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Switched adaptive predictive coding with noise shaping

EP 0481707 B1 · Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

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  • Filed October 15, 1991 and granted July 24, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 15, 2011.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by April 15, 2017.
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FiledOctober 15, 1991
PublishedApril 22, 1992
GrantedJuly 24, 1996
Term endedOctober 15, 2011
Application numberEP 91309444
Classification (CPC)H03M7/3046

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