Centralized digital mute and volume control

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PATENT NO 12248728
APP PUB NO 20230418548A1
SERIAL NO

17846586

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An audio device includes a gain step selection circuit that receives a different requested gain value and an associated requested step size from each of a plurality of sources, compares each requested gain value to a same feedback gain value and generates a polarity based thereupon, performs step polarization on each requested step size as a function of the generated polarity therefor to thereby generate a plurality of step values, and outputs a least of the plurality of step values as an output step value. An accumulator circuit generates a current input gain value based upon the output step value and the feedback gain value, and then updates the feedback gain value to be equal to the current input gain value. A normalizing circuit multiplies an input data value by the current input gain value and applies a truncation function to a result thereof to produce an output data value.

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  • STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Stilgenbauer, Francesco Rho, IT 8 0

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