ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,901, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Quantisation of audio parameters" was invented by Anssi Ramo (Tampere, Finland), Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland) and Lasse Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is inter alia disclosed an apparatus for audio encoding configured to compare an audio parameter against a threshold value and against a value dependent on a previous quantized audio parameter; calculate a quantized audio parameter as the previous quantized audio parameter increased by a predetermined value; and calculate the quantized audio parameter as the previ...