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Michael A. Ramalho, Sarasota US

Michael A. Ramalho, Sarasota, FL US

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20080205400LOW DEVIATION FIELD MODULATION FOR TRANSFER OF INFORMATION - An interface receives a packet stream associated with a source and a destination. The packet stream includes multiple packets, each packet including a header and a payload. A system generates a modulated stream for inclusion in the packet stream and performs a low deviation modification to a header field in each of the multiple packets to include the modulated stream in the packet stream. The system then transmits the packet stream including the modulated stream.08-28-2008
20090103712CONTROLLING ECHO IN A WIDEBAND VOICE CONFERENCE - In one embodiment, an echo canceller configured to cancel echo in a wideband voice conference is provided. A double-talk condition may be when a plurality of users are speaking substantially simultaneously. When a double-talk condition is detected in the wideband conference, a high-frequency process is enabled and used to process signals in the high band to reduce echo. Accordingly, echo in the high band may not be produced by end devices being used by the users' speaking. Also, the users speaking have the echo cancelled in the low band and substantial echo does not result. This results in the users speaking experiencing the conference in the narrowband. The other users that are not speaking, however, continue to receive wideband signals. The users not speaking also continue to have echo cancellation performed for the high band and low band because these users are not speaking and thus attenuation of their voices is not a consideration.04-23-2009
20090106362Wirelessly-enabled identification of digital media generated at an event - A method in one embodiment includes embedding a unique event tag into media files recorded at an event by a first media recording device, which is operable to wirelessly discover a second media recording device at the event. The first media recording device wirelessly communicates the unique event tag to the second media recording device for embedding into media files recorded at the event by the second media recording device. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure.04-23-2009
20090202063Controlling Echo During Double-Talk in a Voice Conference - An echo canceller apparatus comprises a receive side attenuator coupled in a receive side signal path that is configured to couple from a conference call bridge to a caller; a convolution processor coupled to the receive side signal path at a convolution processor pick-off point; a double-talk detector coupled to the receive side signal path and to a sending side signal path that is configured to couple from the caller to the conference call bridge; and logic coupled to the receive side attenuator which when executed is responsive to a double-talk condition detected by the double-talk detector and operable to determine a level of echo canceled by the convolution processor, to determine an additional amount of attenuation to introduce, and to activate the receive side attenuator to introduce the additional attenuation.08-13-2009
20100074455USE OF NON-AUDIBLE BAND TO RELAY INFORMATION FOR ECHO CANCELLATION IN A DISTRIBUTED MEDIA SYSTEM - Particular embodiments provide for attenuating one or more microphone signals in a teleconferencing system upon detecting a non-audible signal. A far end voice signal is received from a sound source. A non-audible signal is added to the far end voice signal to create a composite signal, which is provided to one or more speakers. The speakers output the composite signal and the non-audible signal are detected in the composite signal after the composite signal is received at one or more microphones. The non-audible signal allows an attenuator to attenuate a microphone signal including the composite signal from a particular microphone in response to the detected non-audible signal to reduce far end echo.03-25-2010
20100180174DIGITAL SIGNATURE OF CHANGING SIGNALS USING FEATURE EXTRACTION - In one embodiment, a signal transmission authentication apparatus includes an input operable to receive a changing signal, a first extractor operable to extract first phoneme data from the received changing signal, a first generator including logic operable to generate first data representative of the extracted first phoneme data, a first output operable to communicate output data corresponding to the received changing signal and the first data from an associated transmitter to an associated receiver, a second extractor associated with the receiver including logic operable to extract second phoneme data from the received output data via the receiver and regenerate the first phoneme data from the received first data, a comparator including logic operable to generate a comparison signal in accordance with a comparison of the first and second phoneme data, and a second output operable to generate a signal corresponding to authenticity of the received changing signal in accordance with an output of the comparator.07-15-2010
20110205915ECHO MITIGATION IN THE PRESENCE OF VARIABLE DELAYS DUE TO ADAPTIVE JITTER BUFFERS - In an example embodiment, a control connection is introduced between an adaptive jitter buffer (AJB) and an adaptive bulk delay (ABD) buffer of an echo canceller (ECAN) in an Internet Protocol (IP) conference bridge. The control connection allows the AJB to control the amount of delay inserted by the ABD in the ECAN convolution processor (CP) signal path. The adjustment in ABD delay restores the time alignment of the ECAN internal echo estimate and offsets variations in echo tail delay introduced by network induced AJB delay changes. Time-invariance is preserved in the echo tail path.08-25-2011
20110216785BUFFER EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION OVER SUCCESSIVE INTERVALS FOR NETWORK DEVICES - In one method embodiment, receiving from the network device a multiplex of a compressed video stream and a compressed audio stream, the multiplex comprising a succession of intervals corresponding to a video program corresponding to a first playout rate; and at the start of each interval, replacing the compressed audio stream with a compressed, pitch-preserving audio stream corresponding to a second playout rate different than the first.09-08-2011
20110217025AUXILIARY AUDIO TRANSMISSION FOR PRESERVING SYNCHRONIZED PLAYOUT WITH PACED-DOWN VIDEO - In one method embodiment, providing a multiplex of compressed versions of a first video stream and a first audio stream, each corresponding to an audiovisual (A/V) program, the first video stream and the first audio stream each corresponding to a first playout rate and un-synchronized with each other for an initial playout portion; and providing a compressed version of a second audio stream, the second audio stream corresponding to a pitch-preserving, second playout rate different than the first playout rate, the second audio stream synchronized to the initial playout portion of the first video stream when the first video stream is played out at the second playout rate, the first audio stream replaceable by the second audio stream for the initial playout portion.09-08-2011

Patent applications by Michael A. Ramalho, Sarasota, FL US