US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on Jan. 28 for "Integration of high frequency audio reconstruction techniques" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,513, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Integration of high frequency audio reconstruction techniques" was invented by Kristofer Kjoerling (Solna, Sweden), Lars Villemoes (Jarfalla, Sweden), Heiko Purnhagen (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Per Ekstrand (Saltsjobaden, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream is disclosed. The method includes receiving the encoded audio bitstream and decoding the audio data to generate a decoded lowband audio signal. The method further includes extracting high frequency reconstruction metadata and filtering the decoded lowband audi...