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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117029 | Method and apparatus for matching sound quality measurement sections of variable bandwidth multi-codec Provided is a transmission apparatus for matching sound quality measurement sections of a variable bandwidth multi-codec. The apparatus includes a measurement section setting unit setting a measurement section, which is to be measured for sound quality, in units of ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8095526 | Efficient retrieval of variable-length character string data Prefixes are registered on a first list as index elements for respective registration patterns. Each prefix is selected as the longest of different-length prefixes that are extractable from a registration pattern in accordance with an extraction rule. Suffixes, whic... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8036887 | CELP speech decoder modifying an input vector with a fixed waveform to transform a waveform of the input vector A CELP speech decoder includes an adaptive codebook that generates an adaptive code vector and a random codebook that generates a random code vector. The random codebook includes an input vector provider that provides an input vector including at least one pulse, ea... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8019599 | Speech codecs A method and apparatus include a voice activity detection module configured to detect silent frames, and a codec mode selection module configured to determine a codec mode. The voice activity detection module includes a receiver configured to receive a frame, a firs... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7996217 | Method for adaptive codebook pitch-lag computation in audio transcoders An apparatus for processing adaptive codebook pitch lag from one CELP based standard to another CELP based standard. The apparatus has various modules that perform at least the functionality described herein. The apparatus includes a time-base subframe checker inspe... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7970606 | Interoperable vocoder Encoding a sequence of digital speech samples into a bit stream includes dividing the digital speech samples into one or more frames and computing a set of model parameters for the frames. The set of model parameters includes at least a first parameter conveying pit... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970607 | Method and system for low bit rate voice encoding and decoding applicable for any reduced bandwidth requirements including wireless An implementation of the present invention comprises a voice encoder and decoder method and system that uses voice excitation, eliminating the voice/unvoiced pitch tracking, and the first formant up to 2400 Hertz for synchronous and up to 1600 Hertz for asynchronous... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962333 | Method for high quality audio 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 data according to a second voice compression standard using perceptual w... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7941314 | Fixed codebook search method and searcher A fixed codebook search method includes: initializing a counter; searching for pulses and calculating the value of a cost function Qk; initializing the counter if the Qk value increases; increasing the value of the counter if the Qk value does not increase; judging ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7908136 | Fixed codebook search method and searcher A fixed codebook search method includes initializing a counter, searching for pulses and calculating the value of a cost function Qk, initializing the counter if the Qk value increases, increasing the value of the counter if the Qk value does not increase, judging w... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7873513 | Speech transcoding in GSM networks There is provided a method of transcoding an Enhance Full Rate (EFR) 12.2 Kbps encoded frame into an Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) 12.2 Kbps encoded frame, where the method comprises receiving the EFR 12.2 Kbps encoded frame from a first codec; determining if the EFR 12... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7747431 | Code conversion method and device, program, and recording medium An audio decoding device (1) generates a first decoded audio from a first code string by a first decoding method, AN audio encoding device (2) judges whether the first decoded audio is an audio signal or a non-audio signal by using the information cont... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7725312 | Transcoding method and system between CELP-based speech codes with externally provided status A method for transcoding a CELP based compressed voice bitstream from source codec to destination codec. The method includes processing a source codec input CELP bitstream to unpack at least one or more CELP parameters from the input CELP bitstream and interpolating... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7630885 | Dialed digits based vocoder assignment A system and method for providing voice communications with desired characteristics based upon the intended recipient of a voice communication. An apparatus includes a list of dial strings associated with parties having desired voice communication characteristics. A... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7613606 | Speech codecs A method of encoding a frame in a communication network using multiple codec modes, wherein the frame encoded by each codec mode is represented by multiple parameters. The method includes at least one stage, wherein the stage includes the steps of selecting one grou... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7580834 | Fixed sound source vector generation method and fixed sound source codebook At the speech encoding end, upon generation of an fixed excitation vector, the shape of an excitation vector output from pulse excitation codebook 301 is identified in pulse excitation vector shape identifier 302, a dispersion vector used for excitatio... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7577566 | Method for encoding sound source of probabilistic code book A stochastic codebook associates a pulse position of a predetermined channel with a pulse position of another channel, searches for a pulse position by means of a predetermined algorithm, and outputs a code combining a found pulse position with a polarity code to an... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7571094 | Circuits, processes, devices and systems for codebook search reduction in speech coders An electronic circuit includes storage circuitry and a speech coder coupled with the storage circuitry to have a codebook with sets of track location numbers for respective pulses, the speech coder operable to identify a group of track location numbers in the codebo... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7565287 | Methods and apparatus for efficient vocoder implementations Techniques for implementing vocoders in parallel digital signal processors are described. A preferred approach is implemented in conjunction with the BOPS® Manifold Array (ManArray™) processing architecture so that in an array of N parallel processing elements, N... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7496505 | Variable rate speech coding A method and apparatus for the variable rate coding of a speech signal. An input speech signal is classified and an appropriate coding mode is selected based on this classification. For each classification, the coding mode that achieves the lowest bit rate with an a... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7433815 | Method and apparatus for voice transcoding between variable rate coders A variable-rate voice transcoder that transcodes a bitstream representing frames of data encoded according to a first compression standard to a bitstream representing frames of data according to a second compression standard; the second compression standard defines ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7406410 | Encoding and decoding method and apparatus using rising-transition detection and notification A decoding apparatus is provided. The decoding apparatus has a first decoding part for decoding a code word obtained by encoding an input signal using a Code-Excited Linear Prediction encoding method. A second decoding part decodes a code word obtained by encoding a... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398205 | Code excited linear prediction speech decoder and method thereof An excitation vector generator includes an input vector providing system that is capable of providing an input vector having at least one pulse, each pulse having a predetermined position and a respective polarity. A fixed waveform storage system is capable of stori... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395202 | Method and apparatus to facilitate vocoder erasure processing Upon receiving (101) a vocoded voice frame and detecting (102) that the received vocoded voice frame comprises an erased frame, one automatically replaces (103) the erased frame with a valid frame having at least one error condition. In a prefer... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386447 | Speech coder and method An overflow problem of LSF quantization in G.729 Annex B speech encoding which may lead to non-assignment of a codebook index. Preferred embodiments fix the problem with default or limited random variable assignments or flagging the overflow and adjusting the frame ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7366666 | Relative delta computations for determining the meaning of language inputs A method for processing language input can include the step of determining at least two possible meanings for a language input. For each possible meaning, a probability that the possible meaning is a correct interpretation of the language input can be determined. At... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366663 | Measuring a talking quality of a telephone link in a telecommunications network For measuring the influence of noise on the talking quality of a telephone link in a telecommunications network, a talker speech signal (s(t)) and a degraded speech signal (s′(t)) are fed to an objective measurement device for obtaining an output signal (q) repres... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363218 | Method and apparatus for fast CELP parameter mapping An apparatus and method for mapping CELP parameters between a source codec and a destination codec. The apparatus includes an LSP mapping module, an adaptive codebook mapping module coupled to the LSP mapping module, and a fixed codebook mapping module coupled to th... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353176 | Actuation system for an agent oriented architecture Roughly described, the invention addresses the above problems by separating an actuation subsystem from the natural language interpretation system. The NLI develops “interpretation result commands” in response to user input, and transmits them to the actuation s... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7330902 | Header compression A method for communicating a message over a data path by means of data transfer apparatus capable of transmitting the data over the data path, generating a representation of the data as received from the data path and generating an indication of the communication qu... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7315814 | Method and apparatus providing adaptive multi-rate speech coding A wireless telecommunications system comprises a mobile station (MS) and a network. The mobile station has a multi-rate speech encoder which produces an encoded speech signal which is transmitted to the network. The network has a multi-rate speech decoder which deco... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311138 | Stacking-type, multi-flow, heat exchangers and methods for manufacturing such heat exchangers A stacking-type, multi-flow, heat exchanger includes heat transfer tubes and fins, which are stacked alternately, an end plate disposed at an outermost position of the stacked heat transfer tubes and fins in a stacking direction, and inlet and outlet pipes connected... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7295970 | Unsupervised speaker segmentation of multi-speaker speech data Systems and methods for unsupervised segmentation of multi-speaker speech or audio data by speaker. A front-end analysis is applied to input speech data to obtain feature vectors. The speech data is initially segmented and then clustered into groups of segments that... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289951 | Method for improving the coding efficiency of an audio signal The invention relates to a method for improving the coding accuracy and transmission efficiency of an audio signal. According to the method, a part of the audio signal to be coded is compared with earlier stored samples of the audio signal and a reference sequence o... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283961 | High-quality speech synthesis device and method by classification and prediction processing of synthesized sound There is disclosed a speech processing device in which prediction taps for finding prediction values of the speech of high sound quality are extracted from the synthesized sound obtained on affording linear prediction coefficients and residual signals, generated fro... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275036 | Apparatus and method for coding a time-discrete audio signal to obtain coded audio data and for decoding coded audio data A time-discrete audio signal is processed to provide a quantization block with quantized spectral values. Furthermore, an integer spectral representation is generated from the time-discrete audio signal using an integer transform algorithm. The quantization block ha... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272135 | Gateway apparatus A gateway apparatus according to the present invention, arranged between each of a plurality of circuit switched networks and the Internet, for transmitting data received from each of the circuit switched network to the Internet. The gateway apparatus comprises an e... | 09/18/2007 |
| 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 method includes providing an input speech signal, dividing the speech sign... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272556 | Scalable and embedded codec for speech and audio signals A system and method for processing of audio and speech signals is disclosed, which provide compatibility over a range of communication devices operating at different sampling frequencies and/or bit rates. The analyzer of the system divides the input signal in differ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 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) architecture for the design, and also uses the modular design to divi... | 09/04/2007 |
