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Bernd Edler

Also filed as: EDLER BERND · EDLER BERND A · EDLER BERND ANDREAS

99 granted patents·15 pending applications·683 citations·filing 1990–2025

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Technology areasG10L H04N H04S H03M A61N

Files withFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG84 FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E V7 BAYER STEFAN6 EDLER BERND5 AGERE SYSTEMS INC4

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114 records

0198US12142284B2Audio encoder, audio decoder and related methods using two-channel processing within an intelligent gap filling frameworkFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2023·Granted Nov 12, 2024·2 cites·17 claims
0298US11922956B2Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding an audio signal with intelligent gap filling in the spectral domainFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2022·Granted Mar 5, 2024·9 cites·11 claims
0398US11735192B2Audio encoder, audio decoder and related methods using two-channel processing within an intelligent gap filling frameworkFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2022·Granted Aug 22, 2023·8 cites·17 claims
0498US11562764B2Apparatus, method or computer program for generating a bandwidth-enhanced audio signal using a neural network processorFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 24, 2023·13 cites·28 claims
0596US8655670B2Audio encoder, audio decoder and related methods for processing multi-channel audio signals using complex predictionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 18, 2014·72 cites·22 claims
0695US11289104B2Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding an audio signal with intelligent gap filling in the spectral domainFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 29, 2022·8 cites·12 claims
0795US9633663B2Apparatus, method and computer program for avoiding clipping artefactsFRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E V·Filed 2014·Granted Apr 25, 2017·54 cites·28 claims
0894US11049506B2Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding an encoded audio signal using temporal noise/patch shapingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2019·Granted Jun 29, 2021·7 cites·27 claims
0994US9398294B2Audio or video encoder, audio or video decoder and related methods for processing multi-channel audio or video signals using a variable prediction directionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 19, 2016·13 cites·19 claims
1094US9015041B2Time warp activation signal provider, audio signal encoder, method for providing a time warp activation signal, method for encoding an audio signal and computer programsBAYER STEFAN·Filed 2011·Granted Apr 21, 2015·32 cites·5 claims
1193US11935549B2Apparatus and method for encoding an audio signal using an output interface for outputting a parameter calculated from a compensation valueFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2022·Granted Mar 19, 2024·2 cites·26 claims
1293US9129597B2Audio signal decoder, audio signal encoder, methods and computer program using a sampling rate dependent time-warp contour encodingBAYER STEFAN·Filed 2012·Granted Sep 8, 2015·29 cites·17 claims
1393US8438015B2Apparatus and method for generating audio subband values and apparatus and method for generating time-domain audio samplesSCHNELL MARKUS·Filed 2007·Granted May 7, 2013·27 cites·24 claims
1489US10332539B2Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding an encoded audio signal using temporal noise/patch shapingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2015·Granted Jun 25, 2019·5 cites·14 claims
1588US9916834B2Method and apparatus for obtaining spectrum coefficients for a replacement frame of an audio signal, audio decoder, audio receiver, and system for transmitting audio signalsFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 13, 2018·8 cites·39 claims
1688US8700388B2Audio transform coding using pitch correctionEDLER BERND·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 15, 2014·23 cites·21 claims
1787US8155954B2Device and method for generating a complex spectral representation of a discrete-time signalEDLER BERND·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 10, 2012·14 cites·25 claims
1885US9734833B2Encoder, decoder and methods for backward compatible dynamic adaption of time/frequency resolution spatial-audio-object-codingFRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E V·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 15, 2017·6 cites·20 claims
1985US2025201253A1Decoder for Decoding an Encoded Audio Signal and Encoder for Encoding an Audio SignalFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
2082US9947329B2Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding an audio signal using a transient-location dependent overlapFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2015·Granted Apr 17, 2018·3 cites·41 claims
2182US9293149B2Time warp activation signal provider, audio signal encoder, method for providing a time warp activation signal, method for encoding an audio signal and computer programsFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 22, 2016·5 cites·4 claims
2281US12230286B2Decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal and encoder for encoding an audio signalFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2023·Granted Feb 18, 2025·0 cites·16 claims
2381US10832694B2Apparatus and method for generating an encoded signal or for decoding an encoded audio signal using a multi overlap portionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 10, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
2480US12272365B2Apparatus and method for decoding an encoded audio or image signal using an auxiliary window functionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2023·Granted Apr 8, 2025·0 cites·17 claims
2580US11521628B2Apparatus and method for encoding an audio signal using compensation values between three spectral bandsFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2019·Granted Dec 6, 2022·3 cites·25 claims
2680US10847167B2Audio encoder, audio decoder and related methods using two-channel processing within an intelligent gap filling frameworkFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2018·Granted Nov 24, 2020·1 cites·22 claims
2780US10600428B2Audio encoder, audio decoder, method for encoding an audio signal and method for decoding an encoded audio signalFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 24, 2020·3 cites·62 claims
2880US8321207B2Device and method for postprocessing spectral values and encoder and decoder for audio signalsEDLER BERND·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 27, 2012·12 cites·28 claims
2980US7110953B1Perceptual coding of audio signals using separated irrelevancy reduction and redundancy reductionAGERE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 19, 2006·27 cites·33 claims
3080US6678647B1Perceptual coding of audio signals using cascaded filterbanks for performing irrelevancy reduction and redundancy reduction with different spectral/temporal resolutionAGERE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 13, 2004·33 cites·23 claims
3179US12112765B2Audio encoder, audio decoder, method for encoding an audio signal and method for decoding an encoded audio signalFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 8, 2024·1 cites·49 claims
3279US11183196B2Downmixer and method for downmixing at least two channels and multichannel encoder and multichannel decoderFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 23, 2021·1 cites·20 claims
3379US10236008B2Decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal and encoder for encoding an audio signalFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 19, 2019·2 cites·28 claims
3479US7707030B2Device and method for generating a complex spectral representation of a discrete-time signalFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 27, 2010·10 cites·22 claims
3579US2023319301A1Audio or video encoder, audio or video decoder and related methods for processing multi-channel audio or video signals using a variable prediction directionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
3678US8775193B2Apparatus and method for generating audio subband values and apparatus and method for generating time-domain audio samplesFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 8, 2014·3 cites·8 claims
3777US11996106B2Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding an encoded audio signal using temporal noise/patch shapingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2021·Granted May 28, 2024·0 cites·27 claims
3877US10347274B2Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding an encoded audio signal using temporal noise/patch shapingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2017·Granted Jul 9, 2019·1 cites·8 claims
3977US2025166646A1Apparatus and method for generating an encoded signal or for decoding an encoded audio signal using a multi overlap portionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
4076US11257505B2Audio encoder, audio decoder and related methods using two-channel processing within an intelligent gap filling frameworkFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Feb 22, 2022·0 cites·22 claims
4176US9466313B2Time warp activation signal provider, audio signal encoder, method for providing a time warp activation signal, method for encoding an audio signal and computer programsFRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E V·Filed 2014·Granted Oct 11, 2016·3 cites·3 claims
4276US6778953B1Method and apparatus for representing masked thresholds in a perceptual audio coderAGERE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 17, 2004·24 cites·21 claims
4375US11854559B2Decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal and encoder for encoding an audio signalFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2022·Granted Dec 26, 2023·0 cites·31 claims
4474US8452605B2Apparatus and method for generating audio subband values and apparatus and method for generating time-domain audio samplesSCHNELL MARKUS·Filed 2007·Granted May 28, 2013·4 cites·37 claims
4573USRE49717EAudio or video encoder, audio or video decoder and related methods for processing multi-channel audio or video signals using a variable prediction directionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 24, 2023·0 cites·26 claims
4673USRE49549EAudio or video encoder, audio or video decoder and related methods for processing multi-channel audio or video signals using a variable prediction directionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 6, 2023·0 cites·24 claims
4773USRE49492EAudio or video encoder, audio or video decoder and related methods for processing multi-channel audio or video signals using a variable prediction directionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Apr 11, 2023·0 cites·19 claims
4873USRE49469EAudio or video encoder, audio or video decoder and related methods for processing multichannel audio or video signals using a variable prediction directionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 21, 2023·0 cites·24 claims
4973USRE49453EAudio or video encoder, audio or video decoder and related methods for processing multi-channel audio or video signals using a variable prediction directionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 7, 2023·0 cites·25 claims
5073US2025014586A1Audio encoder, audio decoder, method for encoding an audio signal and method for decoding an encoded audio signalFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites

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