ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,493, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Audio D/A converter, and DSD signal D/A conversion method" was invented by Shinji Yamagami (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio D/A converter for converting direct stream digital (DSD) data having a modulation rate m into an analog signal includes: an N-bit (Nless than=2) segment type D/A converter, a shift register configured to store M-bits (Nless than equal toMSN/m) of the DSD data; and a controller configured to supply an N-bit output code containing p 1s to the segment type D/A converter when the number of 1s stored in the shift register is p...