Patents by Inventor Jérémie Lecomte

Jérémie Lecomte 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: 20160379650
    Abstract: An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information includes an error concealment configured to provide an error concealment audio information for concealing a loss of an audio frame following an audio frame encoded in a frequency domain representation using a time domain excitation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Jérémie Lecomte, Goran Markovic, Michael Schnabel, Grzegorz Pietrzyk
  • Publication number: 20160379645
    Abstract: An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information. The audio decoder has an error concealment configured to provide an error concealment audio information for concealing a loss of an audio frame, wherein the error concealment is configured to modify a time domain excitation signal obtained for one or more audio frames preceding a lost audio frame, in order to obtain the error concealment audio information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventor: Jérémie Lecomte
  • Publication number: 20160379646
    Abstract: An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information. The audio decoder has an error concealment configured to provide an error concealment audio information for concealing a loss of an audio frame, wherein the error concealment is configured to modify a time domain excitation signal obtained for one or more audio frames preceding a lost audio frame, in order to obtain the error concealment audio information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventor: Jérémie Lecomte
  • Publication number: 20160379651
    Abstract: An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information includes an error concealment configured to provide an error concealment audio information for concealing a loss of an audio frame following an audio frame encoded in a frequency domain representation using a time domain excitation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Jérémie Lecomte, Goran Markovic, Michael Schnabel, Grzegorz Pietrzyk
  • Publication number: 20160247506
    Abstract: An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information includes an error concealment configured to provide an error concealment audio information for concealing a loss of an audio frame following an audio frame encoded in a frequency domain representation using a time domain excitation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Jérémie Lecomte, Goran Markovic, Michael Schnabel, Grzegorz Pietrzyk
  • Publication number: 20160240203
    Abstract: An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information. The audio decoder has an error concealment configured to provide an error concealment audio information for concealing a loss of an audio frame, wherein the error concealment is configured to modify a time domain excitation signal obtained for one or more audio frames preceding a lost audio frame, in order to obtain the error concealment audio information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventor: Jérémie Lecomte
  • Patent number: 9384739
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating spectral replacement values for an audio signal has a buffer unit for storing previous spectral values relating to a previously received error-free audio frame. Moreover, the apparatus includes a concealment frame generator for generating the spectral replacement values, when a current audio frame has not been received or is erroneous. The previously received error-free audio frame has filter information, the filter information having associated a filter stability value indicating a stability of a prediction filter. The concealment frame generator is adapted to generate the spectral replacement values based on the previous spectral values and based on the filter stability value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Technische Universitaet Ilmenau
    Inventors: Jeremie Lecomte, Martin Dietz, Michael Schnabel, Ralph Sperschneider
  • Publication number: 20160180857
    Abstract: A jitter buffer control for controlling a provision of a decoded audio content on the basis of an input audio content is configured to select a frame-based time scaling or a sample-based time scaling in a signal-adaptive manner. An audio decoder uses such a jitter buffer control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Stefan REUSCHL, Stefan DOEHLA, Jeremie LECOMTE, Manuel JANDER
  • Publication number: 20160180854
    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 de-coded 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 cur-rent audio frame for the at least one frequency band is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Jeremie LECOMTE, Fabian BAUER, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Arthur TRITTHART
  • Publication number: 20160171990
    Abstract: A time scaler for providing a time scaled version of an input audio signal is configured to compute or estimate a quality of a time scaled version of the input audio signal obtainable by a time scaling of the input audio signal. The time scaler is configured to perform the time scaling of the input audio signal in dependence on the computation or estimation of the quality of the time scaled version of the input audio signal obtainable by the time scaling. An audio decoder has such a time scaler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Stefan REUSCHL, Stefan DOEHLA, Jeremie LECOMTE, Manuel JANDER, Nikolaus FAERBER
  • Publication number: 20160118053
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining an estimated pitch lag is provided. The apparatus includes an input interface for receiving a plurality of original pitch lag values, and a pitch lag estimator for estimating the estimated pitch lag. The pitch lag estimator is configured to estimate the estimated pitch lag depending on a plurality of original pitch lag values and depending on a plurality of information values, wherein for each original pitch lag value of the plurality of original pitch lag values, an information value of the plurality of information values is assigned to the original pitch lag value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Jeremie Lecomte, Michael Schnabel, Goran Markovic, Martin Dietz, Bernhard Neugebauer
  • Publication number: 20160111094
    Abstract: An apparatus for reconstructing a frame including a speech signal as a reconstructed frame is provided, the apparatus including a determination unit and a frame reconstructor being configured to reconstruct the reconstructed frame, such that the reconstructed frame completely or partially includes the first reconstructed pitch cycle, such that the reconstructed frame completely or partially includes a second reconstructed pitch cycle, and such that the number of samples of the first reconstructed pitch cycle differs from a number of samples of the second reconstructed pitch cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Jeremie Lecomte, Michael Schnabel, Goran Markovic, Martin Dietz, Bernhard Neugebauer
  • Publication number: 20160111095
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an audio signal is provided, having a receiving interface, configured to receive a first frame having a first audio signal portion of the audio signal, and configured to receive a second frame having a second audio signal portion of the audio signal; a noise level tracing unit, wherein the noise level tracing unit is configured to determine noise level information depending on at least one of the first audio signal portion and the second audio signal portion; a first reconstruction unit for reconstructing, in a first reconstruction domain, a third audio signal portion of the audio signal depending on the noise level information; a transform unit for transforming the noise level information to a second reconstruction domain; and a second reconstruction unit for reconstructing, in the second reconstruction domain, a fourth audio signal portion of the audio signal depending on the noise level information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Markovic GORAN, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jeremie LECOMTE, Christian HELMRICH
  • Publication number: 20160104487
    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: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Goran MARKOVIC, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jeremie LECOMTE, Christian HELMRICH
  • Publication number: 20160104488
    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: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Goran MARKOVIC, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jeremie LECOMTE, Christian HELMRICH
  • Publication number: 20160104489
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal is provided. The apparatus includes a receiving interface, a delay buffer and a sample processor for processing the selected audio signal samples to obtain reconstructed audio signal samples of the reconstructed audio signal. The sample selector is configured to select, if a current frame is received by the receiving interface and if the current frame being received by the receiving interface is not corrupted, the plurality of selected audio signal samples from the audio signal samples being stored in the delay buffer depending on a pitch lag information being included by the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Goran MARKOVIC, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jeremie LECOMTE, Christian HELMRICH
  • Publication number: 20160104497
    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: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Goran MARKOVIC, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jeremie LECOMTE, Christian HELMRICH
  • Publication number: 20160078875
    Abstract: An apparatus for encoding an audio or image signal, includes: a controllable windower for windowing the audio or image signal to provide the sequence of blocks of windowed samples; a converter for converting the sequence of blocks of windowed samples into a spectral representation including a sequence of frames of spectral values; a transient location detector for identifying a location of a transient within a transient look-ahead region of a frame; and a controller for controlling the controllable windower to apply a specific window having a specified overlap length to the audio or image signal in response to an identified location of the transient, wherein the controller is configured to select the specific window from a group of at least three windows, wherein the specific window is selected based on the transient location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Christian HELMRICH, Jeremie LECOMTE, Goran MARKOVIC, Markus SCHNELL, Bernd EDLER, Stefan REUSCHL
  • Publication number: 20160050420
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an encoded signal includes: a window sequence controller for generating a window sequence information for windowing an audio or image signal, the window sequence information indicating a first window for generating a first frame of spectral values, a second window function and at least one third window function for generating a second frame of spectral values, wherein the first window function, the second window function and the one or more third window functions overlap within a multi-overlap region; a preprocessor for windowing a second block of samples corresponding to the second window function and the at least one third window functions using an auxiliary window function to acquire a second block of windowed samples, a spectrum converter for applying an aliasing-introducing transform; and a processor for processing the first frame and the second frame to acquire encoded frames of the audio or image signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Christian HELMRICH, Jeremie LECOMTE, Goran MARKOVIC, Markus SCHNELL, Bernd EDLER, Stefan REUSCHL
  • Patent number: 9257130
    Abstract: A codec supporting switching between time-domain aliasing cancellation transform coding mode and time-domain coding mode is made less liable to frame loss by adding a further syntax portion to the frames, depending on which the parser of the decoder may select between a first action of expecting the current frame to have, and thus reading forward aliasing cancellation data from the current frame and a second action of not-expecting the current frame to have, and thus not reading forward aliasing cancellation data from the current frame. In other words, while a bit of coding efficiency is lost due to the provision of the new syntax portion, it is merely the new syntax portion which provides for the ability to use the codec in case of a communication channel with frame loss. Without the new syntax portion, the decoder would not be capable of decoding any data stream portion after a loss and will crash in trying to resume parsing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Jeremie Lecomte, Patrick Warmbold, Stefan Bayer