Patent Document ID: 8488800
Application ID: 12724969
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for dividing an at least two channel, digital audio signal into separate events, the method comprising: analyzing time concurrent samples of the audio signal across at least two channels to determine auditory event boundaries in channels of the audio signal, and identifying a continuous succession of the auditory event boundaries in said channels of the audio signal, wherein each auditory event is between adjacent auditory event boundaries in a channel, each auditory event boundary representing an end of a preceding auditory event and a beginning of a next auditory event such that a continuous succession of auditory events in said channels is obtained, identifying a combined auditory event boundary for said channels in response to the identification of an auditory event boundary in a channel, and wherein neither auditory event boundaries nor the auditory events are known in advance of identifying the continuous succession of auditory event boundaries in said channels and obtaining the continuous succession of auditory events in said channels.