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2016
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Dolby Laboratories Licensing
›
Johann-Markus Batke
JB
Johann-Markus Batke
— 7 Patents in 2016
DL
Dolby Laboratories Licensing
:
5
patents
#22
of
195
Top 15%
TL
Thomson Licensing
:
2
patents
#76
of
432
Top 20%
Hannover, DE
:
#3
of
171
inventors
Top 2%
Overall
(2016):
#14,238
of
481,213
Top 3%
7
Patents 2016
Issued Patents
2016
Showing
1–7
of
7
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
Approx Value ⓘ
9503818
Method and apparatus for processing signals of a spherical microphone array on a rigid sphere used for generating an ambisonics representation of the sound field
Sven Kordon
,
Alexander Krueger
2016-11-22
$1,885,000
9460726
Method and device for decoding an audio soundfield representation for audio playback
Florian Keiler
,
Johannes Boehm
2016-10-04
$2,026,000
9454971
Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing a higher order ambisonics signal representation
Alexander Krüger
,
Sven Kordon
,
Johannes Boehm
2016-09-27
$8,813,000
9420372
Method and apparatus for processing signals of a spherical microphone array on a rigid sphere used for generating an ambisonics representation of the sound field
Sven Kordon
,
Alexander Krueger
2016-08-16
$2,018,000
9397771
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding successive frames of an ambisonics representation of a 2- or 3-dimensional sound field
Peter Jax
,
Johannes Boehm
,
Sven Kordon
2016-07-19
$5,394,000
9338574
Method and apparatus for changing the relative positions of sound objects contained within a Higher-Order Ambisonics representation
Peter Jax
2016-05-10
9241216
Data structure for higher order ambisonics audio data
Florian Keiler
,
Sven Kordon
,
Johannes Boehm
,
Holger Kropp
2016-01-19
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