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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150683 | Apparatus, method, and computer program for comparing audio signals An apparatus, method, and computer program are capable of receiving and cross-correlating a first audio signal and a second audio signal. This produces a cross-correlated signal, which is used to identify a plurality of parameters associated with at least one of the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8131541 | Two microphone noise reduction system A two microphone noise reduction system is described. In an embodiment, input signals from each of the microphones are divided into subbands and each subband is then filtered independently to separate noise and desired signals and to suppress non-stationary and stat... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8036886 | Estimation of pulsed speech model parameters Methods for estimating speech model parameters are disclosed. For pulsed parameter estimation, a speech signal is divided into multiple frequency bands or channels using bandpass filters. Channel processing reduces sensitivity to pole magnitudes and frequencies and ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032361 | Audio processing apparatus and method for processing two sampled audio signals to detect a temporal position An audio processing apparatus for processing two sampled audio signals to detect a temporal position of one of the audio signals with respect to the other. The apparatus detects audio power characteristics of each signal in respect of successive continuous temporal ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8009966 | Methods and apparatus for use in sound replacement with automatic synchronization to images Digital audio and video files are created corresponding to selected scenes from a creative production and are provided with a processing system that enables dialog to be selected from a scene and replaced by a user's dialog which is automatically synchronized with t... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996216 | Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal In one embodiment, at least first and second channels in a frame of the audio signal are independently subdivided into blocks if the first and second channels are not correlated with each other. At least two of the blocks have different block lengths. Furthermore, t... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7962332 | Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an audio data frame having at least first and second channels. The first and second channels are independently subdivided into blocks if the first and second channels are not correlated with each other. The first and ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7848921 | Low-frequency-band component and high-frequency-band audio encoding/decoding apparatus, and communication apparatus thereof An audio encoding apparatus capable of improving a frame cancellation error tolerance without increasing a number of bits of a fixed codebook in a CELP type audio encoding. A linear prediction analyzer analyzes an input digital speech signal and outputs linear predi... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7734464 | RF autocorrelation signal trigger generator An autocorrelation trigger comprising a correlator detector for producing a correlation coefficient by correlating a signal with a time-delayed version of the signal and generating a trigger in real-time when the correlation coefficient corresponds to a predetermine... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7529661 | Pitch extraction methods and systems for speech coding using quadratically-interpolated and filtered peaks for multiple time lag extraction A method of attempting to determine a pitch period of an audio signal using a correlation-based signal derived from the audio signal. The correlation-based signal has known peaks, having been quadratically interpolated and filtered with coefficients that are a funct... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7457745 | Method and apparatus for fast on-line automatic speaker/environment adaptation for speech/speaker recognition in the presence of changing environments A fast on-line automatic speaker/environment adaptation suitable for speech/speaker recognition system, method and computer program product are presented. The system comprises a computer system including a processor, a memory coupled with the processor, an input cou... | 11/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7412380 | Ambience extraction and modification for enhancement and upmix of audio signals Modifying an audio signal comprising a plurality of channel signals is disclosed. At least selected ones of the channel signals are transformed into a time-frequency domain. The at least selected ones of the channel signals are compared in the time-frequency domain ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412384 | Digital signal processing method, learning method, apparatuses for them, and program storage medium A digital signal processing method and learning method and devices therefor, and a program storage medium which are capable of further improving the waveform reproducibility of a digital signal. Self correlation coefficients are calculated by cutting parts out of th... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7366659 | Methods and devices for selectively generating time-scaled sound signals Time-scaled, sound signals (i.e. sounds output at differing speeds) are generated by mixing weighted time-and frequency-domain processed signals, the former signal generally representing speech-based signals while the latter representing music-based signals. The wei... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363219 | Hybrid speech coding and system Hybrid linear predictive speech coding system with phase alignment predictive quantization zero phase alignment of speech prior to waveform coding aligns synthesized speech frames of a waveform coder with frames synthesized with a parametric coder. Inter-frame inter... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349849 | Spacing for microphone elements A speech recognition device with a frequency range with an upper frequency limit fmax is provided. The speech recognition device has more than two microphones with distances between the microphones, wherein the greatest common factor of the distances betw... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337109 | Multiple step adaptive method for time scaling A multiple step adaptive method for time scaling. Synthesizing S3[n] signal from signal S1[n]signal and S2[n]signal. Comprising following steps: (a) calculating a first magnitude of a cross-correlation function of S1[n]sig... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328162 | 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), followed by spectral-band replication (105) at the decoder ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7313518 | Noise reduction method and device using two pass filtering The device calculates a first frequency-dependent useful signal level estimator for the frame. The transfer function of a first noise-reducing filter is determined on the basis of the first useful signal level estimator and of a frequency-dependent noise level estim... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305337 | Method and apparatus for speech coding and decoding The present invention includes a method for speech encoding and decoding and a design of speech coder and decoder. The characteristic of speech encoding method relies on the type of data with high compression rate after the whole speech data is compressed. The prese... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302396 | System and method for cross-fading between audio streams A system and method of the present invention cross-fade a first transmitted audio stream to a second transmitted audio stream, wherein both first and second audio streams represent the same original audio signal, but at different quality levels. A client computer re... | 11/27/2007 |
| 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 (VoIP). The focused search method of the fixed codebook includes: calcu... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289952 | Excitation vector generator, speech coder and speech decoder A random code vector reading section and a random codebook of a conventional CELP type speech coder/decoder are respectively replaced with an oscillator for outputting different vector streams in accordance with values of input seeds, and a seed storage section for ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283954 | Comparing audio using characterizations based on auditory events A method for determining if one audio signal is derived from another audio signal or if two audio signals are derived from the same audio signal compares reduced-information characterizations of said audio signals, wherein said characterizations are based on auditor... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277820 | Apparatus and method for generating a complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) curve In apparatus for generating a Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function (CCDF) curve for an input signal, an analog to digital converter (ADC) samples the input signal at sampling points to provide a parameter value corresponding to a desired parameter of the i... | 10/02/2007 |
| 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 processing can be carried out using processors with whole-numbe... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266493 | Pitch determination based on weighting of pitch lag candidates There is provided a method of selecting a pitch lag value from a plurality of pitch lag candidates for coding a speech signal. The method comprises identifying the plurality of pitch lag candidates from a frame of the speech signal using correlation; classifying the... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257161 | Frequency thinning apparatus for thinning out frequency components of signal and frequency thinning apparatus An analyzer transforms a digital signal into a spectrum representing the digital signal. A spectrum analyzing unit specifies a predetermined number of sets of the bands in decreasing order of the correlation between the spectrum distributions from among the bands ob... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257535 | Parametric speech codec for representing synthetic speech in the presence of background noise A system and method are provided for processing audio and speech signals using a pitch and voicing dependent spectral estimation algorithm (voicing algorithm) to accurately represent voiced speech, unvoiced speech, and mixed speech in the presence of background nois... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251597 | Method for tracking a pitch signal A method for tracking pitch signal, including receiving a detected pitch signal that consists of a succession of pitch values, and for each current pitch value in the detected signal perform the following steps: constructing sub-sequences of consistent pitch values ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7243065 | Low-complexity comfort noise generator A comfort noise generator (104) suitable for use in a communication system includes a finite impulse response (FIR) filter (136), a random number generator (140), and a coefficient updater (138). The coefficient updater (138) deter... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236927 | Pitch extraction methods and systems for speech coding using interpolation techniques A method of searching for an interpolated peak of a Normalized Correlation Square (NCS) signal derived from an audio signal, comprises: producing quadratically interpolated correlation (QIC) signal values at interpolated time lags; squaring each of the QIC signal va... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7222070 | Hybrid speech coding and system Linear predictive speech coding system with classification of frames and a hybrid coder using both waveform coding and parametric coding for different classes of frames. Phase alignment for a parametric coder aligns synthesized speech frames with adjacent waveform c... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7194141 | Image resolution conversion using pixel dropping A system for generating image conversion data is provided. The system includes a numerator buffer storing numerator data of a conversion ratio, such as where the numerator of the ratio represents the relative current size of a set of image data and the denominator o... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191128 | Method and system for distinguishing speech from music in a digital audio signal in real time The present invention relates to method and system for distinguishing speech from music in a digital audio signal in real time. A method for distinguishing speech from music in a digital audio signal in real time for the sound segments that have been segmented from ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187730 | Method and apparatus for predicting CCK subsymbols An apparatus and a method for symbol decoding of baseband data in a wireless communications network is disclosed, and specifically CCK subsymbol prediction and symbol demodulation that occurs at 5.5 Mbps or 11 Mbps. The apparatus is configured to demodulate or predi... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7155386 | Adaptive correlation window for open-loop pitch An approach for adaptively adjusting the correlation window for open-loop pitch determination is presented. Correlation between a windowed reference signal (or target signal) and a candidate signal is maximized under most conditions by sliding the reference window b... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7139700 | Hybrid speech coding and system Linear predictive speech coding system with classification of frames and a hybrid coder using both waveform coding and parametric coding for different classes of frames. Phase alignment for a parametric coder aligns synthesized speech frames with adjacent waveform c... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130292 | Optical processor enhanced receiver architecture (opera) A method and apparatus for enhancing the receiving and information identification functions of multiple access communications systems by employing one or more optical processors configured as a bank of 1-D correlators. The present invention is particularly useful in... | 10/31/2006 |
