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Patent: 7231060

Systems and Methods of Generating Control Signals

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Patent Number: 7231060 
Title: Systems and Methods of Generating Control Signals 
Abstract: Separating a source in a stereo signal having a left channel and a right channel includes transforming the signal into a short-time transform domain; computing a short-time similarity measure between the left channel and the right channel; classifying portions of the signals having similar panning coefficients according to the short-time similarity measure; segregating a selected one of the classified portions of the signals corresponding to the source; and reconstructing the source from the selected portions of the signals.  
Country of Issue: US 
First Named Inventor: Dowling, Morgan, Lys, Chemel, Blackwell, Warwick 
Assignee: Color Kinetics 
Continuation or Divisional of: 6788011 
International Classification: G06K 9/00 
US Classification: 382/100 
Issue Date: 06-12-2007 
Filing Date: 06-05-2002 
Application : 10/163164 
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Link to Patent at freepatentsonline.com: 7231060 at Freepatentsonline 
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