APPARATUS FOR NOISE REDUCTION IN AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING

    公开(公告)号:US20230237985A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-27

    申请号:US17583235

    申请日:2022-01-25

    CPC classification number: G10K11/17813 H03G3/001

    Abstract: An apparatus for noise reduction in audio signal processing includes a power amplifier, a zero-crossing detector, and a threshold detector. The power amplifier has an input signal terminal for receiving an audio input signal and an output signal terminal. The audio input signal is a digital-to-analog converted version according to a version of a digital audio signal. The power amplifier has an analog gain which is controllable in response to an analog gain control signal. The zero-crossing detector determines a zero-crossing detection signal according to an internal signal provided between the input signal terminal and the output signal terminal. The threshold detector determines a gain setting according to the digital audio signal and the zero-crossing detection signal to generate the analog gain control signal indicating the gain setting, wherein the threshold detector controls the analog gain of the power amplifier according to the analog gain control signal.

    LINEAR CHARGER WITH THERMAL REGULATION CIRCUIT

    公开(公告)号:US20230208180A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-29

    申请号:US17561685

    申请日:2021-12-23

    Inventor: Yao-Wei Yang

    CPC classification number: H02J7/007192 H02J7/007182 H02J7/00714

    Abstract: A linear charger includes a constant current charging circuit and a thermal regulation circuit. The constant current charging circuit is arranged to generate a charging current, and includes a first transconductance amplifier, wherein the first transconductance amplifier has a positive terminal, a negative terminal, and an output terminal. The thermal regulation circuit is coupled to the output terminal and the negative terminal of the first transconductance amplifier, and is arranged to generate and modulate a thermal regulation current and an amplifier reference voltage with temperature, and transmit the thermal regulation current and the amplifier reference voltage to the output terminal and the negative terminal of the first transconductance amplifier, respectively.

    Voltage converter and class-D amplifier

    公开(公告)号:US11632088B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-18

    申请号:US17102455

    申请日:2020-11-24

    Abstract: A voltage converter comprising: a bootstrap circuit, comprising an output capacitor, an error amplifier, a charging control circuit and a charging circuit. The charging control circuit comprises: a detection circuit, configured to detect an output voltage of the output capacitor to generate a detection signal; and a power limiting circuit, configured to clamp an output voltage of the error amplifier to a specific range based on the detection signal. The charging circuit is configured to generate a charging signal according the output voltage of the error amplifier to the bootstrap circuit, to charge the output capacitor.

    METHOD FOR EQUALIZING INPUT SIGNAL TO GENERATE EQUALIZER OUTPUT SIGNAL AND ASSOCIATED PARAMETRIC EQUALIZER

    公开(公告)号:US20220400341A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-15

    申请号:US17344907

    申请日:2021-06-10

    Abstract: A parametric equalizer includes an equalizer circuit, a first protection circuit, a second protection circuit, and a first addition circuit. The equalizer circuit is arranged to receive an input signal, and process the input signal to generate an output signal. The first protection circuit is arranged to generate a first protection signal according to the output signal, the input signal, and a first processed signal. The second protection circuit is arranged to generate a second protection signal according to the input signal and a second processed signal. The first addition circuit is coupled to the first protection circuit and the second protection circuit, and is arranged to combine the first protection signal and the second protection signal to generate an equalizer output signal.

    Direct current offset protection circuit and method

    公开(公告)号:US11368130B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-21

    申请号:US17179375

    申请日:2021-02-18

    Abstract: A direct current (DC) offset protection circuit includes: a DC offset detection circuit and a control circuit. The DC offset detection circuit is arranged to detect whether a DC component exists in pulse-width-modulation (PWM) signals and accordingly generate a DC offset detection result. The control circuit is arranged to control an audio system according to the DC offset detection result. The DC offset detection circuit comprises a PWM polarity judgment circuit, a cascaded integrator-comb (CIC) filter and a DC offset judgment circuit. The PWM polarity judgment circuit is arranged to judge a polarity of complementary PWM signals and accordingly generate a polarity indication value. The CIC filter is arranged to generate a filter output signal by averaging a plurality of polarity indication values. The DC offset judgment circuit is arranged to generate the DC offset detection result by comparing the filter output signal with a predetermined DC threshold.

    Erase voltage compensation mechanism for group erase mode with bit line leakage detection method

    公开(公告)号:US11342030B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-24

    申请号:US17145415

    申请日:2021-01-11

    Inventor: Ming-Xun Wang

    Abstract: An erase voltage compensation mechanism for group erase mode with bit line leakage detection comprises performing a block erase operation by applying an erase voltage. Continue block erasing until bit line leakage is detected upon which the erase voltage is latched and over-erase correction is performed. A compensation voltage value is calculated by finding the difference between an upper bound of a threshold voltage distribution and an erase verify point when the bit line leakage was detected. The latched erase voltage is increased by the compensation voltage to create a compensated voltage. A group erase operation is performed and the group address is incremented by 1 and the compensated voltage value is loaded. Then the group erase operation is performed on the next group. The address is incremented, the compensated voltage is loaded, and the group erase operation is performed until the group is the last group.

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