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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120046943 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING COMMUNICATION QUALITY IN MOBILE TERMINAL An apparatus and a method for voice communication of a mobile terminal are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and a method for clearly receiving a counterpart user's voice signal in a mobile terminal positioned at a place where a noise occurs are provided. The ap... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20110301948 | ECHO-RELATED DECISIONS ON AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL OF UPLINK SPEECH SIGNAL IN A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE A method for performing a call between a near-end user and a far-end user, which includes the following operations performed during the call by the near-end user's communications device. Automatic gain control (AGC) is performed to update a gain applied to an uplink spe... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110191103 | PORTABLE TERMINAL TO ADJUST SOUND OUTPUT OF WIRELESS HEADSET A portable terminal and method for adjusting transmitted sound output to a wireless headset. A portable terminal includes a wireless connection setting unit to establish a connection with a wireless headset and a loopback control unit. The loopback control unit may tran... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110184731 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AMPLIFYING SPEECH SIGNALS A signal processing method is provided. The signal processing method includes extracting a first signal having a first frequency band from a sum signal of a left signal and a right signal, generating a second signal having a second frequency band by using the first sign... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110172996 | VOICE INPUT DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM A voice input device, a method for manufacturing the same, and an information processing system are provided. The voice input device has a function of removing a noise component and includes a first microphone 710-1 that includes a first vibrating membrane... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110125492 | Speech Intelligibility The perceived quality of a narrowband speech signal truncated from a wideband speech signal is improved by generating in a third frequency band third speech components matching first speech components in a first frequency band of the narrowband signal, and generating in... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110125491 | Speech Intelligibility The perceived quality of a speech signal is improved by estimating the average power of first and second signal components and applying a first gain factor to the second signal components to generate adjusted second signal components. The first gain factor is selected s... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110082692 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVING SIGNAL NOISE A method and apparatus for removing signal noise using multiple bands are provided. The noise removal apparatus may divide the entire frequency band into a plurality of sub-bands using a multiband filter that has characteristics similar to an auditory system of a human ... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110082693 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR FRAME ERASURE RECOVERY In one configuration, erasure of a significant frame of a sustained voiced segment is detected. An adaptive codebook gain value for the erased frame is calculated based on the preceding frame. If the calculated value is less than (alternatively, not greater than) a thre... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110071822 | Selective audio/sound aspects Certain aspects relate to providing an at least one audio source to at least one user. Certain aspects relate to selectively modifying an at least one first sound source to be provided to the at least one user, wherein the at least one first sound source is combined wit... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110066428 | SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE VOICE INTELLIGIBILITY PROCESSING An adaptive audio system can be implemented in a communication device. The adaptive audio system can enhance voice in an audio signal received by the communication device to increase intelligibility of the voice. The audio system can adapt the audio enhancement based at... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110054887 | Method and Apparatus for Maintaining Speech Audibility in Multi-Channel Audio with Minimal Impact on Surround Experience In one embodiment the present invention includes a method of improving audibility of speech in a multi-channel audio signal. The method includes comparing a first characteristic and a second characteristic of the multi-channel audio signal to generate an attenuation fac... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110035214 | ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD Good sound quality as perceived by the ear is obtained even with few information bits. A shape quantizer (111) is comprised of an interval search unit (121) which searches and encodes the pulses in each band of a plurality of divisions of the specified sea... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100332223 | AUDIO DECODING DEVICE AND POWER ADJUSTING METHOD Provided is an audio decoding device capable of obtaining a preferable synthesized sound with a stable sound volume. The audio decoding device includes: a post filter (210) which performs a process for improving subjective quality of audio and a process for impro... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100280825 | Voice Input Device, Method of Producing the Same, and Information Processing System A voice input device includes a first microphone (710-1) that includes a first diaphragm, a second microphone (710-2) that includes a second diaphragm, and a differential signal generation section (720) that generates a differential si... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100208918 | VOLUME CORRECTION DEVICE, VOLUME CORRECTION METHOD, VOLUME CORRECTION PROGRAM, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT A volume correction device includes: a variable gain means for controlling a gain, given to an input audio signal, according to a gain control signal; a consecutive relevant sounds interval detection means for detecting a consecutive relevant sounds interval, during whi... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100179808 | Speech Enhancement A method for enhancing speech includes extracting a center channel of an audio signal, flattening the spectrum of the center channel, and mixing the flattened speech channel with the audio signal, thereby enhancing any speech in the audio signal. Also disclosed are a me... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100169087 | SELECTIVE SCALING MASK COMPUTATION BASED ON PEAK DETECTION A set of peaks in a reconstructed audio vector Ŝ of a received audio signal is detected and a scaling mask ψ(Ŝ) based on the detected set of peaks is generated. A gain vector g* is generated based on at least the scaling mask and an index j representative of the gain... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100121635 | Enhancing the Intelligibility of Received Speech in a Noisy Environment A long term signal level of an audio signal is computed at a local device, wherein the audio signal was transmitted from a remote device and received by the local device. An automatic gain control (AGC) gain is computed at the local device based on the long term signal ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100114569 | DYNAMIC RANGE CONTROL MODULE, SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR AMPLITUDE ADJUSTMENT FOR A SPEECH SIGNAL The invention provides a dynamic range control module installed in a speech processing apparatus. In one embodiment, the dynamic range control module comprises a buffer, a voice activity detector, a peak calculation module, and an amplitude adjusting module. The buffer ... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100106495 | VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM A voice recognition system comprises: a voice input unit that receives an input signal from a voice input element and output it; a voice detection unit that detects an utterance segment in the input signal; a voice recognition unit that performs voice recognition for th... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100057449 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ENHANCING QUALITY OF SPEECH CODEC An apparatus and method of improving the quality of a speech codec are provided. In the method, a first energy of a signal decoded by a core codec is calculated, and a second energy of a signal decoded by a low-band enhancement mode is calculated. Then, when the first e... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057477 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-BAND AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION AND GAIN CONTROL IN AN AUDIO CODEC Aspects of a method and system for multi-band amplitude estimation and gain control in an audio CODEC are provided. In this regard, an audio signal may be filtered and delayed to generate one or more sub-band signals, a gain may be applied to each sub-band signal to gen... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057446 | ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD Provided is an encoding device which can obtain a sound quality preferable for auditory sense even if the number of information bits is small. The encoding device includes a shape quantization unit (111) having: a section search unit (121) which searches f... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049509 | AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE AND AUDIO DECODING DEVICE Disclosed are an audio encoding device and an audio decoding device which reduce degradation of subjective quality of a decoding signal caused by power mismatch of a decoding signal which is generated by a concealing process upon disappearance of a frame. When a frame i... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100023327 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING SPEECH SIGNAL NON-LINEAR OVERWEIGHTING GAIN IN WAVELET PACKET TRANSFORM DOMAIN The present invention relates to speech enhancement accomplished by applying an overweighting gain of a nonlinear structure in a wavelet packet transform domain or a Fourier transform domain. The present invention relates to a method for improving quality of speech sign... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100014695 | METHOD FOR BIAS COMPENSATION FOR CEPSTRO-TEMPORAL SMOOTHING OF SPECTRAL FILTER GAINS A method for modification of a cepstro-temporally smoothed gain function of a gain function resulting in a bias compensated spectral gain function is provided. The cepstro-temporal smoothing increases the quality of an enhanced output signal, as it affects only spectral... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017195 | Filter Unit and Method for Generating Subband Filter Impulse Responses A filter compressor for generating compressed subband filter impulse responses from input subband filter impulse responses corresponding to subbands, which include filter impulse response values at filter taps, includes a processor for examining the filter impulse respo... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017205 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ENHANCED INTELLIGIBILITY Techniques described herein include the use of equalization techniques to improve intelligibility of a reproduced audio signal (e.g., a far-end speech signal).... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100010808 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program for Suppressing Noise To provide a noise suppressing method and apparatus capable of achieving high-quality noise suppression using a lower amount of operations. Noise contained in an input signal is suppressed by transforming the input signal into frequency-domain signals; integrating bands... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090299739 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR MULTICHANNEL SIGNAL BALANCING A method for processing a multichannel audio signal may be configured to control the amplitude of one channel of the signal relative to another based on the levels of the two channels. One such example uses a bias factor, which is based on a standard orientation of an a... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090292535 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING MUSIC AND VOICE, AND SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF The present invention relates to a system and a method for synthesizing music and voice, and a service system and a service method using the same. The system and method according to the present invention is capable of making a listener feel maximum synthesizing effects ... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090292536 | Speech enhancement with minimum gating A speech enhancement system enhances transitions between speech and non-speech segments. The system includes a background noise estimator that approximates the magnitude of a background noise of an input signal that includes a speech and a non-speech segment. A slave pr... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090287480 | Method and apparatus for low bit rate speech coding detection To increase channel capacity, mobile phone carriers have deployed speech coders, such as Advanced MultiBand Excitation coding (AMBE), in networks to reduce the bit rate of each call. One undesired consequence of employing such speech coders is that the voice quality can... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090281801 | COMPRESSION FOR SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY ENHANCEMENT A speech intelligibility enhancement (SIE) system and method is described that improves the intelligibility of a speech signal to be played back by an audio device when the audio device is located in an environment with loud acoustic background noise. In an embodiment, ... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090281803 | DISPERSION FILTERING FOR SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY ENHANCEMENT A speech intelligibility enhancement (SIE) system and method is described that improves the intelligibility of a speech signal to be played back by an audio device when the audio device is located in an environment with loud acoustic background noise. In an embodiment, ... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090271185 | AUDIO-PEAK LIMITING IN SLOW AND FAST STAGES A method and apparatus for limiting the absolute magnitude of an audio signal. The method may include firstly variable-gain reducing the gain of an audio signal, and then secondly variable-gain reducing the gain of the audio signal faster than the first variable-gain re... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090259461 | Gain Control System, Gain Control Method, and Gain Control Program Disclosed is a gain control system in which speech model constituted from a sound pressure and a feature is stored in a speech model storage unit for each of a plurality of phonemes or for each of clusters into which a speech is divided. When an input signal is given, a... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090234646 | Method for Reduction of Aliasing Introduced by Spectral Envelope Adjustment in Real-Valued Filterbanks The present invention proposes a new method for improving the performance of a real-valued filterbank based spectral envelope adjuster. By adaptively locking the gain values for adjacent channels dependent on the sign of the channels, as defined in the application, redu... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090192793 | METHOD FOR INSTANTANEOUS PEAK LEVEL MANAGEMENT AND SPEECH CLARITY ENHANCEMENT A method for raising the soft and mid-level amplitude of sounds for greater clarity and perceptual benefit, while simultaneously removing the high level amplitude peaks without delay and providing protection for the auditory sense organ. The method does not require a fe... | 07/30/2009 |
