Patents by Inventor Ralph Sperschneider

Ralph Sperschneider has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200273466
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an error concealment signal includes an LPC (linear prediction coding) representation generator for generating a first replacement LPC representation and a different second replacement LPC representation; an LPC synthesizer for filtering a first codebook information using the first replacement representation to obtain a first replacement signal and for filtering a different second codebook information using the second replacement LPC representation to obtain a second replacement signal; and a replacement signal combiner for combining the first replacement signal and the second replacement signal to obtain the error concealment signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Jérémie LECOMTE, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Manuel JANDER
  • Publication number: 20200265846
    Abstract: An assignment of one of phase set of different loss concealment tools of an audio decoder to a portion of the audio signal to be decoded from a data stream, which portion is affected by loss, that is the selection out of the set of different loss concealment tools, may be made in a manner leading to a more pleasant loss concealment if the assignment/selection is done based on two measures: A first measure which is determined measures a spectral position of a spectral centroid of a spectrum of the audio signal and a second measure which is determined measures a temporal predictability of the audio signal. The assigned or selected loss concealment tool may then be used to recover the portion of the audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Adrian TOMASEK, Emmanuel RAVELLI, Markus SCHNELL, Alexander TSCHEKALINSKIJ, Michael SCHNABEL, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20200258530
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal is provided, having: a receiving interface for receiving one or more frames, a coefficient generator, and a signal reconstructor. The coefficient generator is configured to determine one or more first audio signal coefficients, and one or more noise coefficients. Moreover, the coefficient generator is configured to generate one or more second audio signal coefficients, depending on the one or more first audio signal coefficients and depending on the one or more noise coefficients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Goran MARKOVIC, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jérémie LECOMTE, Christian HELMRICH
  • Publication number: 20200258529
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal includes a receiving interface for receiving one or more frames comprising information on a plurality of audio signal samples of an audio signal spectrum of the encoded audio signal, and a processor for generating the reconstructed audio signal. The processor is configured to generate the reconstructed audio signal by fading a modified spectrum to a target spectrum, if a current frame is not received by the receiving interface or if the current frame is received by the receiving interface but is corrupted, wherein the modified spectrum includes a plurality of modified signal samples, wherein, for each of the modified signal samples of the modified spectrum, an absolute value of the modified signal sample is equal to an absolute value of one of the audio signal samples of the audio signal spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Goran MARKOVIC, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jérémie LECOMTE, Christian HELMRICH
  • Patent number: 10733997
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an error concealment signal, includes: an LPC representation generator for generating a replacement LPC representation; a gain calculator for calculating a gain information from the LPC representations; a compensator for compensating a gain influence of the replacement LPC representation using the gain information; and an LPC synthesizer for filtering codebook information using the replacement LPC representation to obtain the error concealment signal, wherein the compensator is configured for weighting the codebook information or an LPC synthesis output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Jérémie Lecomte, Ralph Sperschneider, Manuel Jander
  • Patent number: 10679632
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an audio signal includes a receiving interface, wherein the receiving interface is configured to receive a first frame and a second frame. Moreover, the apparatus includes a noise level tracing unit for determining noise level information being represented in a tracing domain. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a first reconstruction unit for reconstructing a third audio signal portion of the audio signal depending on the noise level information and a second reconstruction unit for reconstructing a fourth audio signal portion depending on noise level information being represented in the second reconstruction domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Goran Markovic, Ralph Sperschneider, Jérémie Lecomte, Christian Helmrich
  • Patent number: 10672404
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal is provided, having: a receiving interface for receiving one or more frames, a coefficient generator, and a signal reconstructor. The coefficient generator is configured to determine one or more first audio signal coefficients, and one or more noise coefficients. Moreover, the coefficient generator is configured to generate one or more second audio signal coefficients, depending on the one or more first audio signal coefficients and depending on the one or more noise coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Goran Markovic, Ralph Sperschneider, Jérémie Lecomte, Christian Helmrich
  • Patent number: 10621993
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an error concealment signal, includes: an LPC representation generator for generating a replacement LPC representation; an LPC synthesizer for filtering a codebook information using the replacement LPC representation; and a noise estimator for estimating a noise estimate during a reception of good audio frames, wherein the noise estimate depends on the good audio frames representation generator is configured to use the noise estimate estimated by the noise estimator in generating the replacement LPC representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Jérémie Lecomte, Ralph Sperschneider, Manuel Jander
  • Patent number: 10614818
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an error concealment signal includes an LPC (linear prediction coding) representation generator for generating a first replacement LPC representation and a different second replacement LPC representation; an LPC synthesizer for filtering a first codebook information using the first replacement representation to obtain a first replacement signal and for filtering a different second codebook information using the second replacement LPC representation to obtain a second replacement signal; and a replacement signal combiner for combining the first replacement signal and the second replacement signal to obtain the error concealment signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Jérémie Lecomte, Ralph Sperschneider, Manuel Jander
  • Patent number: 10607614
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal includes a receiving interface for receiving one or more frames comprising information on a plurality of audio signal samples of an audio signal spectrum of the encoded audio signal, and a processor for generating the reconstructed audio signal. The processor is configured to generate the reconstructed audio signal by fading a modified spectrum to a target spectrum, if a current frame is not received by the receiving interface or if the current frame is received by the receiving interface but is corrupted, wherein the modified spectrum includes a plurality of modified signal samples, wherein, for each of the modified signal samples of the modified spectrum, an absolute value of the modified signal sample is equal to an absolute value of one of the audio signal samples of the audio signal spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Goran Markovic, Ralph Sperschneider, Jérémie Lecomte, Christian Helmrich
  • Publication number: 20200020343
    Abstract: An approach is described that obtains spectrum coefficients for a replacement frame of an audio signal. A tonal component of a spectrum of an audio signal is detected based on a peak that exists in the spectra of frames preceding a replacement frame. For the tonal component of the spectrum a spectrum coefficients for the peak and its surrounding in the spectrum of the replacement frame is predicted, and for the non-tonal component of the spectrum a non-predicted spectrum coefficient for the replacement frame or a corresponding spectrum coefficient of a frame preceding the replacement frame is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Janine Sukowski, Ralph Sperschneider, Goran Markovic, Wolfgang Jaegers, Christian Helmrich, Bernd Edler, Ralf Geiger
  • Patent number: 10475455
    Abstract: An approach is described that obtains spectrum coefficients for a replacement frame of an audio signal. A tonal component of a spectrum of an audio signal is detected based on a peak that exists in the spectra of frames preceding a replacement frame. For the tonal component of the spectrum a spectrum coefficients for the peak and its surrounding in the spectrum of the replacement frame is predicted, and for the non-tonal component of the spectrum a non-predicted spectrum coefficient for the replacement frame or a corresponding spectrum coefficient of a frame preceding the replacement frame is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Janine Sukowski, Ralph Sperschneider, Goran Markovic, Wolfgang Jaegers, Christian Helmrich, Bernd Edler, Ralf Geiger
  • Publication number: 20190156840
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an error concealment signal, includes: an LPC representation generator for generating a replacement LPC representation; a gain calculator for calculating a gain information from the LPC representations; a compensator for compensating a gain influence of the replacement LPC representation using the gain information; and an LPC synthesizer for filtering codebook information using the replacement LPC representation to obtain the error concealment signal, wherein the compensator is configured for weighting the codebook information or an LPC synthesis output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Jérémie LECOMTE, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Manuel JANDER
  • Publication number: 20190074018
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an error concealment signal includes an LPC (linear prediction coding) representation generator for generating a first replacement LPC representation and a different second replacement LPC representation; an LPC synthesizer for filtering a first codebook information using the first replacement representation to obtain a first replacement signal and for filtering a different second codebook information using the second replacement LPC representation to obtain a second replacement signal; and a replacement signal combiner for combining the first replacement signal and the second replacement signal to obtain the error concealment signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Jérémie LECOMTE, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Manuel JANDER
  • Patent number: 10224041
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for generating an error concealment signal, where such techniques may include an LPC representation generator for generating a replacement LPC representation; a gain calculator for calculating a gain information from the LPC representations; a compensator for compensating a gain influence of the replacement LPC representation using the gain information; and an LPC synthesizer for filtering codebook information using the replacement LPC representation to obtain the error concealment signal, where the compensator is configured for weighting the codebook information or an LPC synthesis output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Jeremie Lecomte, Ralph Sperschneider, Manuel Jander
  • Publication number: 20190066700
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an error concealment signal, includes: an LPC representation generator for generating a replacement LPC representation; an LPC synthesizer for filtering a codebook information using the replacement LPC representation; and a noise estimator for estimating a noise estimate during a reception of good audio frames, wherein the noise estimate depends on the good audio frames representation generator is configured to use the noise estimate estimated by the noise estimator in generating the replacement LPC representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Jérémie LECOMTE, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Manuel JANDER
  • Publication number: 20190027153
    Abstract: An audio decoder configured to produce an audio signal from a bitstream containing audio frames includes: a core band decoding module configured to derive a directly decoded core band audio signal from the bitstream; a bandwidth extension module configured to derive a parametrically decoded bandwidth extension audio signal from the core band audio signal and from the bitstream, wherein the bandwidth extension audio signal is based on a frequency domain signal having at least one frequency band; and a combiner configured to combine the core band audio signal and the bandwidth extension audio signal so as to produce the audio signal; wherein the bandwidth extension module includes an energy adjusting module being configured in such way that in a current audio frame in which an audio frame loss occurs, an adjusted signal energy for the current audio frame for the at least one frequency band is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Jérémie LECOMTE, Fabian BAUER, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Arthur TRITTHART
  • Patent number: 10163444
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an error concealment signal, includes: an LPC representation generator for generating a replacement LPC representation; an LPC synthesizer for filtering a codebook information using the replacement LPC representation; and a noise estimator for estimating a noise estimate during a reception of good audio frames, wherein the noise estimate depends on the good audio frames representation generator is configured to use the noise estimate estimated by the noise estimator in generating the replacement LPC representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Jérémie Lecomte, Ralph Sperschneider, Manuel Jander
  • Patent number: 10140993
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an error concealment signal includes an LPC (linear prediction coding) representation generator for generating a first replacement LPC representation and a different second replacement LPC representation; an LPC synthesizer for filtering a first codebook information using the first replacement representation to obtain a first replacement signal and for filtering a different second codebook information using the second replacement LPC representation to obtain a second replacement signal; and a replacement signal combiner for combining the first replacement signal and the second replacement signal to obtain the error concealment signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Jérémie Lecomte, Ralph Sperschneider, Manuel Jander
  • Publication number: 20180308495
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal is provided, having: a receiving interface for receiving one or more frames, a coefficient generator, and a signal reconstructor. The coefficient generator is configured to determine one or more first audio signal coefficients, and one or more noise coefficients. Moreover, the coefficient generator is configured to generate one or more second audio signal coefficients, depending on the one or more first audio signal coefficients and depending on the one or more noise coefficients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Goran MARKOVIC, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jérémie LECOMTE, Christian HELMRICH