Patents Assigned to The DSP Group
  • Patent number: 5673364
    Abstract: A speech compression/decompression system and method which do not require special hardware are described. The compression unit represents an input audio signal as a collection of parameters, wherein the parameters are a remnant excitation pulse sequence, a set of spectral coefficients and a set of pitch parameters. The decompression unit utilizes the pitch parameters and remnant excitation pulse sequence to produce a reconstructed excitation signal. The decompression unit also utilizes the spectral coefficients to filter the reconstructed excitation signal into a speech waveform. The compression unit includes a short-term predictor, a two-step long-term predictor and a multi-pulse analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: The DSP Group Ltd.
    Inventor: Leon Bialik
  • Patent number: 5487129
    Abstract: A system for matching an input signal, comprising non-white noise and a patterned signal corrupted by said non-white noise, to a plurality of reference signals, the system including an estimator estimating noise features of said non-white noise and producing from the noise features at least one noise whitening filter; a filter generally simultaneously filtering the input signal and the plurality of reference signals using the noise whitening filter and producing a filtered input signal, having a white noise component, and a plurality of filtered reference signals; and a pattern matcher generally robust to white noise for matching the filtered input signal to one of the filtered reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: The DSP Group
    Inventors: Omri Paiss, Ilan D. Shallom, Felix Flomen, Raziel Haimi-Cohen
  • Patent number: 5426652
    Abstract: A data reception apparatus and technique for use with a modem and including the functions of receiving via the modem a signal including a plurality of datapoints and including therein desired data and inherently redundant data, wherein upon reception of each datapoint, the modem produces quality information regarding how accurately the datapoint was received and identifying and correcting errors introduced into the signal through use of the inherently redundant data and the quality information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: The DSP Group Inc.
    Inventor: Arie Heiman
  • Patent number: 5012519
    Abstract: Noise in a speech-plus-noise input signal is suppressed by splitting the input signal into spectral channels and decreasing the gain in the each channel which has a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). A voice operated switch (VOX) acts to detect noise-only input to gate a background noise (input signal) estimator and also to gate a residual noise (output signal) estimator. The gain in each of the channels is controlled by the current value (a posteriori) input signal SNR estimate, modified by the prior value (a priori) input signal SNR estimate, and smoothed as a function of the residual (output noise signal) estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: The DSP Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Shabtai Adlersberg, Yoram Stettiner, Mendel Aizner, Alberto Berstein
  • Patent number: 4959865
    Abstract: A voice operated switch employs digital signal processing techniques to examine audio signal frames having harmonic content to identify voiced phonemes and to determined whether the signal frame contains primarily speech or noise. The method and apparatus employ a multiple-stage, delayed-decision adaptive digital signal processing algorithm implemented through the use of commonly available electronic circuit components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: The DSP Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoram Stettiner, Shabtai Adlersberg, Mendel Aizner
  • Patent number: 4907276
    Abstract: An encoder apparatus for communication and pattern recognition systems employing a nearest neighbor search method for signal and data compression, based on a vector encoding quantization technique which optimizes systems performance with substantially reduced computational complexity using a fast geometrically-oriented search procedure. The apparatus comprises pre-procesing apparatus for providing off-line reorganization of a codebook having a set of reference vector patterns constituting codevectors with which the input vector is to be compared in a search procedure, and on-line apparatus for encoding the random input vector through quantization in accordance with the search procedure in the codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignee: The DSP Group (Israel) Ltd.
    Inventor: Shabtai Aldersberg
  • Patent number: 4864620
    Abstract: Pre-recorded speech is played back at a different rate, without pitch change. Adjacent signal segments are combined with best match processing. Method and apparatus process time domain speech signals containing speech information, the rate of reproduction of which is to be varied without changing pitch, wherein the input signal is processed by capturing input time domain speech samples in frames wherein the number of samples per frame is a function of a desired speech change factor, forming blocks from the frames, additively cross correlating input blocks with prior-processed or output blocks, preferably by means of an Average Magnitude Difference Function, to obtain a time relation of best match for the rate of reproduction, adding consecutive input and output blocks at the point of maximum correlation, and applying a window function between the overlapping portions of the output block and the input block to obtain a new output block. The method does not require multiplication or division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: The DSP Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Leonid Bialick