Patent Document ID: 20070005348
Application ID: 11172605
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A device ( 700 ) for analyzing an audio signal to obtain an analysis representation ( 760 ) of the audio signal, comprising: means ( 720 ) for calculating a neural activity pattern over time resulting at nerve fibers of an ear model based on the audio signal ( 710 ); and means ( 730 ) for processing the neural activity pattern in order to obtain a sequence of time information (t 1 , t 2 ) as an analysis representation ( 760 ) describing a temporal position of consecutive trajectories ( 740 , 750 ), wherein a trajectory ( 740 , 750 ) includes activity impulses on different nerve fibers (NF 1 , NF 2 , NF 3 , NF 4 , NF 5 ) based on the same event in the audio signal ( 710 ).