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Audio decoding device, decoding method, and program

Patent 7555434 Issued on June 30, 2009. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject June 24, 2023. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

Apparatus for expanding narrowband speech to wideband speech by codebook correspondence of linear mapping functions
Patent #: 5978759
Issued on: 11/02/1999
Inventor: Tsushima, et al.

High frequency enhancement layer coding in wideband speech codec
Patent #: 6615169
Issued on: 09/02/2003
Inventor: Ojala ,   et al.

Audio coding systems and methods Patent #: 6675144
Issued on: 01/06/2004
Inventor: Tucker ,   et al.

Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 10485616 filed on 06/24/2003

US Classes:

704/500AUDIO SIGNAL BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION OR EXPANSION

Examiners

Primary: Vo, Huyen X.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 2489443 CA 12/01/2003
  • 0 940 015 EP 09/01/1999
  • 8-123495 JP 05/01/1996
  • 9-90992 JP 04/01/1997
  • 9-101798 JP 04/01/1997
  • 9/127998 JP 05/01/1997
  • WO 98/52187 WO 11/01/1998
  • WO-9857436 WO 12/01/1998
  • WO-0045379 WO 08/01/2000
  • WO-03/046891 WO 06/01/2003

International Class

G10L 19/00

Abstract

An energy corrector (105) for correcting a target energy for high-frequency components and a corrective coefficient calculator (106) for calculating an energy corrective coefficient from low-frequency subband signals are newly provided. These processors perform a process for correcting a target energy that is required when a band expanding process is performed on a real number only. Thus, a real subband combining filter and a real band expander which require a smaller amount of calculations can be used instead of a complex subband combining filter and a complex band expander, while maintaining a high sound-quality level, and the required amount of calculations and the apparatus scale can be reduced.

Other References

  • “A study on Synthesis Method of Band Recovery Speech”; Tsushima, et al.; Mar. 1995; pp. 249-250.
  • “A method of generation of wideband speech from band-limited speech by LPC.”; Hara, et al; Mar. 1997; pp. 277-278.
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