Patents by Inventor Noboru Harada
Noboru Harada 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).
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Publication number: 20200176007Abstract: A coding technology that efficiently codes an input sound signal irrespective of the characteristics thereof and can obtain a decoded sound signal that sounds less artificial to a listener. A coding method codes an input sound signal frame by frame of a predetermined time segment by a selected coding processing from a plurality of types of coding processing in the frequency domain, the coding method makes it possible for a selection unit to select coding processing which is different from the coding processing of the preceding frame as coding processing of the present frame if at least one of the magnitude of the energy of high frequency components of the input sound signal of the preceding frame and the magnitude of the energy of high frequency components of the input sound signal of the present frame is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takehiro MORIYA, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada
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Publication number: 20200162102Abstract: An encoding/decoding technique is provided with which encoding can be performed using a small average number of bits even for a sequence of integer values including small non-zero values and having a distribution heavily biased toward small values. The present invention includes an integer encoding part 110 that, with respect to an inputted sequence of non-negative integer values x_n, n? {1, 2, . . . , N} (hereinafter referred to as an “integer sequence”), obtains a 1-bit code as a code corresponding to a run of integer values 0 of length L, a predetermined number which satisfies 2?L?2K?1, which is included in the integer sequence and obtains a (K×x_n)-bit or (K×x_n+1)-bit code as a code corresponding to a set of a run of integer values 0 of length from 0 to L?1 and one non-zero integer value x_n included in the integer sequence, where K is assumed to be an integer equal to or larger than 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke SUGIURA, Yutaka KAMAMOTO, Takehiro MORIYA, Noboru HARADA
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Patent number: 10643631Abstract: The present invention reduces encoding distortion in frequency domain encoding compared to conventional techniques, and obtains LSP parameters that correspond to quantized LSP parameters for the preceding frame and are to be used in time domain encoding from coefficients equivalent to linear prediction coefficients resulting from frequency domain encoding. When p is an integer equal to or greater than 1, a linear prediction coefficient sequence which is obtained by linear prediction analysis of audio signals in a predetermined time segment is represented as a[1], a[2], . . . , a[p], and ?[1], ?[2], . . . , ?[p] are a frequency domain parameter sequence derived from the linear prediction coefficient sequence a[1], a[2], . . . , a[p], an LSP linear transformation unit (300) determines the value of each converted frequency domain parameter ˜?[i] (i=1, 2, . . . , p) in a converted frequency domain parameter sequence ˜?[1], ˜?[2], . . . , ˜?[p] using the frequency domain parameter sequence ?[1], ?[2], . . .Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, The University of TokyoInventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada, Hirokazu Kameoka, Ryosuke Sugiura
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Patent number: 10629214Abstract: An encoder and a decoder are provided that are capable of reproducing a frequency-domain envelope sequence that provides high approximation accuracy around peaks caused by the pitch period of an audio signal by using a small amount of code. An encoder of the present invention comprises a periodic-combined-envelope generating part and a variable-length coding part. The periodic-combined-envelope generating part generates a periodic combined envelope sequence which is a frequency-domain sequence based on a spectral envelope sequence which is a frequency-domain sequence corresponding to a linear predictive coefficient code obtained from an input audio signal and on a frequency-domain period. The variable-length coding part encodes a frequency-domain sequence derived from the input audio signal. A decoder of the present invention comprises a periodic-combined-envelope generating part and a variable-length decoding part.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada
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Patent number: 10629217Abstract: A coding technology that efficiently codes an input sound signal irrespective of the characteristics thereof and can obtain a decoded sound signal that sounds less artificial to a listener. A coding method codes an input sound signal frame by frame of a predetermined time segment by a selected coding processing from a plurality of types of coding processing in the frequency domain, the coding method makes it possible for a selection unit to select coding processing which is different from the coding processing of the preceding frame as coding processing of the present frame if at least one of the magnitude of the energy of high frequency components of the input sound signal of the preceding frame and the magnitude of the energy of high frequency components of the input sound signal of the present frame is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada
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Patent number: 10607616Abstract: An encoder and a decoder are provided that are capable of reproducing a frequency-domain envelope sequence that provides high approximation accuracy around peaks caused by the pitch period of an audio signal by using a small amount of code. An encoder of the present invention comprises a periodic-combined-envelope generating part and a variable-length coding part. The periodic-combined-envelope generating part generates a periodic combined envelope sequence which is a frequency-domain sequence based on a spectral envelope sequence which is a frequency-domain sequence corresponding to a linear predictive coefficient code obtained from an input audio signal and on a frequency-domain period. The variable-length coding part encodes a frequency-domain sequence derived from the input audio signal. A decoder of the present invention comprises a periodic-combined-envelope generating part and a variable-length decoding part.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada
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Publication number: 20200090664Abstract: In encoding, a frequency-domain sample sequence derived from an acoustic signal is divided by a weighted envelope and is then divided by a gain, the result obtained is quantized, and each sample is variable-length encoded. The error between the sample before quantization and the sample after quantization is quantized with information saved in this variable-length encoding. This quantization is performed under a rule that specifies, according to the number of saved bits, samples whose errors are to be quantized. In decoding, variable-length codes in an input sequence of codes are decoded to obtain a frequency-domain sample sequence; an error signal is further decoded under a rule that depends on the number of bits of the variable-length codes; and from the obtained sample sequence, the original sample sequence is obtained according to supplementary information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takehiro MORIYA, Noboru Harada, Yutaka Kamamoto, Yusuke Hiwasaki, Masahiro Fukui
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Publication number: 20200090665Abstract: In encoding, a frequency-domain sample sequence derived from an acoustic signal is divided by a weighted envelope and is then divided by a gain, the result obtained is quantized, and each sample is variable-length encoded. The error between the sample before quantization and the sample after quantization is quantized with information saved in this variable-length encoding. This quantization is performed under a rule that specifies, according to the number of saved bits, samples whose errors are to be quantized. In decoding, variable-length codes in an input sequence of codes are decoded to obtain a frequency-domain sample sequence; an error signal is further decoded under a rule that depends on the number of bits of the variable-length codes; and from the obtained sample sequence, the original sample sequence is obtained according to supplementary information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takehiro MORIYA, Noboru HARADA, Yutaka KAMAMOTO, Yusuke HIWASAKI, Masahiro FUKUI
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Publication number: 20200090673Abstract: A technology of accurately coding and decoding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients even for a frame in which the spectrum variation is great while suppressing an increase in the code amount as a whole is provided. A coding device includes: a first coding unit that obtains a first code by coding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of more than one order; and a second coding unit that obtains a second code by coding at least quantization errors of the first coding unit if (A?1) an index Q commensurate with how high the peak-to-valley height of a spectral envelope is, the spectral envelope corresponding to the coefficients which are convertible into the linear prediction coefficients of more than one order, is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1 and/or (B?1) an index Q? commensurate with how short the peak-to-valley height of the spectral envelope is, is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1?.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada
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Publication number: 20200043506Abstract: The present invention reduces encoding distortion in frequency domain encoding compared to conventional techniques, and obtains LSP parameters that correspond to quantized LSP parameters for the preceding frame and are to be used in time domain encoding from coefficients equivalent to linear prediction coefficients resulting from frequency domain encoding. When p is an integer equal to or greater than 1, a linear prediction coefficient sequence which is obtained by linear prediction analysis of audio signals in a predetermined time segment is represented as a[1], a[2], . . . , a[p], and ?[1], ?[2], . . . , ?[p] are a frequency domain parameter sequence derived from the linear prediction coefficient sequence a[1], a[2], . . . , a[p], an LSP linear transformation unit (300) determines the value of each converted frequency domain parameter ˜?[i] (i=1, 2, . . . , p) in a converted frequency domain parameter sequence ˜?[1], ˜?[2], . . . , ˜?[p] using the frequency domain parameter sequence ?[1], c[2], . . .Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicants: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, The University of TokyoInventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada, Hirokazu Kameoka, Ryosuke Sugiura
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Patent number: 10553229Abstract: A technology of accurately coding and decoding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients even for a frame in which the spectrum variation is great while suppressing an increase in the code amount as a whole is provided. A coding device includes: a first coding unit that obtains a first code by coding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of more than one order; and a second coding unit that obtains a second code by coding at least quantization errors of the first coding unit if (A-1) an index Q commensurate with how high the peak-to-valley height of a spectral envelope is, the spectral envelope corresponding to the coefficients which are convertible into the linear prediction coefficients of more than one order, is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1 and/or (B-1) an index Q? commensurate with how short the peak-to-valley height of the spectral envelope is, is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1?.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada
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Patent number: 10529350Abstract: A technology of accurately coding and decoding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients even for a frame in which the spectrum variation is great while suppressing an increase in the code amount as a whole is provided. A coding device includes: a first coding unit that obtains a first code by coding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of more than one order; and a second coding unit that obtains a second code by coding at least quantization errors of the first coding unit if (A-1) an index Q commensurate with how high the peak-to-valley height of a spectral envelope is, the spectral envelope corresponding to the coefficients which are convertible into the linear prediction coefficients of more than one order, is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1 and/or (B-1) an index Q? commensurate with how short the peak-to-valley height of the spectral envelope is, is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1?.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada
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Patent number: 10515643Abstract: In encoding, a frequency-domain sample sequence derived from an acoustic signal is divided by a weighted envelope and is then divided by a gain, the result obtained is quantized, and each sample is variable-length encoded. The error between the sample before quantization and the sample after quantization is quantized with information saved in this variable-length encoding. This quantization is performed under a rule that specifies, according to the number of saved bits, samples whose errors are to be quantized. In decoding, variable-length codes in an input sequence of codes are decoded to obtain a frequency-domain sample sequence; an error signal is further decoded under a rule that depends on the number of bits of the variable-length codes; and from the obtained sample sequence, the original sample sequence is obtained according to supplementary information.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro Moriya, Noboru Harada, Yutaka Kamamoto, Yusuke Hiwasaki, Masahiro Fukui
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Patent number: 10504533Abstract: The present invention reduces encoding distortion in frequency domain encoding compared to conventional techniques, and obtains LSP parameters that correspond to quantized LSP parameters for the preceding frame and are to be used in time domain encoding from coefficients equivalent to linear prediction coefficients resulting from frequency domain encoding. When p is an integer equal to or greater than 1, a linear prediction coefficient sequence which is obtained by linear prediction analysis of audio signals in a predetermined time segment is represented as a[1], a[2], . . . , a[p], and ?[1], ?[2], . . . , ?[p] are a frequency domain parameter sequence derived from the linear prediction coefficient sequence a[1], a[2], . . . , a[p], an LSP linear transformation unit (300) determines the value of each converted frequency domain parameter {tilde over (?)}?[i] (i=1, 2, . . . , p) in a converted frequency domain parameter sequence {tilde over (?)}w[1], {tilde over (?)}w[2], . . .Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignees: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, The University of TokyoInventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada, Hirokazu Kameoka, Ryosuke Sugiura
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Publication number: 20190355369Abstract: A coding method and a decoding method are provided which can use in combination a predictive coding and decoding method which is a coding and decoding method that can accurately express coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients with a small code amount and a coding and decoding method that can obtain correctly, by decoding, coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of the present frame if a linear prediction coefficient code of the present frame is correctly input to a decoding device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takehiro MORIYA, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada
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Publication number: 20190304476Abstract: A technology of accurately coding and decoding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients even for a frame in which the spectrum variation is great while suppressing an increase in the code amount as a whole is provided. A coding device includes: a first coding unit that obtains a first code by coding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of more than one order; and a second coding unit that obtains a second code by coding at least quantization errors of the first coding unit if (A-1) an index Q commensurate with how high the peak-to-valley height of a spectral envelope is, the spectral envelope corresponding to the coefficients which are convertible into the linear prediction coefficients of more than one order, is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1 and/or (B-1) an index Q? commensurate with how short the peak-to-valley height of the spectral envelope is, is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1?.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takehiro MORIYA, Yutaka KAMAMOTO, Noboru HARADA
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Publication number: 20190287545Abstract: A technology of accurately coding and decoding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients even for a frame in which the spectrum variation is great while suppressing an increase in the code amount as a whole is provided. A coding device includes: a first coding unit that obtains a first code by coding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of more than one order; and a second coding unit that obtains a second code by coding at least quantization errors of the first coding unit if (A-1) an index Q commensurate with how high the peak-to-valley height of a spectral envelope is, the spectral envelope corresponding to the coefficients which are convertible into the linear prediction coefficients of more than one order, is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1 and/or (B-1) an index Q? commensurate with how short the peak-to-valley height of the spectral envelope is, is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1'.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takehiro MORIYA, Yutaka KAMAMOTO, Noboru HARADA
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Patent number: 10418042Abstract: A coding method and a decoding method are provided which can use in combination a predictive coding and decoding method which is a coding and decoding method that can accurately express coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients with a small code amount and a coding and decoding method that can obtain correctly, by decoding, coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of the present frame if a linear prediction coefficient code of the present frame is correctly input to a decoding device.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada
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Publication number: 20190259403Abstract: The present invention reduces encoding distortion in frequency domain encoding compared to conventional techniques, and obtains LSP parameters that correspond to quantized LSP parameters for the preceding frame and are to be used in time domain encoding from coefficients equivalent to linear prediction coefficients resulting from frequency domain encoding. When p is an integer equal to or greater than 1, a linear prediction coefficient sequence which is obtained by linear prediction analysis of audio signals in a predetermined time segment is represented as a[1], a[2], . . . , a[p], and ?[1], ?[2], . . . , ?[p] are a frequency domain parameter sequence derived from the linear prediction coefficient sequence a[1], a[2], . . . , a[p], an LSP linear transformation unit (300) determines the value of each converted frequency domain parameter ˜?[i] (i=1, 2, . . . , p) in a converted frequency domain parameter sequence ˜?[1], ˜?[2], . . . , ˜?[p] using the frequency domain parameter sequence ?[1], ?[2], . . .Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicants: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, The University of TokyoInventors: Takehiro MORIYA, Yutaka KAMAMOTO, Noboru HARADA, Hirokazu KAMEOKA, Ryosuke SUGIURA
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Patent number: 10381015Abstract: A technology of accurately coding and decoding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients even for a frame in which the spectrum variation is great while suppressing an increase in the code amount as a whole is provided. A coding device includes: a first coding unit that obtains a first code by coding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of more than one order; and a second coding unit that obtains a second code by coding at least quantization errors of the first coding unit if (A-1) an index Q commensurate with how high the peak-to-valley height of a spectral envelope is, the spectral envelope corresponding to the coefficients which are convertible into the linear prediction coefficients of more than one order, is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1 and/or (B-1) an index Q? commensurate with how short the peak-to-valley height of the spectral envelope is, is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1?.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada