G10L 19/012
Comfort noise or silence coding
G10L19/012 (Comfort noise or silence coding) appears on 546 US grants and 458 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G10L- Granted patents
- 546
- Published applications
- 458
- Assignees
- 171
- Inventors
- 690
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 19 | 0 |
| 1999 | 16 | 0 |
| 2000 | 20 | 0 |
| 2001 | 17 | 5 |
| 2002 | 14 | 12 |
| 2003 | 18 | 15 |
| 2004 | 13 | 11 |
| 2005 | 6 | 15 |
| 2006 | 12 | 10 |
| 2007 | 9 | 15 |
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| 2009 | 8 | 20 |
| 2010 | 17 | 19 |
| 2011 | 11 | 15 |
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| 2013 | 24 | 26 |
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| 2015 | 19 | 27 |
| 2016 | 39 | 44 |
| 2017 | 27 | 24 |
| 2018 | 27 | 30 |
| 2019 | 35 | 19 |
| 2020 | 29 | 16 |
| 2021 | 11 | 14 |
| 2022 | 12 | 14 |
| 2023 | 14 | 10 |
| 2024 | 16 | 22 |
| 2025 | 13 | 20 |
| 2026 | 10 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Comfort noise generation11 Aug 2026US 12,706,103 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Multi-channel signal encoding method, multi-channel signal decoding method, encoding device, decoding device, and terminal device4 Aug 2026US 12,700,414 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Multi-channel signal generator, audio encoder and related methods relying on a mixing noise signal7 Apr 2026US 12,597,430 B2Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
- Comfort noise generation during handover for user equipment (UE) in wireless communication networks7 Apr 2026US 12,598,525 B2T-Mobile Innovations LLC
- Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding an audio signal or for decoding an encoded audio scene24 Mar 2026US 12,586,595 B2Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
- Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding an audio signal or for decoding an encoded audio scene24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290364 A1
- Method and apparatus for sinusoidal identification for packet loss concealment10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268916 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Low-latency, low-frequency effects codec20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245566 A1Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Multi-stage vector quantization for audio coding20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245567 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Multi-channel signal generator, audio encoder and related methods relying on a mixing noise signal16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204267 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for voice transmission over network protocols2,175US 6,621,834 B1Raindance Communications, Inc. · 2003
- Variable rate vocoder458US 5,414,796 AQUALCOMM Incorporated · 1995
- Mode-specific method and apparatus for encoding signals containing speech339US 5,596,676 AHughes Electronics Corporation · 1997
- Automatic face and facial feature location detection for low bit rate model-assisted H.261 compatible coding of video249US 5,852,669 ALucent Technologies Inc. · 1998
- Methods and apparatus for noise conditioning in digital speech compression systems using linear predictive coding230US 5,642,464 ANorthern Telecom Limited · 1997