Karlheinz Brandeburg
Timeline
- 1979 - Prof. Seitzer's team develops the first digital signal processor capable of audio compression. During subsequent development, Karlheinz Brandenburg, a student in that team, starts employing psychoacoustic principles in the audio coding schemes, feeding back important findings and corrections into the science of the hearing properties of the human ear. Guided by Prof. Seitzer, Brandenburg and the team achieve continuous improvement of their coding algorithms.
- 1987 - The Fraunhofer Institut in Germany began research code-named EUREKA project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB).
- 1989 - Fraunhofer received a German patent for MP3.
- 1990 - AES Fellowship Award for significant work in perceptual audio coders and psychoacoustics
- 1992 - Fraunhofer's and Dieter Seitzer’s audio coding algorithm was integrated into MPEG-1.
- 1996 - United States patent issued for MP3.
- 1998 - Fraunhofer started to enforce their patent rights. All developers of MP3 encoders or rippers and decoders/players now have to pay a licensing fee to Fraunhofer.
- 2000 - German Future Award 2000 (Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2000) together with his colleagues Harald Popp and Bernhard Grill for their work on the mp3 format.
- 2007 - Fraunhofer IIS celebrates 20 successful years of developing audio coding algorithms. Today, the German institute is the worldwide leading independent research lab in the field of high quality audio compression technologies for the modern media world.
"I don't like the title 'The Father of MP3.'"