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7302386 Focused search method of fixed codebook and apparatus thereof  
There are provided a search method of a fixed codebook, and more particularly, a focused search method and apparatus thereof, for being applied to a speech codec for Voice over Internet Protocol...
7302385 Speech restoration system and method for concealing packet losses  
Provided are a speech restoration system and method for concealing packet losses. The system includes a demultiplexer that demultiplexes an input bit stream and divides the input bit stream into...
7299174 Speech coding apparatus including enhancement layer performing long term prediction  
To implement scalable coding, a base layer coding section encodes an input signal to obtain base layer coded information, which is decoded by a base layer decoding section to obtain a base layer...
7295974 Encoding in speech compression  
Linear predictive system with classification of LP residual Fourier coefficients into two or more overlapping classes, and each class has its own vector quantization codebook(s). The use of strong...
7289953 Apparatus and method for speech coding  
A speech encoder includes an LPC synthesizer that obtains synthesized speech by filtering an adaptive excitation vector and a stochastic excitation vector stored in an adaptive codebook and in a...
7283955 Source coding enhancement using spectral-band replication  
The present invention proposes a new method and apparatus for the enhancement of source coding systems. The invention employs bandwidth reduction ( 101 ) prior to or in the encoder ( 103 ),...
7283068 Binary decoders in electronic integrated circuits  
An improved binary decoder incorporating a selection circuit that activates a selected output corresponding to a input binary value, and a deselecting circuit coupled to each output that...
7280960 Sub-band voice codec with multi-stage codebooks and redundant coding  
Techniques and tools related to coding and decoding of audio information are described. For example, redundant coded information for decoding a current frame includes signal history information...
7280959 Indexing pulse positions and signs in algebraic codebooks for coding of wideband signals  
The indexing method comprises forming a set of tracks of pulse positions, restraining the positions of the non-zero-amplitude pulses of the combinations of the codebook in accordance with the set...
7277916 Dynamic translation between data network-based protocol in a data-packet-network and interactive voice response functions of a telephony network  
A system for emulating interaction with an interactive voice response unit is provided. The system comprises, a client node connected to the network, the client node soliciting interaction with the...
7272555 Fine granularity scalability speech coding for multi-pulses CELP-based algorithm  
A method for speech processing in a code excitation linear prediction (CELP) based speech system having a plurality of modes including at least a first mode and a consecutive second mode. The...
7272557 Method and apparatus for quantizing model parameters  
A method of quantizing a model parameter includes applying the model parameter to a non-linear scaling function to produce a scaled model parameter and quantizing the scaled model parameter to form...
7272553 Varying pulse amplitude multi-pulse analysis speech processor and method  
A speech signal processing approach modifies the amplitudes of pulses within a multi-pulse sequence to improve and/or modify the perceived quality of reconstructed speech. According to one...
7272554 Reduction of speech quality degradation caused by packet loss  
A speech decoding device is provided is capable of reducing degradation of speech quality caused by concealment processing performed when a loss of a packet has occurred, e.g., in speech packet...
7269554 Method, apparatus, and system for efficient rate control in audio encoding  
According to one aspect of the invention, a method is provided in which audio samples representing an input audio signal are received. The input audio samples are transformed into a vector of...
7269553 Pseudo-cepstral adaptive short-term post-filters for speech coders  
Methods and systems for filtering synthesized or reconstructed speech are implemented. A filter based on a set of linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficients is constructed by transforming the LPC...
7269552 Quantizing speech signal codewords to reduce memory requirements  
For the coding or decoding of speech signal sampled values, the values contained in the code books/code tables for the generation of the speech signal parameters are stored in quantized form. The...
7266496 Speech recognition system  
The present invention discloses a complete speech recognition system having a training button and a recognition button, and the whole system uses the application specific integrated circuit (ASIC)...
7263481 Method and apparatus for improved quality voice transcoding  
A method and apparatus for a voice transcoder that converts a bitstream representing frames of data encoded according to a first voice compression standard to a bitstream representing frames of...
7263480 Multi-channel signal encoding and decoding  
A multi-channel linear predictive analysis-by-synthesis signal encoding method determines (S 1 ) a leading channel and encodes the leading channel as an embedded bitstream. Thereafter trailing...
7260522 Gain quantization for a CELP speech coder  
There is provided a speech encoding system that receives a speech signal. The speech encoding system comprises a frame processor for processing a frame of the speech signal, where the frame...
7260521 Method and device for adaptive bandwidth pitch search in coding wideband signals  
An improved pitch search method and device for digitally encoding a wideband signal, in particular but not exclusively a speech signal, in view of transmitting, or storing, and synthesizing this...
7254533 Method and apparatus for a thin CELP voice codec  
An apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a voice signal. The apparatus includes an encoder configured to generate an output bitstream signal from an input voice signal. The output...
7251598 Speech coder/decoder  
A coding parameter control circuit 31 computes a frame length from a bit rate and coding delay, and provides the computed frame length data to a CELP coding circuit 32. Based on the computed...
7249014 Apparatus, methods and articles incorporating a fast algebraic codebook search technique  
An efficient method for codebook search, employed in speech coding, uses an optimal pulse-position grouping and a split track arrangement, based on a likelihood estimator. Also disclosed are...
7246057 System for handling variations in the reception of a speech signal consisting of packets  
The present invention relates to a receiver system in a communication system supporting packet-based communication (e.g., an IP-network), including a receiver, speech decoder and a jitter buffer...
7243064 Signal processing of multi-channel data  
An approach for providing non-commutative approaches to signal processing. Quaternions are used to represent multi-dimensional data (e.g., three- and four-dimensional data). Additionally, a linear...
7240014 Audio signal processing apparatus  
In an audio signal encoding apparatus, a first audio signal and a second audio signal are added into an addition-result signal. The first audio signal is subtracted from the second audio signal to...
7231344 Method and apparatus for gradient-descent based window optimization for linear prediction analysis  
The shape of windows used during linear predictive analysis can be optimized through the use of gradient-descent based window optimization procedures. Window optimization may be achieved fairly...
7228274 Recognition of identification patterns  
The invention relates to a method and to a device for identifying markers in data blocks. The method is characterized in that a number of data blocks ( 201 a 201 n ) are received by a receiver (...
7228272 Continuous time warping for low bit-rate CELP coding  
A signal modification technique facilitates compact voice coding by employing a continuous, rather than piece-wise continuous, time warp contour to modify an original residual signal to match an...
7209878 Noise feedback coding method and system for efficiently searching vector quantization codevectors used for coding a speech signal  
A system for performing a computationally efficient method of searching through N Vector Quantization (VQ) codevectors for a preferred one of the N VQ codevectors predicts a speech signal to derive...
7206740 Efficient excitation quantization in noise feedback coding with general noise shaping  
In a Noise Feedback Coding (NFC) system operable in a ZERO-STATE condition and a ZERO-INPUT condition, the NFC system including at least one filter having a filter memory, a method of updating the...
7200552 Gradient descent optimization of linear prediction coefficients for speech coders  
An optimization algorithm is provided for linear prediction based speech coding systems. The optimization algorithm minimizes the error between original speech samples and synthesized speech...
7200557 Method of reducing index sizes used to represent spectral content vectors  
A method identifies a codeword to represent a vector derived from an audio signal by applying the vector to first and second decision trees. The first decision tree is associated with a first type...
7197454 Audio coding  
Coding of an audio signal is provided where the coded bitstream semantics and syntax are not related to a specific sampling frequency. Thus, all bitstream parameters required to regenerate the...
7194408 CELP encoding/decoding method and apparatus  
A multi-codebook fixed bitrate CELP signal block encoder/decoder includes a codebook selector ( 22 ) for selecting, for each signal block, a corresponding codebook identification in accordance with...
7194407 Audio coding method and apparatus  
A method of coding an audio signal comprises receiving an audio signal x to be coded and transforming the received signal from the time to the frequency domain. A quantised audio signal {tilde over...
7191121 Efficient spectral envelope coding using variable time/frequency resolution and time/frequency switching  
The present invention provides a new method and an apparatus for spectral envelope encoding. The invention teaches how to perform and signal compactly a time/frequency mapping of the envelope...
7191120 Speech encoding method, apparatus and program  
A speech encoding method, apparatus and program wherein an input speech signal is divided into a plurality of frames each having a predetermined length, each of the frames is subdivided into a...
7184953 Transcoding method and system between CELP-based speech codes with externally provided status  
An apparatus for processing CELP-based frames includes a first module for extracting a CELP parameter from a source codec, a second module coupled to the first module adapted to interpolate between...
7184937 Signal repetition-rate and frequency-drift estimator using proportional-delayed zero-crossing techniques  
Proportional-delayed zero-crossing frequency-drift estimator devices are provided. Given N-number of time samples, the current zero-crossing time estimation technique uses only two zero-crossing...
7181402 Method and apparatus for synthetic widening of the bandwidth of voice signals  
The invention provides a method and an apparatus for synthetic widening of the bandwidth of voice signals. This is done by providing a narrowband voice signal at a predetermined sampling rate;...
7171354 Audio decoder and coding error compensating method  
When an error is detected in coded data in the current frame, data separation section 201 separates the data into coding parameters first. Then, mode information decoding section 202 outputs...
7162419 Method in the decompression of an audio signal  
The invention relates to a method in the decompression of a compressed audio signal. In the decompression, a predicting coding has been used, wherein samples taken of the audio signal have been...
7155387 Noise spectrum subtraction method and system  
A method for reducing noise in a voice signal, and a voice operated system utilizing the same are presented. A noise component in a compressed digital signal representative of the voice signal is...
7152032 Voice enhancement device by separate vocal tract emphasis and source emphasis  
A voice intensifier capable of reducing abrupt changes in the amplification factor between frames and realizing excellent sound quality with less noise feeling by dividing input voices into the...
7149683 Method and device for robust predictive vector quantization of linear prediction parameters in variable bit rate speech coding  
The present invention relates to a method and device for quantizing linear prediction parameters in variable bit-rate sound signal coding, in which an input linear prediction parameter vector is...
7146311 CELP encoding/decoding method and apparatus  
A multi-codebook fixed bitrate CELP signal block encoder/decoder includes a codebook selector ( 22 ) for selecting, for each signal block, a corresponding codebook identification in accordance with...
7143030 Parametric compression/decompression modes for quantization matrices for digital audio  
Quantization matrices facilitate digital audio encoding and decoding. An audio encoder generates and compresses quantization matrices; an audio decoder decompresses and applies the quantization...