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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175868 | Voice judging system, voice judging method and program for voice judgment A voice judging system including feature value extraction means that analyzes a sound signal input from a sound signal input device, and extracts a time series of the feature values, sub-word boundary score calculating means that calculates a time series of sub-word... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7987089 | Systems and methods for modifying a zero pad region of a windowed frame of an audio signal A method for modifying a window with a frame associated with an audio signal is described. A signal is received. The signal is partitioned into a plurality of frames. A determination is made if a frame within the plurality of frames is associated with a non-speech s... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7917356 | Operating method for voice activity detection/silence suppression system A VAD/SS system is connected to a channel of a transmission pipe. The channel provides a pathway for the transmission of energy. A method for operating a VAD/SS system includes detecting the energy on the channel, and activating or suppressing activation of the VAD/... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7805295 | Method of synthesizing of an unvoiced speech signal The present invention relates to a method of synthesizing a signal comprising the steps of: a) determining of a required pitch bell location on the signal to be synthesized. b) mapping of the required pitch bell location onto an original signal to provide a first pi... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7653536 | Voice and data exchange over a packet based network with voice detection A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voic... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7555430 | Selective multi-pass speech recognition system and method Method and apparatus for multi-pass speech recognition. An input device receives spoken input. A processor performs a first pass speech recognition technique on the spoken input and forms first pass results. The first pass results include a number of alternative spe... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7546238 | Digital circuit transmission device A digital line transmission unit can carry out switching between speech codecs during the same call to achieve balance between making effective use of a line and a high sound quality without bringing about a feeling of discomfort in a user by the switching. It inclu... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7542897 | Condensed voice buffering, transmission and playback This disclosure is directed to techniques for condensed voice buffering, transmission and playback. The techniques may involve identification of encoded voice frames as either speech or a pause, and selective exclusion of a portion of the frames for storage, transmi... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7502734 | Method and device for robust predictive vector quantization of linear prediction parameters in sound signal coding The exemplary embodiments of this invention relate 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 received, a sound signal frame corresponding to th... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7487083 | Method and apparatus for discriminating speech from voice-band data in a communication network A method and an apparatus accurately discriminates between speech and voice-band data (VBD) in a communication network by calculating self similarity ratio (SSR) values, which indicate periodicity characteristics of an input signal segment, and/or autocorrelation co... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7433358 | Characterization of impaired intervals in a voice over packet session using audio frame loss concealment An embodiment may include an apparatus comprising a dejitter buffer to receive packets containing audio data, a codec coupled with the dejitter buffer, the codec to receive coded audio frames from the dejitter buffer and decode them, and a concealed seconds meter co... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7415416 | Voice activated device A voice activated camera is described which allows users to take remote photographs by speaking one or more keywords. In a preferred embodiment, a speech processing unit is provided which is arranged to detect extended periodic signals from a microphone of the camer... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411985 | Low-complexity packet loss concealment method for voice-over-IP speech transmission A low complexity packet loss concealment method for use in voice-over-IP speech transmission calculates a cross-correlation of previous speech data to estimate the pitch period of the previous speech when speech frames have been lost. A tap interval used to calculat... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412379 | Time-scale modification of signals Techniques utilising Time Scale Modification (TSM) of signals are described. The signal is analysed and divided into frames of similar signal types. Techniques specific to the signal type are then applied to the frames thereby optimising the modification process. Th... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406096 | Tandem-free intersystem voice communication Techniques are presented herein to provide tandem-free operation between two wireless terminals through two otherwise incompatible wireless networks. Specifically, embodiments provide tandem-free operation between a wireless terminal communicating through a continuo... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7373209 | Sound features extracting apparatus, sound data registering apparatus, sound data retrieving apparatus, and methods and programs for implementing the same The present invention implements a method and an apparatus for retrieving a sound data desired by the user on the basis of its subjective impression over the sound data. The subjective impression on the desired sound data is entered by the user and converted to a nu... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366244 | Method and system for antenna interference cancellation A wireless communication system can comprise two or more antennas that interfere with one another via free space coupling, surface wave crosstalk, dielectric leakage, or other interference effect. The interference effect can produce an interference signal on one of ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363232 | Method and system for enabling audio speed conversion The present invention provides a method and system for processing an audio signal. According to an exemplary method, an audio signal such as a digital voice signal is received and divided into one or more individual unit cycles. An audio speed conversion operation i... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359979 | Packet prioritization and associated bandwidth and buffer management techniques for audio over IP The present invention is directed to voice communication devices in which an audio stream is divided into a sequence of individual packets, each of which is routed via pathways that can vary depending on the availability of network resources. All embodiments of the ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359856 | Speech detection system in an audio signal in noisy surrounding A method of detecting speech in an audio signal comprises a step of obtaining information on the energy of the audio signal, the energy information then being used to detect speech in the audio signal. The method further comprises a step of obtaining information on ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356464 | Method and device for estimating signal power in compressed audio using scale factors Estimating a signal power in a compressed audio signal [A] is provided, the audio signal comprising blocks of quantized samples, a given block being provided with a set of scale factors. The estimating is performed by extracting the set of scale factors from the com... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346502 | Adaptive noise state update for a voice activity detector There is provided a method of updating a noise state of a voice activity detector (VAD) for indicating an active voice mode and an inactive voice mode. The method comprises receiving an input signal having a plurality of frames, determining an elapsed time since the... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340398 | Selective sampling for sound signal classification A system and method of selective sampling for sound signal classification is disclosed. The method of the present invention discloses the elements of: receiving a sound signal; specifying meta-data to be extracted from the sound signal; dividing the sound signal int... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337108 | System and method for providing high-quality stretching and compression of a digital audio signal An adaptive “temporal audio scaler” is provided for automatically stretching and compressing frames of audio signals received across a packet-based network. Prior to stretching or compressing segments of a current frame, the temporal audio scaler first computes ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333930 | Tonal analysis for perceptual audio coding using a compressed spectral representation The present invention provides an apparatus, method and tangible medium storing instructions for determining tonality of an input audio signal, for selection of corresponding masked thresholds for use in perceptual audio coding. In the various embodiments, the input... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330814 | Wideband speech coding with modulated noise highband excitation system and method A speech encoder/decoder for wideband speech with a partitioning of wideband into lowband and highband, convenient coding of the lowband, and LP excited by noise plus some periodicity for the highband. The embedded lowband may be extracted for a lower bit rate decod... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7317945 | Method and system to convey the within-channel fine structure with a cochlear implant The present invention provides a cochlear stimulation system and method for capturing and translating fine time structure (“FTS”) in incoming sounds and delivering this information spatially to the cochlea. The system comprises a FTS estimator/analyzer and a cur... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7304231 | Apparatus and method for designating various segment classes For the segment class designation the temporal position of segments in two candidate segment classes is used for the stanza/refrain selection by means of a segment class designation means, wherein the highest-order segment class is designated as refrain segment clas... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 several packets; a packet loss concealing unit that produces and output... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289451 | Delay trading between communication links The available delay budget for a full-duplex communication is distributed between the links depending on their activity, present and near history. By keeping track on if a link in a full-duplex communication system is active or inactive, i.e. Knowing the information... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289461 | Communications using wideband terminals A call setup procedure is presented to permit vocoder bypass, which will allow the transmission of wideband speech packets between wideband terminals over narrowband transmission constraints. In addition, methods and apparatus are presented that allow the conversion... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289791 | Methods of recording voice signals in a mobile set The present invention relates to a mobile set integrating a memory efficient data storage system for the real time recording of voice conversations, data transmission and the like. The data recorder has the capacity to selectively choose the most relevant time frame... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289626 | Enhancement of sound quality for computer telephony systems Techniques for enhancing the sound quality of computer telephony systems are provided. In general, digital signals including telephony sounds are converted from the time domain to the frequency domain. If noise is detected in the frequency domain conversion of the d... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286749 | Moving image playback apparatus, moving image playback method, and computer program thereof with determining of first voice period which represents a human utterance period and second voice period other than the first voice period In a moving image playback apparatus, periods A which represent human utterance periods, and other periods B are determined on the basis of sub-information contained in moving image data. Based on the moving image data, periods A undergo high-speed moving image play... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282632 | Apparatus and method for changing a segmentation of an audio piece For changing a segmentation of an audio piece after a segment class assignment, at first a short segment is selected, which has a length shorter than a predetermined minimum length. This short segment is preferably merged with the corresponding successor segment or ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283953 | Process for identifying excess noise in a computer system The method of identifying excess noise in a computer system includes first recording a silence sample; second recording an isolated noise sample while operating a computer system component in isolation from other computer system components; comparing signal characte... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272552 | Voice activity detection and silence suppression in a packet network The present invention is a system and method that improves upon voice activity detection by packetizing actual noise signals, typically background noise. In accordance with the present invention an access network receives an input voice signal (including noise) and ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 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 communications using a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) or the like. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260439 | Systems and methods for the automatic extraction of audio excerpts A method of extracting audio excerpts comprises: segmenting audio data into a plurality of audio data segments; setting a fitness criteria for the plurality of audio data segments; analyzing the plurality of audio data segments based on the fitness criteria; and sel... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260541 | Audio signal decoding device and audio signal encoding device A decoding device is a decoding device that generates frequency spectral data from an inputted encoded audio data stream, and includes: a core decoding unit for decoding the inputted encoded data stream and generating lower frequency spectral data representing an au... | 08/21/2007 |
