BMy) and/or a first and a second calibration field co...

An apparatus for upmixing a downmix audio signal describing one or more downmix audio channels into an upmixed audio signal describing a plurality of upmixed audio channels comprises an upmixer and a parameter determinator. The upmixer is configured to apply temporally variable upmix parameters to upmix the downmix ...

An apparatus (500) for mixing a plurality of input data streams (510) is described, wherein the input data streams (510) each comprise a frame (540) of audio data in the spectral domain, a frame (540) of an input data stream (510) comprising spectral information for a plurality of spectral components. The appar...

An apparatus for generating an audio output signal having two or more audio output channels from an audio input signal having two or more audio input channels is provided. The apparatus comprises a provider (110) and a signal processor (120). The provider (110) is adapted to provide first covariance properties of th...

A method comprises estimating a spatial coherence between a first diffuse sound portion in a first microphone signal and a second diffuse sound portion in a second microphone signal. The first microphone signal is captured by a first microphone and the second microphone signal is captured by a second microphone wh i...

An apparatus (100) for determining a spatial output multi-channel audio signal based on an input audio signal and an input parameter. The apparatus (100) comprises a decomposer (110) for decomposing the input audio signal based on the input parameter to obtain a first decomposed signal and a second decomposed s...

An apparatus (100) for playing back an audio object associated with a position is provided. The apparatus (100) comprises a distance calculator (110) for calculating distances of the position to speakers or for reading the distances of the position to the speakers. The distance calculator (110) is configured to take...

An apparatus for generating a representation of a bandwidth-extended signal on the basis of an input signal representation comprises a phase vocoder configured to obtain values of a spectral domain representation of a first patch of the bandwidth-extended signal on the basis of the input signal representation. Th...

An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended audio signal from an input signal, comprises a patch generator for generating one or more patch signals from the input signal, wherein the patch generator is configured for performing a time stretching (1800, 1808) of subband signals from an analysis filterbank, and w...

A selected channel of a multi-channel signal which is represented by frames composed from sampling values having a high time resolution can be encoded with higher quality when a wave form parameter representation representing a wave form of an intermediate resolution representation of the selected channel is de...

The invention relates to the use of boswellic acids such as acetyl 11 keto ß boswellic acid 11 keto ß boswellic acid ß boswellic acid acetyl ß boswellic acid 9 11 dehydro ß boswellic acid acetyl 9 11 dehydro ß boswellic acid a boswellic acid acetyl a boswellic acid 11 dehydro a boswellic acid acetyl 9 11 dehydro a b...

The  invention  relates  to  an  Audio  encoder  for  encoding  an  audio  signal, comprising: a time warper (506); a   time-frequency   converter   (508)   for performing a time/frequency conversion of a time warped audio signal into a spectral representation; a quantizer (512) for quantizing audio values, wherein ...

A vehicle comprises a side wall, a ceiling and a speaker arrangement comprising at least one speaker. The speaker arrangement is positioned in or at the side wall and is configured such that a main sound emission direction of the speaker arrangement is directed to the ceiling.

Apparatus and method for processing stereo signals for reproduction in cars to achieve individual three dimensional sound by frontal loudspeakers Embodiments provide a digital processor (100) comprising an ambient portion extractor (102) and a spatial effect processing stage (104). The ambient portion extractor (102...

An N-allyl carbamate compound which is suitable as an additive is proposed, the chemical main body thereof allowing modifications of the overall structure of the compound in order to ensure sufficiently high compatibility with as many binder systems as possible, wherein the UV-crosslinkable double bond is designed t...

An apparatus for generating a sound field description having a representation of sound field components comprises a direction determiner (102) for determining one or more sound directions for each time frequency tile of a plurality of time frequency tiles of a plurality of microphone signals; a spatial basis functio...

An apparatus for level estimation of an encoded audio signal is provided. The apparatus comprises a codebook determinator (110) for determining a codebook from a plurality of codebooks as an identified codebook. The audio signal has been encoded by employing the identified codebook. Moreover,the apparatus comprises ...

The invention relates to a device for positioning a multi aperture optical unit with multiple optical channels relative to an image sensor comprising a reference object a positioning device and a calculating device. The reference object is arranged such that the reference object is imaged in the optical channels ont...

For classifying different segments of a signal which comprises segments of at least a first type and second type, e.g. audio and speech segments, the signal is short-term classified (150) on the basis of the at least one short-term feature extracted from the signal and a short-term classification result (152) is ...

Noise filling in perceptual transform audio codecs is improved by performing the noise filling with a spectrally global tilt rather than in a spectrally flat manner.

A magnetic field sensor (100) calibratable during measurement operation for detecting first, second, and third spatial components Bz, By and Bx of a magnetic field at a reference point (101), wherein the magnetic field has first, second, and third measurement field components BMz, BMy and BMx, and first, second, a...

The invention relates to a device for demultiplexing a packet based transport stream (14) of transport stream packets (12), which are each provided with a systematic forward error detection code, wherein the transport stream packets are each assigned to a data sink (20) of a plurality of data sinks (20), such that a...

The invention relates to a device having an optical structure and having webs. Adhesive is arranged between the webs and the supporting structure wherein the adhesive acts to produce a predefined orientation of the optical structure in relation to a reference plane after said adhesive has cured. ...

The  invention  relates  to  an  Audio  encoder  for  encoding  an  audio  signal, comprising:a time warper (506); a   time-frequency   converter   (508)   for performing a time/frequency conversion of a time warped audio signal into a spectral representation; a quantizer (512) for quantizing audio values, wherein t...

An apparatus for generating a modified audio signal comprising two or more modified audio channels from an audio input signal comprising two or more audio input channels is provided. The apparatus comprises an information generator (110) for generating signal to downmix information. The information generator (110) i...

Quantizing an information signal of a sequence of information values includes frequency-selective filtering the sequence of information values to obtain a sequence of filtered information values and quantizing the filtered information values to obtain a sequence of quantized information values by means of a quantizi...

The  invention  relates  to  an  Audio  encoder  for  encoding  an  audio  signal, comprising: a time warper (506); a   time-frequency   converter   (508)   for performing a time/frequency conversion of a time warped audio signal into a spectral representation; a quantizer (512) for quantizing audio values, wherein ...

According to an inventive scheme for introducing a watermark into an information signal,the information signal (12) is at first transferred from a time representation (22) to a spectral/modulation spectral representation (30). The information signal is then manipulated in the spectral/modulation spectral representat...

A multi channel decorrelator for providing a plurality of decorrelated signals on the basis of a plurality of decorrelator input signals is configured to premix a first set of N decorrelator input signals into a second set of K decorrelator input signals wherein KK . The multi channel decorrelator can be used in a m...

An embedder for embedding a watermark to be embedded into an input information representation comprises an information adder, which is implemented to provide the input information representation with the watermark and additional information to be added to obtain an input information representation provided with t...

Partitioned block frequency domain adaptive filter device comprising: a frequency domain adaptive filter configured for filtering a frequency domain representation of a time domain input signal depending on a set of filter coefficients consisting of a plurality of blocks of filter coefficients in order to produce a ...

The  invention  relates  to  an  Audio  encoder  for  encoding  an  audio  signal, comprising:a time warper (506); a   time-frequency   converter   (508)   for performing a time/frequency conversion of a time warped audio signal into a spectral representation; a quantizer (512) for quantizing audio values, wherein t...

121212The invention relates to a method for detecting molecules of a particular substance by means of an optical sensor. This method comprises the steps of  bringing the sensor into contact with a fluid to be analyzed  coupling light of a first wavelength (?) into an optical resonator (3) of the sensor the resonator...

A device for generating a binaural signal based on a multi-channel signal representing a plurality of channels and intended for reproduction by a speaker configuration having a virtual sound source position associated to each channel, is described. It comprises a correlation reducer for differently processing, and t...

The  invention  relates  to  an  Audio  encoder  for  encoding  an  audio  signal, comprising: a time warper (506); a   time-frequency   converter   (508)   for performing a time/frequency conversion of a time warped audio signal into a spectral representation; a quantizer (512) for quantizing audio values, wherein ...

Decoder retrieval timing information. ROI information and tile identification information are conveyed within a video data stream at a level which allows for an easy access by network entities such as MANEs or decoder. In order to reach such a level information of such types are conveyed within a video data stream b...

Linear prediction based audio coding is improved by coding a spectrum composed of a plurality of spectral components using a probability distribution estimation determined for each of the plurality of spectral components from linear prediction coefficient information. In particular the linear prediction coefficient ...

An apparatus (100) for generating one or more audio channels is provided. The apparatus (100) comprises a metadata decoder (110) for receiving one or more compressed metadata signals. Each of the one or more compressed metadata signals comprises a plurality of first metadata samples. The first metadata samples of ea...

11121212122121121212Audio processor (10) comprising an input interface a detector interface (32) a mixer (22) and an output interface. The input interface receiving at least two input audio channels (12 122) each input audio channel (12 12) being associated with a predetermined reproduction position of at least two ...

1N1N1?1N1N1N1?1N1Niiiii1Niiiiiiiii1NAn apparatus (100) for generating one or more audio channels is provided. The apparatus comprises a metadata decoder (110) for generating one or more reconstructed metadata signals (x ... x ) from one or more processed metadata signals (z ... z) depending on a control signal (b) w...

An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal comprises a spectral domain audio decoder (112) for generating a first decoded representation of a first set of first spectral portions the decoded representation having a first spectral resolution; a parametric decoder (114) for generating a second decoded represent...

The invention relates to a device (10) for sensing an object region (12; 12 ) comprising a flat housing. Said housing has a first main side (14) a second main side (16) a border side (18a) and a multi aperture device (22) having a plurality of optical channels (24a; 24b) which are arranged laterally adjacent to each...

Audio encoder for encoding audio input data (101) to obtain audio output data (501) comprises an input interface (100) for receiving a plurality of audio channels a plurality of audio objects and metadata related to one or more of the plurality of audio objects; a mixer (200) for mixing the plurality of objects and ...

The invention relates to a dispersion and a method for coating objects in particular heat exchanger structures in which this dispersion is applied to a support structure and is crosslinked and/or formed into a film forming a layer. The invention likewise relates to heat exchanger structures coated in this manner....

An audio decoder for providing at least four bandwidth extended channel signals on the basis of an encoded representation is configured to provide a first downmix signal and a second downmix signal on the basis of a jointly encoded representation of the first downmix signal and the second downmix signal using a mult...

An audio decoder for providing at least four audio channel signals on the basis of an encoded representation is configured to provide a first residual signal and a second residual signal on the basis of a jointly encoded representation of the first residual signal and of the second residual signal using a multi chan...

A method for processing an audio signal (504) in accordance with a room impulse response is described. The audio signal (504) is processed (502) with an early part of the room impulse response separate from a late reverberation of the room impulse response wherein the processing (514) of the late reverberation compr...

In multichannel audio coding an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular the coding efficiency in multichannel audio codin...

An apparatus for decoding an encoded signal comprises: an audio decoder (1102) for decoding an encoded representation of a first set of first spectral portions to obtain a decoded first set of first spectral portions (1101); a parametric decoder (1104) for decoding an encoded parametric representation of a second se...

A method for processing an audio signal (400) in accordance with a room impulse response (434) is described. The audio signal (400) is separately processed (422 424) with an early part and a late reverberation of the room impulse response (434) and the processed early part (428) of the audio signal and the reverbera...

An audio encoder for encoding an audio signal comprises: a first encoding processor (600) for encoding a first audio signal portion in a frequency domain wherein the first encoding processor (600) comprises: a time frequency converter (602) for converting the first audio signal portion into a frequency domain repres...

An audio decoder device for decoding a compressed input audio signal comprising at least one core decoder (6 24) having one or more processors (36 36 ) for generating a processor output signal (37) based on a processor input signal (38 38 ) wherein a number of output channels (37.1 37.2 37.1  37.2 ) of the processor...

Apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal comprising an encoded core signal (1) comprising: a core decoder (1400) for decoding the encoded core signal (1401) to obtain a decoded core signal; a tile generator (1404) for generating one or more spectral tiles having frequencies not included in the decoded core sig...

An apparatus for generating one or more audio output channels is provided. The apparatus comprises a parameter processor (110) for calculating mixing information and a downmix processor (120) for generating the one or more audio output channels. The downmix processor (120) is configured to receive an audio transport...

A multi channel audio decoder for providing at least two output audio signals on the basis of an encoded representation is configured to render a plurality of decoded audio signals which are obtained on the basis of the encoded representation in dependence on one or more rendering parameters to obtain a plurality of...

An apparatus for generating an enhanced signal from an input signal (600) wherein the enhanced signal has spectral values for an enhancement spectral region the spectral values for the enhancement spectral regions not being contained in the input signal (600) comprises a mapper (602) for mapping a source spectral re...

An apparatus for enhancing an audio signal comprises a signal processor for processing the audio signal in order to reduce or eliminate transient and tonal portions of the processed signal and a decorrelator for generating a first decorrelated signal and a second decorrelated signal from the processed signal. The ap...

A method is described that processes an audio signal (100) A discontinuity between a filtered past frame and a filtered current frame of the audio signal is removed using linear predictive filtering (102 110 112).

An apparatus for encoding audio information is provided. The apparatus for encoding audio information comprises a selector (1 10) for selecting a comfort noise generation mode from two or more comfort noise generation modes depending on a background noise characteristic of an audio input signal and an encoding unit ...

An apparatus for adapting input audio information encoding one or more audio objects to obtain adapted audio information is provided. The input audio information comprises two or more input audio downmix channels and further comprises input parametric side information. The adapted audio information comprises one or ...

A frequency domain audio codec is provided with the ability to additionally support a certain transform length in a backward compatible manner by the following: the frequency domain coefficients of a respective frame are transmitted in an interleaved manner irrespective of the signalization signaling for the frames ...

Embodiments of the present invention provide a battery-operated fixed sensor assembly having unidirectional data transmission. The battery-operated fixed sensor assembly has a sensor, a device for generating data packets and a device for transmitting data packets. The sensor is designed to determine sensor data and ...

An apparatus (100) for providing direction information based on a reproduced audio signal with an embedded watermark is provided. The apparatus (100) comprises a signal processor (110) which is adapted to process at least two received watermarked audio signals recorded by at least two audio receivers at different sp...

Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoder comprising a quantization stage, an entropy encoder, a residual quantization stage and a coded signal former. The quantization stage is configured to quantize an input signal using a dead zone in order to obtain a plurality of quantized values. The entropy enco...

Video composition is performed by filling a portion of the composed video data steam by collecting and copying and another portion added synthetically by referencing via motion compensated temporal prediction the other portion of the composed video data stream obtained by collecting and copying. ...

A decoder for generating an audio output signal comprising one or more audio output Channels from a downmix signal comprising three or more downmix Channels wherein the downmix signal encodes three or more audio object Signals is provided. The decoder comprises an input Channel router (110) for receiving the three o...

The invention relates to a method for driving a motor vehicle and a drive system for a motor vehicle for the solely electro motorized forward movement of which at least one electric motor is directly or indirectly connected to a drive shaft of the motor vehicle which electric motor is supplied with electrical energy...

A decoder is provided. The decoder comprises a parametric decoding unit (110) for generating a plurality of first estimated audio object signals by upmixing three or more downmix signals wherein the three or more downmix signals encode a plurality of original audio object signals wherein the parametric decoding unit...

The invention relates to a method for producing an adsorbent from organometallic framework structures (MOF) in which at least one metal salt is converted together with at least one organic ligand. The conversion occurs at a temperature of greater than 100 °C in a solvent mixture which contains DMSO and water. The in...

Audio decoder device for decoding a bitstream the audio decoder device comprising: a predictive decoder for producing a decoded audio frame from the bitstream wherein the predictive decoder comprises a parameter decoder for producing one or more audio parameters for the decoded audio frame from the bitstream and whe...

An apparatus for processing an audio signal comprising a sequence of blocks (114) of spectral values comprises: a processor (100) for processing the sequence of blocks using at least one modification values (102) for a first block to obtain aliasing reduced or aliasing free first result signal in an overlap range (1...

A video decoder for decoding a sequence of pictures, each of which is coded into a plurality of transformation coefficient blocks, is configured to decode transformation coefficient blocks of different pictures on different computing kernels of a first SIMD group at the same time.

An apparatus for reproducing an audio signal based on first data representing a coded version of a first portion of the audio signal in a first frequency band and second data representing side information on a second portion of the audio signal in a second frequency band the second frequency band comprising frequenc...

An audio encoder comprises a first information sink oriented encoding branch such as a spectral domain encoding branch, a second information source or SNR oriented encoding branch such as an LPC-domain encoding branch, and a switch for switching between the first encoding branch and the second encoding branch, ...

A transceiver of a user equipment comprises a receiving stage a frontend channel estimator a frontend channel equalizer a backend channel estimator and a backend channel equalizer. The receiving stage is configured to receive an inbound signal from a SUDAC which enables a relay communication comprising a frontend co...

A codec supporting switching between time-domain aliasing cancellation transform coding mode and time-domain coding mode is made less liable to frame loss by adding a further syntax portion to the frames, depending on which the parser of the decoder may select between a first action of expecting the current frame to...

An efficient encoded representation of a first and a second input audio signal can be derived using correlation information indicating a correlation between the first and the second input audio signals, when a signal characterization information, indicating at least a first or a second, different characteristic...

A noise filler for providing a noise-filled spectral representation of an audio signal on the basis of an input spectral representation of the audio signal comprises a spectral region identifier configured to identify spectral regions of the input spectral representation spaced from non-zero spectral regions of...

An apparatus (100) for generating bandwidth extension output data (102) for an audio signal (105) comprises a noise floor measurer (110), a signal energy characterizer (120) and a processor (130). The audio signal (105) comprises components in a first frequency band (105a) and components in a second frequency b...

An aspect refers a controller of a SUDA system the SUDA system comprising a first base station network group and a second base station network group at least a first SUDAC (SUDA Component which may be simplified described as configurable relay forwarding data) as well as a first user equipment assigned to the first ...

In a method for encoding a symbol it is determined whether the symbol can be encoded by a codeword of a first codebook. In case this is true, the appropriate codeword for the symbol is selected from the first codebook. Otherwise, a codeword is selected from the first codebook indicating that the symbol cannot be ...

The present invention relates to a metal-containing composition, a method for producing electrical contact structures on electronic components and also an electronic component provided with such a contacting.

An encoder for providing an audio stream on the basis of a transform-domain representation of an input audio signal comprises a quantization error calculator configured to determine a multi-band quantization error over a plurality of frequency bands of the input audio signal for which separate band gain informa...

An audio encoder (100) adapted for encoding frames of a sampled audio signal to obtain encoded frames, wherein a frame comprises a number of time domain audio samples, comprising a predictive coding analysis stage (110) for determining information on coefficients of a synthesis filter and information on a predict...

An apparatus for decoding (100) an encoded audio signal (102), the encoded audio signal (102) comprising a first portion (104a) encoded in accordance with a first encoding algorithm, a second portion (104b) encoded in accordance with a second encoding algorithm, BWE parameters (106) for the first portion (104a)...

An arrangement (10) for treating materials (12) with microwaves contains a multimode microwave applicator (18) for treating the material with microwaves in a first treatment region (20); a monomode microwave applicator (24) with a multipart embodiment for treating the material with microwaves in a second treatment r...

An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information comprises an arithmetic decoder for providing a plurality of decoded spectral values on the basis of an arithmetically encoded representation of the spectral values, and a frequency-domain-to-time-domain converter...

A SUDAC comprises a first wireless communication interface, a second wireless communication interface and a processor. The first wireless communication interface is configured for using ultra-high frequency in order to establish at least one backend communication link with a base station. The second wireless communi...

An apparatus (100) for downmixing three or more audio input channels to obtain two or more audio output channels is provided. The apparatus (100) comprises a receiving interface (110) for receiving the three or more audio input channels and for receiving side information. Moreover the apparatus (100) comprises a dow...

The present invention relates to a lubricating mixture, which contains glycerides of natural origin and fatty acid alkyl esters. The glycerides are at least partly mono and/or diglycerides which form a mass fraction of ≥ 10% in the mixture. In a temperature range from > 10°C to at least 15°C the mixture has a ...

Assignment of resources of a base station for streaming media content from a server to a client wherein media presentation descriptions are available for different bandwidth requirements for the media content. Resources are assigned based on a media presentation description in particular for dynamic adaptive streami...

Embodiments disclose a vehicle which comprises a vehicle ceiling having a first sound wave reflection portion having a first sound wave reflection characteristic and a second portion having a second sound wave reflection characteristic, wherein the first sound wave reflection portion is more sound wave reflecting...

In embodiments of the invention, a headrest of a vehicle seat or a speaker box which can be attached to the vehicle seat or to a headrest is described. The headrest or the speaker box may comprise at least one speaker integrated in the headrest or in the speaker box, wherein the speaker has a main sound emission dir...

The invention relates to an open concentrator system for solar radiation comprising a hollow mirror and a photovoltaic module comprising a plurality of solar cells disposed in the focus of said hollow mirror, the photovoltaic module being encapsulated by a housing. The housing is thereby configured such that it has ...

An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal comprises: a spectral domain audio decoder (602) for generating a first decoded representation of a first set of first spectral portions being spectral prediction residual values; a frequency regenerator (604) for generating a reconstructed second spectral portion us...

An embodiment of an analysis filterbank for filtering a plurality of time domain input frames, wher in an input frame comprises a number of ordered input  samples, com­prises a windower configured to generating a plu­rality of windowed samples, wherein the windower is config­ured to process the plurality of input fr...

The ratio between coding quality on the one hand and coding rate on the other hand is increased. To this end a global predictor and a local predictor are used in combination. The global predictor derives a global tone mapping function based on a statistical analysis of pairs of values of co located samples in the fi...

An apparatus for generating a decorrelated signal comprising a receiving unit (650) for receiving phase information, a transient separator (310; 410; 510; 610; 710; 910), a transient decorrelator (320; 420; 520; 620; 720; 920), a second decorrelator (330; 430; 530; 630; 730; 930) and a combining unit (340; 440; 540;...

An apparatus for generating a decorrelated signal comprising a transient separator (310; 410; 510; 610; 710; 910), a transient decorrelator (320; 420; 520; 620; 720; 920), a second decorrelator (330; 430; 530; 630; 730; 930), a combining unit (340; 440; 540; 640; 740; 940) and a mixer (450; 552; 752; 952), wherein t...

A common backup format of a backup rights object according to embodiments of the present invention has the following features: - License information that is not critical for cryptographic security of the rights object is kept in "plain text" with a well defined syntax in a first data container (302), license ...

A file system is configured to provide based on a request from a requester a requested file stored on a storage medium to the requester. Furthermore the file system is configured to provide a chosen part of the requested file corresponding to a desired version of the content of the requested file to the requester ba...

The missing of a depth map for a current picture of a reference view  due to the transmission thereof being not anticipated anyway or due to the preferred coding order between a texture/picture and its depth map or due an anticipated discarding of depth data from the bitstream during transmission or decoding  may be...

According to an aspect of the present invention an encoder for encoding an audio signal comprises an analyzer configured for deriving prediction coefficients and a residual signal from a frame of the audio signal. The encoder comprises a formant information calculator configured for calculating a speech related spec...

cncnAn encoder for encoding an audio signal comprises: an analyzer (120; 320) configured for deriving prediction coefficients (122; 322) and a residual signal from an unvoiced frame of the audio signal (102); a gain parameter calculator (550; 550 ) configured for calculating a first gain parameter (g) information fo...

An apparatus (10) for determining a position for an object (5) in relation to a presentation of an image (3) that is to be presented comprises a position pattern generator (12) for generating a position pattern (13) which is divided into a multiplicity of pattern sections wherein each of the pattern sections has a u...

191011A method is described which decodes a downmix matrix (306) for mapping a plurality of input channels (300) of audio content to a plurality of output channels (302) the input and output channels (300 302) being associated with respective speakers at predetermined positions relative to a listener position whe...

A coding efficiency of coding spectral coefficients of a spectrum of an audio signal is increased by en/decoding a currently to be en/decoded spectral coefficient by entropy en/decoding and in doing so performing the entropy en/decoding depending in a context adaptive manner on a previously en/decoded spectral coeff...

Although wedgelet based partitioning seems to represent a better tradeoff between side information rate on the one hand and achievable variety in partitioning possibilities on the other hand compared to contour partitioning the ability to alleviate the constraints of the partitioning to the extent that the partition...

A signal manipulator for manipulating an audio signal having a transient event may comprise a transient remover (100), a signal processor (110) and a signal inserter (120) for inserting a time portion in a processed audio signal at a signal location where the transient event was removed before processing by said ...

An apparatus for generating a merged audio data stream is provided. The apparatus comprises a demultiplexer (180) for obtaining a plurality of single layer audio data streams wherein the demultiplexer (180) is adapted to receive one or more input audio data streams wherein each input audio data stream comprises one ...

The present invention relates to the generation and cultivation of plant cell material in the form of a non tissue multilayer cell pack and its use for the accumulation or harvesting of a desired product. In particular the invention provides a method for the generation of plant cell material in the form of a medium ...

The invention provides an audio decoder device for decoding a bitstream the audio decoder device comprising: a bitstream receiver configured to receive the bitstream and to derive an encoded audio signal from the bitstream; a core decoder module configured for deriving a decoded audio signal in a time domain from t...

The present invention relates to a biofuel and to a process for production thereof, which biofuel contains at least one fraction of triglycerides, a fraction of monoglycerides, a fraction of diglycerides and a fraction of alkylesters of fatty acids. The biofuel may be obtained by partial transesterification of veget...

A solar cell, in particular for connecting to a solar cell module, including at least one metallic base contact, at least one metallic emitter contact (5) and a semi-conductor structure having at least one base area and at least one emitter area (3). The base area and emitter area (2,3) are at least partially adj...

An apparatus for providing a set of spatial cues associated with an upmix audio signal having more than two channels on the basis of a two-channel microphone signal comprises a signal analyzer and a spatial side information generator. The signal analyzer is configured to obtain a component energy information and ...

An audio decoder (100; 300) for providing a decoded audio information (112; 312) on the basis of an encoded audio information (110; 310) comprises an error concealment (130; 380; 500) configured to provide an error concealment audio information (132; 382; 512) for concealing a loss of an audio frame following an aud...

An audio decoder (200; 400) for providing a decoded audio information (220; 412) on the basis of an encoded audio information (210; 410). The audio decoder comprises an error concealment (240; 480; 600) configured to provide an error concealment audio information (242; 482; 612) for concealing a loss of an audio fra...

A transmission signal having a sequence of logical frames embed therein, is constructed such that each logical frame comprises a useful data section, wherein consecutive access units of an access unit stream are consecutively inserted into the useful data section of the sequence of logical frames, wherein each lo...

A multi-aperture imaging apparatus comprises at least one image sensor an array of optical channels arranged alongside one another wherein each optical channel has an optical unit for imaging at least one sub-region of an object region onto an image sensor region of the image sensor and a beam deflection device for ...

An encoder for encoding an audio signal comprises an analyzer configured for analyzing the audio signal and for determining analysis prediction coefficients from the audio signal. The encoder further comprises a converter configured for deriving converted prediction coefficients from the analysis prediction coeffici...

A concept is disclosed for outputting a file (12) having a media data container (16) and a metadata container (14), the concept comprising providing an error information (19) related to a data sample (20) and storing the error information together with a sample number (21) related to the data sample in the meta...

ABAccording to the invention the fibre direction of a carbon fibre material of an object (10) which is to be tested is detected using the polarisation direction of light (32) reflected by the object which is to be tested. If unpolarised light (30) for example is incident on carbon fibres (16) the light reflected by ...

Apparatus (100) for adapting a spatial audio signal (2) for an original loudspeaker setup to a playback loudspeaker setup that differs from the original loudspeaker setup. The apparatus comprises a direct ambience decomposer (130) that is configured to decomposing channel signals in a segment of the original loudspe...

A watermark generator for providing a watermark signal as a sequence of subsequent watermark coefficients based on a stream of subsequent stream values representing discrete valued data comprises a differential encoder. The differential encoder is configured to apply a phase rotation to a current stream value of the...

A multi-mode audio signal decoder for providing a decoded representation of an audio content on the basis of an encoded representation of the audio content comprises a spectral value determinator configured to obtain sets of decoded spectral coefficients for a plurality of portions of the audio content. The audio si...

A decoder for generating an audio output signal comprising one or more audio output channels is provided. The decoder comprises a receiving interface (110) for receiving an audio input signal comprising a plurality of audio object signals for receiving loudness information on the audio object signals and for receivi...

An audio encoder for providing an output signal using an input audio signal comprises a patch generator, a comparator and an output interface. The patch generator generates at least one bandwidth extension high-frequency signal, wherein a bandwidth extension high-frequency signal comprises a high-frequency band. The...

A multi aperture imaging device comprises an image sensor and an array of optical channels wherein each optical channel comprises an optical unit for imaging a partial field of vision of a total field of vision onto an image sensor region of the image sensor. The multi aperture imaging device comprises a beam deflec...

An apparatus for processing an audio signal is provided. The apparatus comprises a signal processor (110; 205; 405) and a configurator (120; 208; 408). The signal processor (110; 205; 405) is adapted to receive a first audio signal frame having a first configurable number of samples of the audio signal,Moreover,the ...

Binaural rendering a multi-channel audio signal into a binaural output signal (24) is described. The multi-channel audio signal comprises a stereo downmix signal (18) into which a plurality of audio signals are downmixed, and side information comprising a downmix information (DMG, DCLD) indicating, for each aud...

An audio encoder for encoding an audio signal comprises a first coding branch (400), the first coding branch comprising a first converter (410) for converting a signal from a time domain into a frequency domain. Furthermore, the audio encoder comprises a second coding branch (500) comprising a second time/frequen...

An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal (101) comprising bandwidth extension control data indicating either a first harmonic bandwidth extension mode or a second non harmonic bandwidth extension mode comprises: an input interface (100) for receiving the encoded audio signal comprising the bandwidth extens...

A more efficient co-use of dynamic range mapping on the one hand and temporal prediction on the other hand such as for example, in order to code HDR frame sequences, is achieved by exploiting the concept of weighted prediction in order to transition from the mapping parameter from the reference frame to the currentl...

The invention relates to a data transmitter (100) for transmitting a data packet (102) via a communication channel to a data receiver, wherein the data transmitter (100) comprises a device (104) for generating the data packet (102) and a device (106) for transmitting the data packet (102). The device (104) for gener...

An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an entropy encoded audio information comprises a context-based entropy decoder configured to decode the entropy-encoded audio information in dependence on a context, which context is based on a previously-decoded audio information in a non...

An apparatus (200) for computing filter coefficients (H[k,m]) for an adaptive filter (210) is disclosed. The adaptive filter is used for filtering a microphone signal (140, 430) so as to suppress an echo due to a loudspeaker signal (130, 420). The apparatus (200) comprises: an echo decay modeling means (465) for mod...

The invention relates to an unsaturated polyester resin containing a polyester or a polyester mixture produced from at least one unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and at least one diol; and at least one silazane which is accessible for copolymerisation with a C=C double bond of the dicarboxylic acid. The invention also ...

The invention relates to: bioprocess technology methods in which aqueous phases from anaerobically, biologically purified organic suspensions are fed into an algaculture as a culture media component; use of aqueous phases of anaerobically, biologically purified organic suspensions as a culture media component in an ...

A reverberator (10) for reverberating an audio signal (5) comprises a feedback delay loop processor (20) for delaying at least two different frequency subband signals (17) representing the audio signal (5) by different loop delays (23) to obtain reverberated frequency subband signals (27).

A further coding efficiency increase may be achieved if for a current block of a picture, for which the bit stream signals one of supported partitioning patterns,a reversal of the partitioning by block merging is avoided. In particular,if the signaled one of the supported partitioning patterns specifies a subdivisio...

An apparatus for deriving a directional information from a plurality of microphone signals or from a plurality of components of a microphone signal, wherein different effective microphone look directions are associated with the microphone signals or components, comprises a combiner configured to obtain a magnitude v...

For determining an estimate of a need for information units for encoding a signal, a measure (nl(b)) for the distribution of the energy in the frequency band is taken into account (102, 104, 106) in addition to the admissible interference for a frequency band and an energy of the frequency band. With this, a better...

The invention relates to hard material coated bodies composed of metal cemented hard material cermet or ceramic coated with a TiSiCN composite layer or with a multilayer layer system which contains at least one TiSiCN composite layer where the TiSiCN composite layer is according to the invention a nanocomposite laye...

An audio signal decoder for providing an upmix signal representation on the basis of a downmix signal representation and an object-related parametric information and in dependence on a rendering information comprises an object parameter determinator. The object parameter determinator is configured to obtain inter...

The present invention discloses polypeptides comprising an amino acid sequence being identical with at least 12 contiguous amino acid residues of SEQ ID No. 2. The polypeptides according to the invention are effective against fungi, especially against fungi causing plant diseases, and against fungi colonizing agr...

An audio decoder (2200) for providing a decoded audio information (2212) on the basis of an encoded audio information (2210) comprises an arithmetic decoder (2220) for providing a plurality of decoded spectral values (2224) on the basis of an arithmetically-encoded representation (2222) of the spectral values and a ...

The invention relates to an autostereoscopic display for simultaneously displaying more than two different images comprising a pixel matrix (11) having a multitude of pixels (15) distributed over different subgroups; an optical element (12) which is arranged in front of or behind the pixel matrix (11) which has a ...

An apparatus for calculating bandwidth extension data of an audio signal in a bandwidth extension system, in which a first spectral band is encoded with a first number of bits and a second spectral band different from the first spectral band is encoded with a second number of bits, the second number of bits bei...

An apparatus for generating a frequency enhancement signal (130) comprises: a signal generator (200) for generating an enhancement signal from a core signal (120 110) the enhancement signal comprising an enhancement frequency range not included in the core signal wherein a current time portion (320 340) of the enhan...

?The invention refers to an apparatus (1) for processing an encoded audio signal (100) comprising a plurality of downmix signals (101) associated with a plurality of input audio objects (111) and object parameters (E). The apparatus (1) comprises a grouper (2) configured to group the downmix signals (101) into group...

An idea used herein is to use the same function for the dependency of the context and the dependency of the symbolization parameter on previously coded/decoded transform coefficients. Using the same function  with varying function parameter  may even be used with respect to different transform block sizes and/or fre...

A compound comprising : •a photosensitizer covalently coupled to • a protein selected from the group consisting of antibodies or their derivatives or fragments thereof synthetic peptides such as scFv mimotopes •which bind CD antigens cytokine receptors interleukin receptors hormone receptors growth factor receptors ...

A raw byte sequence payload describing a picture in slices WPP substreams or tiles and coded using context adaptive binary arithmetic coding is subdivided or chopped into tranches with continuing the context adaptive binary arithmetic coding probability adaptation across tranche boundaries. By this measure tranche b...

A method generates a stream of data, wherein the stream comprises a plurality of encoded data blocks. The encoded data blocks comprise a plurality of self-contained blocks including all information for decoding the block and a plurality of blocks including only partial information for decoding. The distance of ...

An audio signal decoder (100) for providing a decoded audio signal representation on the basis of an encoded audio signal representation comprises a decoder preprocessing stage (110) for obtaining a plurality of frequency band signals from the encoded audio signal representation, a clipping estimator (120), a level ...

An apparatus (100) for processing an input audio signal (122) for reproduction by a sound transducer (130) comprises an equalization parameter determinator (110) for determining a set of equalization parameters (112) and an equalizer (120) configured to equalize the input audio signal (122) to obtain an equalized au...

The present invention is directed to nucleic acid sequences coding for a protein which (1) under a respective promoter is able to suppress or repress or delay flowering of a plant and (2) includes the motive "NAPDIIDS" or in preferred cases "VNAPDIIDS" with the exception of the nucleic acid of the gene StSP5G or a p...

A decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a phase adjusted audio signal is provided. The decoder comprises a decoding unit (1 10) and a phase adjustment unit (120). The decoding unit (110) is adapted to decode the encoded audio signal to obtain a decoded audio signal. The phase adjustment unit (120) i...

A codec allowing for switching between different coding modes is improved by responsive to a switching instance performing temporal smoothing and/or blending at a respective transition.

A basic idea of the present application is that in case of determining a position of the object (10) on the surface, it is possible to also use transport mechanisms for the transport of the object on the surface which leads to less reproducible transport movements as the regulation may be executed directly on the...

An apparatus for providing an upmix signal representation on the basis of a downmix signal representation and an object-related parametric information, which are included in a bitstream representation of an audio content, in independence on a user-specified rendering matrix, the apparatus comprises a distortion l...

An apparatus for generating an audio output signal to simulate a recording of a virtual microphone at a configurable virtual position in an environment is provided. The apparatus comprises a sound events position estimator and an information computation module (120). The sound events position estimator (110) is adap...

The invention relates to an autostereoscopic screen for the simultaneous reproduction of several different images with a pixel matrix (21) on which a multitude of at least six or at least eight disjoint subsets of pixels (25) are defined such that each of the subsets forms a family of parallel strips of pixels (25) ...

A method and an apparatus for synthesizing an audio signal are described. A spectral tilt is applied to the code of a codebook (202) used for synthesizing a current frame of the audio signal. The spectral tilt is based on the spectral tilt of the current frame of the audio signal. Further an audio decoder operating ...

An apparatus for capturing audio information from a target location is provided. The apparatus comprises a first beamformer (110) being arranged in a recording environment and having a first recording characteristic, a second beamformer (120) being arranged in the recording environment and having a second recording ...

An apparatus for generating an encoded signal comprises: a window sequence controller (808) for generating a window sequence information (809) for windowing an audio or image signal the window sequence information indicating a first window (1500) for generating a first frame of spectral values a second window functi...

An apparatus for generating at least one audio output signal based on an audio data stream comprising audio data relating to one or more sound sources is provided. The apparatus comprises a receiver for receiving the audio data stream comprising the audio data. The audio data comprises one or more pressure values fo...

An apparatus for decomposing a signal having an number of at least three channels comprises an analyzer (16) for analyzing a similarity between two channels of an analysis signal related to the signal having at least two analysis channels, wherein the analyzer is configured for using a pre calculated frequency depen...

An apparatus for decomposing an input signal having a number of at least three input channels comprises a downmixer (12) for downmixing the input signal to obtain a downmixed signal having a smaller number of channels. Furthermore, an analyzer (16) for analyzing the downmixed signal to derive an analysis result is p...

The invention provides an audio encoder and method for encoding a non speech audio signal so as to produce therefrom a bitstream the audio encoder comprising: a combination (2 3) of a linear predictive coding filter (2) having a plurality of linear predictive coding coefficients (LC) and a time frequency converter (...

Subject of the invention is an apparatus (2) described by a schematic block diagram for processing an audio signal (4) to obtain a processed audio signal (6). The apparatus (2) comprises a phase calculator (8) for calculating phase values (10) for spectral values of a sequence of frequency domain frames (12) represe...

A schematic block diagram of an audio encoder (2) for encoding a multichannel audio signal (4) is shown. The audio encoder comprises a linear prediction domain encoder (6) a frequency domain encoder (8) and a controller (10) for switching between the linear prediction domain encoder (6) and the frequency domain enco...

Audio encoder (2") for encoding a multichannel signal (4) is shown. The audio encoder comprises a downmixer (12) for downmixing the multichannel signal (4) to obtain a downmix signal (14) a linear prediction domain core encoder (16) for encoding the downmix signal (14) wherein the downmix signal (14) has a low band ...

An encoder (100) for predictively encoding a signal (105) having a sequence of signal values (s(n)) comprises a predictor (110) for performing an adaptive prediction in dependence on the signal (105) (s(n)) and in dependence on one or more weighting values (111) (ω1) to obtain predicted signal values (115) (s’(n)), ...

The invention relates to a fluid medium for the surface treatment of monocrystalline wafers, which contains an alkaline etching agent and at least one organic compound with low volatility. Systems of this type can be used either for cleaning, the removal of defects and the texturing of wafer surfaces in a single etc...

An apparatus for improving a perceived quality of sound reproduction of an audio output signal is provided. The apparatus comprises an active noise cancellation unit (110) for generating a noise cancellation signal based on an environmental audio signal, wherein the environmental audio signal comprises noise signal ...

A schematic block diagram of a decoder 2 for decoding an encoded audio signal 4 is shown. The decoder comprises an adaptive spectrum time converter 6 and an overlap add processor 8. The adaptive spectrum time converter converts successive blocks of spectral values 4 into successive blocks of time values 10 e.g. via ...

An encoder for encoding an audio signal. The encoder is configured to encode the audio signal in a transform domain or filter bank domain wherein the encoder is configured to determine spectral coefficients of the audio signal for a current frame and at least one previous frame wherein the encoder is configured to s...

An apparatus (300) for converting a first parametric spatial audio signal representing a first listening position or a first listening orientation in a spatial audio scene to a second parametric spatial audio signal (112, 114) representing a second listening position or a second listening orientation is described...

An audio encoder for providing an output signal using an input audio signal comprises a patch generator, a comparator and an output interface. The patch generator generates at least one bandwidth extension high-frequency signal, wherein a bandwidth extension high-frequency signal comprises a high-frequency band...

An encoder for encoding an audio signal into a data stream comprises a predictor a factorizer a transformer and a quantize and encode stage. The predictor is configured to analyze the audio signal in order to obtain prediction coefficients describing a spectral analog of the audio signal or a fundamental frequency o...

The task of relevance score assignment to a set of items onto which an artificial neural network is applied is obtained by redistributing an initial relevance score derived from the network output onto the set of items by reversely propagating the initial relevance score through the artificial neural network so as t...

An audio encoder (100) for providing an encoded representation (102) on the basis of an audio signal (104) wherein the audio encoder (100) is configured to obtain a noise information (106) describing a noise included in the audio signal (104) and wherein the audio encoder (100) is configured to adaptively encode the...

The invention relates to an arrangement of electrochemical cells and the uses of same. The electrochemical cells are arranged one above the other and are connected to each other in an electrically conductive manner. In this way the electrochemical cells form repeating units each of which is designed with at least on...

The invention provides an audio encoder device comprising: an audio encoder configured for producing an encoded audio bitstream from an audio signal comprising consecutive audio frames; a dynamic range control encoder configured for producing an encoded dynamic range control bitstream from an dynamic range control s...

An apparatus for generating an error concealment signal comprises: an LPC representation generator (100) for generating a replacement LPC representation; a gain calculator (600) for calculating a gain information from the LPC representations; a compensator (406 408) for compensating a gain influence of the replaceme...

An apparatus for decoding (10; 40; 60; 410), an apparatus for encoding (510), a method for decoding and a method for encoding positions of slots comprising events in an audio signal frame and respective computer programs and encoded signals, wherein the apparatus for decoding (10; 40; 60; 410) comprises: an analysin...

Parallel processing concepts such as wavefront parallel processing are realized with a reduced end to end delay by giving up the usual slice concept according to which slices are either coded/decoded completely independent from areas of the picture outside of the respective slice or at least independent from areas o...

An apparatus for extracting a direct and/or ambience signal from a downmix signal and spatial parametric information the downmix signal and the spatial parametric information representing a multi channel audio signal having more channels than the downmix signal wherein the spatial parametric information comprises ...

Decomposing a value range of the respective syntax elements into a sequence of n partitions with coding the components of z laying within the respective partitions separately with at least one by VCL coding and with at least one by PIPE or entropy coding is used to greatly increase the compression efficiency at a mo...

Complexes suitable for targeting and killing a human target cell comprising a first polypeptide with a binding structure for binding the complex to the cellular surface receptor CD89 (e.g. with an anti CD89 antibody) presented on the cell surface of the human target cell and a second polypeptide comprising a toxic e...

The present invention relates to a method for producing a thermoelectric component with at least one pair of thermoelectric legs, including an n-leg and a p-leg, wherein both legs are welded to an electrically conductive contact material, wherein the n-leg and the p-leg of the pair of legs are welded in separate wel...

A method for producing a solar cell from a silicon wafer, including the following process steps: A) texturizing one side of the silicon substrate (1) for improving the absorption or removing saw damage on one side of the silicon substrate (1); B) generating an emitter area (2) on one side of the silicon substrate...

A calculation unit for a sound system comprises input means a processor and output means. The input means have the purpose to receive an audio stream to be reproduced using the sound system. The output means has the purpose to control the sound system based on a first and a second plurality of individual audio signa...

An audio mixer for mixing a plurality of audio tracks to a mixture signal comprises a semantic command interpreter (30; 35) for receiving a semantic mixing command and for deriving a plurality of mixing parameters for the plurality of audio tracks from the semantic mixing command; an audio track processor (70; 75) f...

An audio post processor (100) for post processing an audio signal (102) having a time variable high frequency gain information (104) as side information comprises: a band extractor (110) for extracting a high frequency band (112) of the audio signal (102) and a low frequency band (114) of the audio signal (102); a h...

An apparatus (100) for generating spectral replacement values for an audio signal is provided. The apparatus (100) comprises a buffer unit (110) for storing previous spectral values relating to a previously received error free audio frame. Moreover the apparatus (100) comprises a concealment frame generator (120) fo...

An apparatus for decoding (100) an encoded audio signal (102). A first decoder (110a) decodes a first portion (104a) in accordance with a first decoding algorithm for a first time portion of the encoded signal (102) to obtain a first decoded signal (114a). A second decoder (110b) decodes a second portion (104b) in a...

The spectral domain is efficiently used in order to parameterize the background noise thereby yielding a background noise synthesis which is more realistic and thus leads to a more transparent active to inactive phase switching.

An upmixer for upmixing a downmix audio signal into an upmixed audio signal describing one or more upmixed audio channels comprises a parameter applier configured to apply upmixing parameters to upmix the downmix audio signal in order to obtain the upmixed audio signal. The parameter applier is configured to ap...

An apparatus for obtaining a parameter describing a variation of a signal characteristic of a signal on the basis of actual transform-domain parameters describing the audio signal in transform-domain comprises a parameter determinator. The parameter determinator is configured to determine one or more model para...

An apparatus for encoding an audio signal having a stream of audio samples (100) comprises: a windower (102) for applying a prediction coding analysis window (200) to the stream of audio samples to obtain windowed data for a prediction analysis and for applying a transform coding analysis window (204) to the stream ...

An apparatus for coding a portion of an audio signal (10) to obtain an encoded audio signal (26) for the portion of the audio signal comprises a transient detector (12) for detecting whether a transient signal is located in the portion of the audio signal to obtain a transient detection result (14), an encoder stage...

An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal, wherein one or more tracks are associated with the encoded audio signal, each one of the tracks having a plurality of track positions and a plurality of pulses is provided. The apparatus comprises a pulse information decoder (110) and a signal decoder (120). The pul...

An encoding concept which is linear prediction based and uses spectral domain noise shaping is rendered less complex at a comparable coding efficiency in terms of for example rate/distortion ratio by using the spectral decomposition of the audio input signal into a spectrogram comprising a sequence of spectra for bo...

An apparatus for determining a measure for a perceived level of reverberation in a mix signal consisting of a direct signal component (100) and a reverberation signal component (102), comprises a loudness model processor (104) comprising a perceptual filter stage for filtering the dry signal component (100) the reve...

An apparatus for manipulating an audio signal comprising a transient event comprises a transient signal replacer configured to replace a transient signal portion, comprising the transient event of the audio signal, with a replacement signal portion adapted to signal energy characteristics of one or more transient...

A parametric background noise estimate is continuously updated during an active or non- silence phase so that the noise generation may immediately be started with upon the entrance of an inactive phase following the active phase. In accordance with another aspect, a spectral domain is very efficiently used in order ...

An audio codec supporting both, time-domain and frequency-domain coding modes, having low-delay and an increased coding efficiency in terms of iterate/distortion ratio, is obtained by configuring the audio encoder such that same operates in different operating modes such that if the active operative mode is a first ...

An apparatus converting sequences of blocks of sample values of at least two channels into sequences of blocks of spectral values wherein a block of sampling values has an input sampling rate a multi channel processor (1010) for applying a joint multi channel processing to the sequences of blocks or to resampled seq...

A watermark generator (2400) for providing a watermark signal (2420) in dependence on binary message data (2410) comprises an information processor (2430) configured to provide, in dependence on a single message bit of the binary message data, a 2-dimensional spread information (2432) representing the message bit in...

A system for generating one or more audio output signals is provided. The system comprises a decomposition module (101) a signal processor (105) and an output interface (106). The signal processor (105) is configured to receive the direct component signal the diffuse component signal and direction information said d...

An approach is described that obtains spectrum coefficients for a replacement frame (m) of an audio signal. A tonal component of a spectrum of an audio signal is detected based on a peak that exists in the spectra of frames preceding a replacement frame (m). For the tonal component of the spectrum a spectrum coeffic...

Exact data-rate analysis of the information signal portions to be transmitted in a subsequent transmission cycle per time-division multiplexing process shall be initially omitted. Instead, on the basis of highly accurate estimated values for the subsequent data rates, estimated values for relative waiting times (...

An apparatus for processing an input audio signal (2300) relies on a cascade of filterbanks, the cascade comprising a synthesis filterbank (2304) for synthesizing an audio intermediate signal (2306) from the input audio signal (2300), the input audio signal being represented by a plurality of first subband signals (...

Apparatus for processing an audio signal to generate a bandwidth extended signal having a high frequency part and a low frequency part using parametric data for the high frequency part the parametric data relating to frequency bands of the high frequency part comprises a patch border calculator (2302) for calculatin...

A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to...

An audio encoder and an audio decoder are based on a combination of two audio channels (201 202) to obtain a first combination signal (204) as a mid signal and a residual signal (205) which can be derived using a predicted side signal derived from the mid signal. The first combination signal and the prediction resid...

A signal processor for providing a processed version of an input signal in dependence on the input signal comprises a windower configured to window a portion of the input signal, or of a pre-processed version thereof, in dependence on a signal processing window described by signal processing window values for a plur...

A device (100) for generating a frequency shifted audio signal on the basis of an audio input signal is produced. The device (100) comprises an interface (110) and a frequency shift unit (120). The interface (110) is designed to receive the audio input signal. The frequency shift unit (120) is designed to generate t...

The invention relates to a heat transfer device with ducts for heat absorbing media and ducts for heat emitting media wherein at least one of the ducts has a textile structure with compressed and non compressed regions. While the compressed regions are arranged in the transition regions between the ducts in order to...

An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal is provided. The apparatus comprises a receiving interface (1110) for receiving one or more frames a coefficient generator (1120) and a signal reconstructor (1130). The coefficient generator (1120) is configured to determine if ...

The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis, multi channel surround, or stereo signals after decoding the source signals. The proposed technique offers significant coding gain when jointly coding the s...

The navigation overhead and/or the content managing/updating overhead is reduced by providing link objects with condition data being associated with the link items of the link objects so that, depending on a check as to whether the condition data is fulfilled or not, an automatic handling of a link object may be ...

An apparatus for decoding an audio signal is provided. The apparatus comprises a receiving interface (110) wherein the receiving interface (110) is configured to receive a first frame comprising a first audio signal portion of the audio signal and wherein the receiving interface (110) is configured to receive a seco...

This invention refers to hybrid pre-polymers and polymers, produced through conversion from difunctional, oligofunctional and/or polyfunctionai cyanates and/or from their pre-polymers with monomeric, oligomeric and/or polymeric silazanes. The polymers are duromers with high glass transition temperature and fracture ...

The invention provides a method for the generation of a monoclonal plant cell line from a heterologous population of plant cells comprising the following steps: (a) provision of a heterologous population of plant cells; (b) preparation of protoplasts from said heterologous population of plant cells; (c) separation o...

A projection display comprising an imaging unit is described, said imaging unit being designed to generate individual images in a distribution, such as e.g. a two-dimensional distribution, of partial regions of an imaging plane of the imaging unit, and a multi-channel optical unit, which is configured to image per c...

An apparatus (500) according to an embodiment of the present invention for mixing a first frame (540-1) of a first input data stream (510-1) and a second frame (540-2) of a second input data stream (510-2) comprises a processing unit (520) adapted to generate an output frame (550), wherein the output frame (550...

An apparatus for generating a stereo output signal comprises a manipulation information generator (110; 210; 340; 440; 640) being adapted to generate manipulation information depending on a first signal indication value of a first input channel and on a second signal indication value of a second input channel and a ...

An apparatus for processing an audio signal comprises an overlap-add stage for overlapping and adding blocks of a corresponding one of a plurality of subband signals using an overlap- add-advance value being different from a block extraction advance value. The apparatus further comprises a transient detector for det...

A watermark decoder comprises a time frequency domain representation provider a memory unit a synchronization determiner and a watermark extractor. The time Frequency domain representation provider provides a frequency domain representation of the watermarked signal for a plurality of time blocks. The memory unit...

An audio decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal (10), the encoded audio signal (10) comprising a first channel element (52a) and a second channel element (52b) in a payload section (52) of a data stream and first decoder configuration data (50c) for the first channel element (52a) and second decoder configurat...

A better compromise between encoding complexity and achievable rate distortion ratio, and/or to achieve a better rate distortion ratio is achieved by using multitree sub divisioning not only in order to subdivide a continuous area namely the sample array, into leaf regions but using the intermediate regions also to ...

An audio encoder for encoding an audio signal comprises: a first encoding processor (600) for encoding a first audio signal portion in a frequency domain wherein the first encoding processor (600) comprises: a time frequency converter for converting the first audio signal portion into a frequency domain representati...

A better compromise between a too high bitstream and decoding overhead on the one hand and flexibility of frame element positioning on the other hand is achieved by arranging that each of the sequence of frames of the bitstream comprises a sequence of N frame elements and, on the other hand, the bitstream comprises ...

An audio signal decoder configured to provide a decoded audio signal representation on the basis of an encoded audio signal representation comprising a sampling frequency information, an encoded time warp information and an encoded spectrum representation comprises a time warp calculator and a warp decoder. The time...

It is shown a calculator 270 for determining phase correction data 295 for an audio signal 55. The calculator comprises a variation determiner 275 for determining a variation of a phase of the audio signal 55 in a first and a second variation mode a variation comparator 280 for comparing a first variation 290a deter...

Audio data processor comprising: a receiver interface for receiving encoded audio data and metadata related to the encoded audio data; a metadata parser for parsing the metadata to determine an audio data manipulation possibility; an interaction interface for receiving an interaction input and for generating from th...

It is shown a decoder 110" for decoding an audio signal 32. The decoder 110" comprises a first target spectrum generator 65a for generating a target spectrum 85a" for a first time frame of a subband signal of the audio signal 32 using first correction data 295a. A first phase corrector 70a for corrects a phase 45 of...

An apparatus for selecting one of a first encoding algorithm having a first characteristic and a second encoding algorithm having a second characteristic for encoding a portion of an audio signal to obtain an encoded version of the portion of the audio signal, comprises a filter configured to receive the audio si...

The invention relates to a solvent based plastics recycling method which can reclaim polymers from polymer containing plastics waste materials. The method is based on the use of a solvent which has been doped with heat stabilizer and which takes the form of solid liquid extraction process to extract polymers at temp...

The present invention relates to a method of obtaining protein preparations from sunflower seeds as well as protein preparations produced with the method. In the method the sunflower seeds are dehulled to a residual hull content of ≤ 5% by weight or dehulled sunflower seeds with a residual hull content of ≤ 5% by we...

A text-based information transmission is made complying with a greater number of transport-layer systems by performing the fragmentation and de-fragmentation of the information object at the application-layer side rather than at transport-layer domain. By this manner, the text- based information service is not ...

An apparatus for modifying an input audio signal comprises an excitation determiner, a storage device and a signal modifier. The excitation determiner determines a value of an excitation parameter of a subband of a plurality of subbands of the input audio signal based on an energy content of the subband. Further, th...

The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis, multi channel surround, or stereo signals after decoding the source signals. The proposed technique offers significant coding gain when jointly coding the s...

A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the necessity to signal the inter plane prediction information to the decoder. In particu...

A watermark signal provider for providing a watermark signal in dependence on a time frequency-domain representation of watermark data, in which the time-frequency-domain representation comprises values associated to frequency subbands and bit intervals, the watermark signal provider comprises a time-frequency-domai...

A signal manipulator for manipulating an audio signal having a transient event may comprise a transient remover (100), a signal processor (110) and a signal inserter (120) for inserting a time portion in a processed audio signal at a signal location where the transient event was removed before processing by said ...

An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal is provided. The apparatus comprises a receiving interface (1210) for receiving one or more frames comprising information on a plurality of audio signal samples of an audio signal spectrum of the encoded audio signal and a proce...

An apparatus for generating an enhanced downmix signal on the basis of a multi channel microphone signal comprises a spatial analyzer configured to compute a set of spatial cue parameters comprising a direction information describing a direction of arrival of a direct sound, a direct sound power information and a di...

A watermark signal provider (2400) for providing a watermark signal (2440) suitable for being hidden in an audio signal (2430) when the watermark signal is added to the audio signal,such that the watermark signal represents watermark data (2450) is described. The watermark signal provider comprises a psychoacoustica...

An acoustic echo suppression unit (210) according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises and input interface (230) for extracting a downmix signal (310) from an input signal (300), the input signal comprising the downmix signal (310) and parametric side information (320), wherein the downmix and th...

A watermark generator (2400) for providing a watermark signal (2420) in dependence on binary message data (2410), comprises an information processor (2430) configured to provide, in dependence on information units of the binary message data a first time frequency domain representation (2432), values of which represe...

An audio signal decoder configured to provide a decoded audio signal representation on the basis of an encoded audio signal representation comprising a time warp contour evolution information comprises a time warp contour calculator, a time warp contour data rescaler and a warp decoder. The time warp contour calc...

The invention relates to a method for storing and releasing heat by means of a phase change material. In said method, a phase change is caused in a first heat exchanging device (4) by supplying heat during a charging process in a storage medium comprising a phase change material in order to store the heat as latent ...

An embedder for embedding a watermark to be embedded into an input information representation comprises an embedding parameter determiner that is implemented to apply a derivation function once or several times to an initial value to obtain an embedding parameter for embedding the watermark into the input informa...

An audio signal decoder (150 for providing a decoded audio signal representation (154) on the basis of an encoded audio signal representation (152) comprising an encoded spectrum representation (ac_spectral_data[]) and an encoded time warp information (tw_data[]) comprises a context based spectral value decoder (160...

An apparatus for generating an audio output signal based on an encoded audio signal spectrum is provided. The apparatus comprises a processing unit (110), a pseudo coefficients determiner (120), a spectrum modification unit (130), a spectrum time conversion unit (140), a controllable oscillator (150) and a mixer (16...

A decoder for decoding a video from a data stream into which horizontal and vertical components of motion vector differences are coded using binarizations of the horizontal and vertical components is described, the binarizations equaling a truncated unary code of the horizontal and vertical components, respectively,...

The invention relates to a device and a method for simultaneous microstructuring and doping of semiconductor substrates with boron, in which the semiconductor substrate is treated with a laser beam coupled into a liquid jet, the liquid jet comprising at least one boron compound. The method according to the invention...

In accordance with an embodiments, a favorable merging or grouping of simply connected regions into which the array of information samples is sub-divided, is coded with a reduced amount of data. To this end, for the simply connected regions, a predetermined relative locational relationship is defined enabling an ide...

A signal processor for providing a processed version of an input signal in dependence on the input signal comprises a windower configured to window a portion of the input signal, or of a pre-processed version thereof, in dependence on a signal processing window described by signal processing window values for a plur...

An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal is provided. The apparatus comprises a receiving interface (1310) for receiving a plurality of frames a delay buffer (1020; 1320) for storing audio signal samples of the decoded audio signal a sample selector (1030; 1330) for se...

An information signal reconstructor is configured to reconstruct, using aliasing cancellation, an information signal from a lapped transform representation of the information signal comprising for each of consecutive overlapping regions of the information signal a transform of a windowed version of the respective re...

An apparatus for modifying an audio signal comprises an envelope shape determiner a filterbank processor a signal processor a combiner and an envelope shaper. The envelope shape determiner determines envelope shape coefficients based on the a frequency domain audio signal representing a time domain input audio si...

An apparatus for providing one or more adjusted parameters for a provision of an upmix signal representation on the basis of a downmix signal representation and an object-related parametric information comprises a parameter adjuster. The parameter adjuster is configured to receive one or more input parameters and...

Frame elements which shall be made available for skipping may are transmitted more efficiently by arranging that a default payload length information is transmitted separately within a configuration block, with the length information within the frame elements, in turn being subdivided into a default payload length f...

An apparatus for generating four or more audio output signals is provided. The apparatus comprises a panning gain determiner (110) and a signal processor (120). The panning gain determiner (110) is configured to determine a proper subset from a set of five or more loudspeaker positions so that the proper subset comp...

Coding schemes for coding a spatially sampled information signal using sub-division and coding schemes for coding a sub-division or a multitree structure are described, wherein representative embodiments relate to picture and/or video coding applications.

An apparatus for generating a stereo side signal having a first side channel and a second side channel from a stereo input signal having a first input channel and a second input channel is provided. The apparatus comprises a modification information generator (110) for generating modification information based on mi...

A decoder for decoding a video from a data stream into which syntax elements are coded using binarizations of the syntax elements, comprises an entropy decoder configured to derive a number of bins of the binarizations from the data stream using binary entropy decoding by selecting a context among different contexts...

An apparatus (100) for determining a spatial output multi-channel audio signal based on an input audio signal and an input parameter. The apparatus (100) comprises a decomposer (110) for decomposing the input audio signal based on the input parameter to obtain a first decomposed signal and a second decomposed s...

An input audio signal having an input temporal envelope is converted into an output audio signal having an output temporal envelope. The input temporal envelope of the input audio signal is characterized. The input audio signal is processed to generate a processed audio signal, wherein the processing de-correlate...

The entropy coding of a current part of a predetermined entropy slice is based on, not only, the respective probability estimations of the predetermined entropy slice as adapted using the previously coded part of the predetermined entropy slice, but also probability estimations as used in the entropy coding of a spa...

The invention relates to semiconductor components, in particular solar cells made of III-V compound semiconductors, as are used in terrestrial PV concentrator systems or for electrical energy supply in satellites. However it is also used in other optoelectronic components, such as lasers and light diodes, where eith...

The present invention relates to a digital right management device (20), the device comprising a memory area (22) for storing information on a rights object that has been transferred from the DRM device (20) to another DRM device, wherein the rights object comprises permissions linked to a digital media object, a...

A transport stream provider for providing a plurality of transport stream packets describing digital media information is configured to provide a transport stream packet of a first packet type comprising a program association table and key information for decrypting encrypted media information. The program associ...

An apparatus for generating a multi-channel output signal performs a center channel cancellation to obtain improved base channels for reconstructing left-side output channels or right-side output channels. In particular, the apparatus includes a cancellation channel calculator (20) for calculating a cancellation cha...

The invention relates to a method for carrying out homogenous immunoassay formats with highly sensitive electrochemical detection in solution characterized in that two different conjugates are combined as reagents with the sample or a sample/buffer mixture wherein one conjugate comprises a redox marker and an analyt...

A device (100) for controlling a service access authorization for a user device with regard to an access-restricted service includes a service access authorization provider (101), the service access authorization provider (101) being configured to set a period of time in which the service access authorization (10...

The purpose of the invention is to bridge the gap between parametric multi-channel audio coding and matrixed-surround multi-channel coding by gradually improving the sound of an up-mix signal while raising the bit-rate consumed by the side-information starting from 0 up to the bit-rates of the parametric methods. M...

The invention relates to a method for producing a metal contact structure of a photovoltaic solar cell, comprising the following method steps: applying an electrically non conductive insulating layer to a surface of a semiconductor substrate, applying a metal contact layer to the insulating layer, and generating a p...

In a multi-channel encoder generating several different parameter sets for reconstructing a multi-channel output signal using at least one transmission channel, the data stream is written such that the two parameter sets are decodable independently of each other. Thus, a multi-channel decoder is enabled to skip a pa...

A solar cell having a semiconductor substrate with a front face and a rear face extending substantially parallel thereto, a front face metallization, a rear face metallization and at least three doped regions having at least two different conductivity types, including: a first doped region with a first conductivi...

An audio signal decoder for providing an upmix signal representation in dependence on a downmix signal representation and an object-related parametric information comprises an object separator configured to decompose the downmix signal representation, to provide a first audio information describing a first set of...

For flexibly signaling a synchronous mode or an asynchronous mode in the multi-channel parameter reconstruction, a parameter configuration cue is inserted in the data stream, which is used by a configuration means on the side of a multi-channel decoder to configure a multi-channel reconstruction means. If the parame...

A video coder performs a motion-compensated prediction (1906, 1012, 1014, 1016) both in the base layer (1002) and in an enhancement layer (1004) to determine motion data of the enhancement layer by using the motion data from the base layer and/or to predict sequences of residual error pictures after the motion-...

In the scalable video coding in connection with motion compensation (1006, 1014) both in a base layer (1002) and in an enhancement layer, a prediction (1014, 1016) of the motion data of the enhancement layer (1004) is performed by using the motion data of the base layer (1004) to obtain a scalability concept, w...

A parameter transformer generates level parameters, indicating an energy relation between a first and a second audio channel of a multi-channel audio signal associated to a multi-channel loudspeaker configuration. The level parameter are generated based on object parameters for a plurality of audio objects associate...

An embodiment of an analysis filterbank for filtering a plurality of time domain input frames, wherein an input frame comprises a number of ordered input samples, comprises a windower configured to generating a plurality of windowed frames, wherein a windowed frame comprises a plurality of windowed samples, wherein...

For postprocessing spectral values which are based on a first transformation algorithm for converting the audio signal into a spectral representation, first a sequence of blocks of the spectral values representing a sequence of blocks of samples of the audio signal are provided. Here- upon, a weighted addition ...

A method for the production of fungus resistant transgenic plants, plant cells or plant tissue comprising the introduction of an Ab, rAb, rAb fragment or fusion or vector of the invention or the vectors of the composition of the invention into the genome of a plant, plant cell or plant cell tissue and a transgenic p...

An apparatus for decoding data segments representing a time-domain data stream, a data segment being encoded in the time domain or in the frequency domain, a data segment being encoded in the frequency domain having successive blocks of data representing successive and overlapping blocks of time-domain data samples...

In the transition into the logarithmic range, not the entire bit width of the result linearly dependent upon the square of the value must be considered. Rather, it is possible to scale the result of a. value with x bits such that a representation with less than x bits of the result is sufficient to obtain the l...

For synthesizing at least three output channels using two stereo input channels, the stereo input channels are analyzed (15) to detect signal components occurring in both input channels. A signal generator (16) is operative to introduce at least a part of the detected signal components into the second channel (...

Interleaver for scrambling an information word, the information word comprising a multitude of digits, for obtaining a permuted information word. The interleaver includes a first interleaver stage for a row-by-row arranging of the digits of the information word in a plurality of first rows and first columns, and a s...

The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis, multi- channel surround, or stereo signals after decoding the source signals. The proposed technique offers significant coding gain when jointly coding the ...

A multi-channel encoder/decoder scheme additionally preferably generates a waveform-type residual signal (16). This residual signal is transmitted (18) together with one or more multi-channel parameters (14) to a decoder. In contrast to a purely parametric multi-channel decoder, the enhanced decoder generates a...

The invention relates to a bio-fuel mixture, which is composed of a fraction of fatty acid alkyl esters and at least one fraction of bonded glycerine with a quantity of = 1 wt. % in relation to the glycerine skeleton and to a method and a device for producing the bio-fuel mixture. The bio-fuel mixture can be produce...

If an adaptive prediction algorithm controllable by a speed coefficient is started from to operate with a first adaption speed and a first adaption precision and an accompanying first prediction precision in the case that the speed coefficient has a first value and to operate with a second, compared to the first one...

Coding an audio signal of a sequence of audio values into a coded signal includes determining a first listening threshold for a first block of audio values of the sequence of audio values and a second listening threshold for a second block of audio values of the sequence of audio values; calculating a version of a f...

For determining a quantizer step size for quantizing a signal comprising audio or video information, a first quantizer step size as well as an interference threshold are provided (502). Then, the actual interference introduced by the first quantizer step size is determined (504) and compared with the interference th...

The present invention is based on the finding that parameters including a first set of parameters of a representation of a first portion of an original signal and including a second set of parameters of a representation of a second portion of the original signal can be efficiently encoded, when the parameters are a...

Processing of information signals separated according to modulation and carrier components in a more controlled way is made possible by a device for processing an information signal (14) including means (20) for converting the information signal (14) to a time/spectral representation by block-wise transforming of th...

An apparatus for performing a correlation between a test sound signal (270) replayable at variable speed and a reference sound signal (274), which is a digitally stored version of the test sound signal (270), is described, the apparatus comprising a means (210) for determining a measure for a test replay speed ...

A processed representation of an audio signal having a sequence of frames is generated by sampling the audio signal within a first and a second frame of the sequence of frames/ the second frame following the first frame, the sampling using information on a pitch contour of the first and the second frame to deri...

An audio encoder for encoding an audio signal includes an impulse extractor (10) for extracting an impulse-like portion from the audio signal. This impulse-like portion is encoded and forwarded to an output interface (22). Furthermore, the audio encoder includes a signal encoder (16) which encodes a residual signal ...

The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a ceramic component of desired final geometry using at least a cellulose-containing semi-finished moulded part, which is pyrolysed in non- oxidizing gas atmosphere. In order to manufacture complex components, it is suggested that at least two semi-finished ...

An apparatus (600) for processing stored data packets (110; 112) in a media data container (104) and stored associated meta information in a metadata container (106), the associated meta information comprising transport timing information and location information indicating a storage location of the stored data...

The invention relates to a method for simultaneously doping and oxidizing semiconductor substrates and to doped and oxidized semiconductor substrates which have been produced in this manner. The invention also relates to the use of this method for producing solar cells.

The invention relates to a method for metallising semiconductor elements in which aluminium is used. A cost advantage can be achieved, in particularly, for products in which process costs play an important part, for example, solar cells made from silicon. The invention further relates to the use of said method, for ...

An input multi-channel representation is converted into a different output multi-channel representation of a spatial audio signal, in that an intermediate representation of the spatial audio signal is derived, the intermediate representation having direction parameters indicating a direction of origin of a portion...

In the context of packet-oriented data transmission via a network, an apparatus for transmitting a sequence of data packets checks whether a packet is missing or faulty. In this case, a replacement packet is provided which is a valid packet with regard to a packet syntax which, however, has a predetermined cont...

An audio signal having at least one audio channel and associated direction parameters indicating a direction of origin of a portion of the audio channel with respect to a recording position is reconstructed to derive a reconstructed audio signal. A desired direction of origin with respect to the recording posi...

The invention relates to a material for the formation of protective layers resistant to high temperatures on chromium oxide forming substrates, to a manufacturing method and to a use of these materials. It is suitable for a use as a chromium evaporation layer for metallic alloys containing chromium in the high tempe...

An apparatus for processing a multi-channel signal includes a means (12) for determining a similarity between a first one of two channels and a second one of the two channels. Furthermore, a means (16) for performing a prediction filtering of the spectral coefficients is provided, which is formed to perform a predic...

The invention relates to method for dispersing and passivating particulate powders in water and aqueous media. It is particularly advantageously applicable in the handling and processing of non-oxidic powders, e.g. in the ceramic and hard-metal industry. In the method claimed auxiliaries are added due to the proce...

A multi-channel synthesizer includes a post processor(10) for determining post processed reconstruction parameters or quantities derived from the reconstruction parameter for an actual time portion of the input signal so that the post processed reconstruction parameter or the post processed quantity is different fro...

At an audio encoder, cue codes are generated for one or more audio channels, wherein a combined cue code (e.g., a combined inter-channel correlation (ICC) code) is generated by combining two or more estimated cue codes, each estimated cue code estimated from a group of two or more channels. At an audio decoder,...

A stereo signal with enhanced perceptual quality using a mid-signal and a side-signal, can be generated, when a enhanced side signal is created prior to the upmix of the stereo signal. A decorrelated representation of at least a portion of the sum signal and/or a decorrelated representation of at least a portio...

An apparatus for extracting an ambient signal from an input audio signal comprises a gain-value determinator configured to determine a sequence of time-varying ambient signal gain values for a given frequency band of the time-frequency distribution of the input audio signal in dependence on the input audio sign...

In order to generate a multi-channel signal comprising a number of output channels greater than a number of input channels, a mixer is used for upmixing the input signal to form at least a direct channel signal and at least an ambience channel signal. A speech detector (18) is provided for detecting a section of ...

A method for decoding a multi-audio-object signal having an audio signal of a first type and an audio signal of a second type encoded therein is described, the multi-audio- object signal consisting of a downmix signal (112) and side information, the side information comprising level information of the audio sig...

The invention relates to bodies coated with a hard material, comprising a multi-layer coating system containing at least one Ti1-XAlXN hard material coating and to a multi-stage CVD method for producing said bodies. The aim of the invention is to achieve excellent adhesion of the Ti1-xAlxN hard material coating in ...

The invention relates to a method for testing a rotor blade (13.1) of a wind power plant (1), which sweeps across a rotor blade surface to be covered during operation of the wind power plant, comprising the following steps: emitting a target light beam (20), in particular a target light beam having a power densi...

The present invention relates to a reflective and/or refractive secondary lens system for focusing sunlight onto semiconductor elements, the secondary lens system being characterised according to the invention by a projection which is disposed around the basic body forming the secondary lens system. Furthermore, the...

An embodiment of an apparatus (200) for computing control information for a suppression filter (210) for filtering a second audio signal to suppress an echo based on a first audio signal includes a computation means (220) having a value determination means (230) for determining at least one energy-related value...

A compact encoded representation of information values not exceeding a predefined size can be derived when a first encoding rule generating an encoded representation of the information values of variable length is compared to a second encoding rule generating an encoded representation of the information values ...

Abstract A cryopreservation storage device {100}, in particular for cryopreservation of biological samples, comprises a plurality of multi sample modules (20) being adapted for accommodating the biological samples and sample memories, a module control device (30) controlling an access to sample memories accommo¬dat...

An embodiment of an apparatus (100) for generating audio subband values in audio subband channels comprises an analysis windower (110) for windowing a frame (120) of time-domain audio input samples being in a time sequence extending from an early sample to a later sample using an analysis window function (190) comp...

A reconstructed output channel, reconstructed with a multi-channel reconstructor using at least one downmix channel derived by downmixing a plurality of original channels and using a parameter representation including additional information on a temporal fine structure of an original channel can be generated using ...