US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Dec. 23 for "Determining the inter-channel time difference of a multi-channel audio signal" (Swedish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,846, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Determining the inter-channel time difference of a multi-channel audio signal" was invented by Manuel Briand (Nice, France) and Tomas Jansson Toftgard (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device are disclosed for determining an inter-channel time difference of a multi-channel audio signal having at least two channels. A determination is made at a number of consecutive time instances, inter-channel correlation based on a cross-correlation function involving at least two different channels of the multi-channel audio sign...