US Patent Issued to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING on Dec. 16 for "Low-latency, low-frequency effects codec" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,899, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Low-latency, low-frequency effects codec" was invented by Rishabh Tyagi (Sydney) and David McGrath (Rose Bay, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a method of encoding a low-frequency effect (LFE) channel comprises: receiving a time-domain LFL channel signal; filtering, using a low-pass filter, the time-domain LFE channel signal; converting the filtered time-domain LFE channel signal into a frequency-domain representation of the LFE channel signal that includes a number of coefficients representing a frequency spe...