# US 7,702,408, “Extending digital rights management and authentication to audio speakers”; # US 7,702,405, "System and method for transferring non-compliant packetized and streaming data into and from a multimedia device coupled to a network across which compliant data is sent”; # US 7,698,009, "Control surface with a touchscreen for editing surround sound"; # US 7,698,008, "Content-based audio comparisons"; # US 7,696,426, "Recombinant music composition algorithm and method of using the same"; # US 7,693,289, "Method and apparatus for remote control of an audio source such as a wireless microphone system"; # US 7,689,303, "Data transfer in audio codec controllers"; # US 7,684,885, "Wireless digital audio system".

The Audio and Electroacoustics (AE) Technical Committee has a new name: it is now the Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing (AASP) Technical Committee. This name change reflects the expanding interests of the committee as evidenced by the recent integration of the music signal processing community.

The Signal Processing Society (SPS) has 13 technical committees that support a broad selection of signal processing related activities defined by the scope of the Society. Recent policy revisions were made to ensure that Technical Committees remain at the forefront of innovation and interdisciplinary research and foster renewal and openness. Technical Committees now have the opportunity to expand their membership base by adding Affiliate TC Members.

# US 7,684,643 “Mutual information regularized Bayesian framework for multiple image restoration”; # US 7,672,464 “Locating and correcting undesirable effects in signals that represent time-based media”.

The Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (SPCOM TC) aims at illuminating and exploring signal processing challenges in communications and networking. The SPCOM TC is pleased to welcome several new members, and thank three retiring members for their contribution. The SPCOM TC joined forces with the SAM TC joined forces in organizing two joint sessions at ICASSP 2010. The TC's flagship event is the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC). This year's SPAWC10 will be held June 20-23, 2010, in Marrakech, Morocco.

US 7,646,328 “Versatile Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator for Radars”; US 7,645,929 “Computational Music-tempo Estimation”.