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Oliver Thiergart
Also filed as: THIERGART OLIVER
41 granted patents·7 pending applications·203 citations·filing 2011–2025
97Inventor score
Files withFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG41FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E V3DEL GALDO GIOVANNI2SCHULTZ-AMLING RICHARD1THIERGART OLIVER1
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48 records- 0196US11272305B2Apparatus, method or computer program for generating a sound field descriptionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 8, 2022·11 cites·18 claims
- 0295US9462378B2Apparatus and method for deriving a directional information and computer program productFRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E V·Filed 2013·Granted Oct 4, 2016·41 cites·15 claims
- 0392US9396731B2Sound acquisition via the extraction of geometrical information from direction of arrival estimatesFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 19, 2016·19 cites·18 claims
- 0492US9196257B2Apparatus and a method for converting a first parametric spatial audio signal into a second parametric spatial audio signalSCHULTZ-AMLING RICHARD·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 24, 2015·34 cites·6 claims
- 0591US11937075B2Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding using low-order, mid-order and high-order components generatorsFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2021·Granted Mar 19, 2024·2 cites·18 claims
- 0691US9215542B2Apparatus and method for measuring a plurality of loudspeakers and microphone arrayFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2012·Granted Dec 15, 2015·17 cites·14 claims
- 0789US11783843B2Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding directional audio coding parameters using different time/frequency resolutionsFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 10, 2023·2 cites·33 claims
- 0889US9626974B2Spatial audio processor and a method for providing spatial parameters based on an acoustic input signalFRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E V·Filed 2012·Granted Apr 18, 2017·12 cites·28 claims
- 0988US11367454B2Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding directional audio coding parameters using quantization and entropy codingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 21, 2022·2 cites·37 claims
- 1088US8891797B2Audio format transcoderTHIERGART OLIVER·Filed 2011·Granted Nov 18, 2014·28 cites·12 claims
- 1187US11361778B2Audio scene encoder, audio scene decoder and related methods using hybrid encoder-decoder spatial analysisFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 14, 2022·2 cites·35 claims
- 1287US9661432B2Apparatus and method for measuring a plurality of loudspeakers and microphone arrayFRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E V·Filed 2015·Granted May 23, 2017·6 cites·4 claims
- 1386US11368790B2Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio codingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 21, 2022·2 cites·18 claims
- 1482US10109282B2Apparatus and method for geometry-based spatial audio codingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2013·Granted Oct 23, 2018·9 cites·17 claims
- 1582US2024428806A1Apparatus and Method for encoding or Decoding Directional Audio Coding Parameters Using Different Time/Frequency ResolutionsFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 1681US12112762B2Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding directional audio coding parameters using different time/frequency resolutionsFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2023·Granted Oct 8, 2024·0 cites·33 claims
- 1780US2024274139A1Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding directional audio coding parameters using quantization and entropy codingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 1879US10331396B2Filter and method for informed spatial filtering using multiple instantaneous direction-of-arrival estimatesFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2015·Granted Jun 25, 2019·4 cites·15 claims
- 1978US12418768B2Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding using diffuse compensationFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2023·Granted Sep 16, 2025·0 cites·19 claims
- 2078US12369008B2Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding using low-order, mid-order and high-order components generatorsFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2023·Granted Jul 22, 2025·0 cites·14 claims
- 2176US2023396949A1Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to dirac based spatial audio coding using direct component compensationFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 2274US9484038B2Apparatus and method for merging geometry-based spatial audio coding streamsDEL GALDO GIOVANNI·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 1, 2016·4 cites·17 claims
- 2372US12106763B2Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding directional audio coding parameters using quantization and entropy codingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2022·Granted Oct 1, 2024·0 cites·23 claims
- 2472US10284947B2Apparatus and method for microphone positioning based on a spatial power densityDEL GALDO GIOVANNI·Filed 2012·Granted May 7, 2019·3 cites·11 claims
- 2569US11856389B2Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding using direct component compensationFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2021·Granted Dec 26, 2023·0 cites·19 claims
- 2669US11838743B2Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding using diffuse compensationFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2021·Granted Dec 5, 2023·0 cites·19 claims
- 2767US12266372B2Parameter encoding and decodingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2021·Granted Apr 1, 2025·0 cites·13 claims
- 2867US11990142B2Parameter encoding and decodingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2021·Granted May 21, 2024·0 cites·37 claims
- 2967US11729554B2Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio codingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2022·Granted Aug 15, 2023·0 cites·10 claims
- 3067US8705319B2Apparatus and method for resolving an ambiguity from a direction of arrival estimateFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 22, 2014·3 cites·15 claims
- 3166US12277941B2Parameter encoding and decodingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2021·Granted Apr 15, 2025·0 cites·34 claims
- 3266US12058501B2Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio codingFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2022·Granted Aug 6, 2024·0 cites·17 claims
- 3366US11854560B2Audio scene encoder, audio scene decoder and related methods using hybrid encoder-decoder spatial analysisFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2021·Granted Dec 26, 2023·0 cites·16 claims
- 3465US10327088B2Spatial audio processor and a method for providing spatial parameters based on an acoustic input signalFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2017·Granted Jun 18, 2019·1 cites·25 claims
- 3563US2024163628A1Apparatus, method or computer program for processing a sound field representation in a spatial transform domainFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 3662US2025372105A1Audio signal representation decoding unit and audio signal representation encoding unitFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 3758US10694306B2Apparatus, method or computer program for generating a sound field descriptionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2019·Granted Jun 23, 2020·0 cites·24 claims
- 3857US2025349306A1Apparatus and method for interference cancellation and for sample rate offset compensation for a multi-device scenarioFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 3956US11176952B2Direction of arrival estimation using watermarked audio signals and microphone arraysFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2014·Granted Nov 16, 2021·1 cites·16 claims
- 4055US12022276B2Apparatus, method or computer program for processing a sound field representation in a spatial transform domainFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2022·Granted Jun 25, 2024·0 cites·29 claims
- 4150US2024214729A1Apparatus and method for narrowband direction-of-arrival estimationFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 4248US12494213B2Apparatus and method for encoding a plurality of audio objects using direction information during a downmixing or apparatus and method for decoding using an optimized covariance synthesisFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2023·Granted Dec 9, 2025·0 cites·26 claims
- 4348US10524072B2Apparatus, method or computer program for generating a sound field descriptionFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2018·Granted Dec 31, 2019·0 cites·22 claims
- 4446US11477594B2Concept for generating an enhanced sound-field description or a modified sound field description using a depth-extended DirAC technique or other techniquesFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 18, 2022·0 cites·34 claims
- 4545US12198709B2Apparatus and method for encoding a spatial audio representation or apparatus and method for decoding an encoded audio signal using transport metadata and related computer programsFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2021·Granted Jan 14, 2025·0 cites·34 claims
- 4640US10015613B2System, apparatus and method for consistent acoustic scene reproduction based on adaptive functionsFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 3, 2018·0 cites·17 claims
- 4740US9936323B2System, apparatus and method for consistent acoustic scene reproduction based on informed spatial filteringFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 3, 2018·0 cites·16 claims
- 4839US9984702B2Extraction of reverberant sound using microphone arraysFRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG·Filed 2016·Granted May 29, 2018·0 cites·16 claims
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