H04S 7/40
Visual indication of stereophonic sound image
Official title: {Visual indication of stereophonic sound image}
H04S7/40 (Visual indication of stereophonic sound image) appears on 579 US grants and 649 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04S- Granted patents
- 579
- Published applications
- 649
- Assignees
- 226
- Inventors
- 1,108
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2005 | 7 | 17 |
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| 2020 | 44 | 45 |
| 2021 | 40 | 50 |
| 2022 | 31 | 45 |
| 2023 | 38 | 47 |
| 2024 | 49 | 59 |
| 2025 | 42 | 47 |
| 2026 | 36 | 38 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Visualization and customization of sound space6 Oct 2026US 12,756,984 B2Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Method and system for estimating parameters6 Oct 2026US 12,756,987 B2Apple Inc.
- Upmixing systems and methods for extending stereo signals to multi-channel formats15 Sep 2026US 12,739,583 B2Zynaptiq GmbH
- Visual platforms for configuring audio processing operations15 Sep 2026US 12,739,592 B2Cerence Operating Company
- Information processing device and method1 Sep 2026US 12,726,780 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Acoustic adjustment assistance device, acoustic adjustment device, acoustic adjustment assistance method, and non-transitory recordable medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304064 A1Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation
- Method and system for spatial audio metering using extended reality devices1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304065 A1Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
- Computer System-Implemented Audio Processing Method, Playback System, and Non-transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Storing Program24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292434 A1Yamaha Corporation
- Information processing apparatus and method, encoding apparatus, audio reproducing apparatus, and program17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281644 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Experience Localizing Binaural Sound During a Telephone Call6 Aug 2026US 2026/0230771 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Music channel graphical user interface253US 6,230,322 B1Sony Corporation · 2001
- Method and apparatus for multi-channel sound system calibration248US 6,798,889 B1Creative Technology Ltd · 2004
- Automatic adjustment system and automatic adjustment method for audio devices237US 5,581,621 AClarion Co., Ltd. · 1996
- Audio panning with multi-channel surround sound decoding234US 8,767,970 B2Apple Inc. · 2014
- Compensating filters232US 6,760,451 B12004