Abstract: This invention relates to compression of prediction error in motion compensated video coding schemes. Prediction frame and motion vectors are used to extract useful information about the properties of the prediction error signal, e.g. its location, directionality, etc. This information does not need to be transmitted because the decoder of the proposed system includes means to extract this information. Information extracted by the encoder and decoder is used to adapt prediction error coding scheme which gives substantial bitrate reductions.

Abstract: This invention relates to compression of prediction error in motion compensated video coding schemes. Prediction frame and motion vectors are used to extract useful information about the properties of the prediction error signal, e.g. its location, directionality, etc. This information does not need to be transmitted because the decoder of the proposed system includes means to extract this information. Information extracted by the encoder and decoder is used to adapt prediction error coding scheme which gives substantial bitrate reductions.

Abstract: This invention relates to compression of prediction error in motion compensated video coding schemes. Prediction frame and motion vectors are used to extract useful information about the properties of the prediction error signal, e.g. its location, directionality, etc. This information does not need to be transmitted because the decoder of the proposed system includes means to extract this information. Information extracted by the encoder and decoder is used to adapt prediction error coding scheme which gives substantial bitrate reductions.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for implementing the method, which allow a transmitter (100) of a digital telecommunication system transmitting speech to transmit predetermined messages to a receiver (102) over a speech channel (108). Messages (114) are transmitted from the transmitter (100) to the receiver (102) on the speech channel (108) in such a way that they are encoded in some of the speech coding bits, whereby the speech coding bits selected for message transmission have been selected in such a way that they affect the quality of speech as little as possible. Most preferably, the speech coding bits used for transmitting messages are protected by channel coding (702, 704). Speech coding bits are “stolen” for message transmission only for very short periods at a time and only for exactly the time it takes to transmit the messages (114); at other times, the entire speech channel (108) is used normally for speech transmission.

Abstract: A method of speech coding a sampled speech signal using long term prediction (LTP). A LTP pitch-lag parameter is determined for each frame of the speech signal by first determining the autocorrelation function for the frame within the signal, between predefined maximum and minimum delays. The autocorrelation function is then weighted to emphasize the function for delays in the neighborhood of the pitch-lag parameter determined for the most recent voiced frame. The maximum value for the weighted autocorrelation function is then found and identified as the pitch-lag parameter for the frame.

Abstract: An encoder encodes digital signals representative of data by classifying the digital signals into first and second classes indicative of their influence on data quality and subjects them to error detection encoding capable of generating at least two error detection codes which respectively correspond to the first and second classes. A decoder receives the encoded digital signals classified into first and second digital signal classes, decodes the error detection codes, and generates error signals, corresponding to the respective digital signal classes, from which the quality of the received digital signals is estimated and the utility of the received digital signals is determined.

Abstract: A codec is introduced, according to a new speech encoding method, into a speech transmitting transceiver of a digital telecommunications system in order to use a "new" codec and an "old" codec in parallel in the system. A codec is selected by implementing a handshaking procedure between transceivers, handshaking, where a speech encoding method implemented in all transceivers and previously used in the telecommunications system concerned, is used at the beginning of each connection. At the beginning of a phone call and after handover, the method checks whether both parties can also use the new speech encoding. The handshaking messages have been selected so that their effect on the quality of speech is minimal, and yet so that the probability of identifying the messages is maximal.

Abstract: A method for selecting a telephone number by means of voice control, the telephone numbers which can be selected are stored, and for each telephone number which can be selected at least one identifier, such as a name is stored. In the storing phase, the identifier is pronounced and divided into one or several sub-identifiers, which are stored, and to which information on the telephone number is linked, wherein the telephone number mentioned in the selecting phase can be dialed either by pronouncing said sub-identifiers in any order according to a combination or partial combination of the sub-identifiers.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for speech transmission in a telecommunications system in which a speech signal is compressed to a small number of speech coding bits by a speech coding method, and the speech coding bits are subjected to channel coding. Several different speech coding methods, which may all operate at different transmission rates, are involved in the speech transmission. The method is based on the use of two-stage channel coding. The first channel coding is dependent on the speech coding method, and it is performed in connection with the speech coding in such a manner that the total transmission rate provided by the speech coding and the first channel coding is always constant irrespective of the speech coding method. The second channel coding performed thereafter is always exactly the same regardless of the speech coding method and the first channel coding method, and it is used with all speech coding methods.