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).

  • Patent number: 11869514
    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: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Goran Markovic, Ralph Sperschneider, Jérémie Lecomte, Christian Helmrich
  • Patent number: 11776551
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Markovic Goran, Ralph Sperschneider, Jérémie Lecomte, Christian Helmrich
  • Publication number: 20230230606
    Abstract: An audio transmitter processor for generating an error protected frame using encoded audio data of an audio frame, the encoded audio data for the audio frame having a first amount of information units and a second amount of information units, has: a frame builder for building a codeword frame having a codeword raster, wherein the frame builder is configured to determine a border between a first amount of information units and a second amount of information units so that a starting information unit of the second amount of information units coincides with a codeword border; and an error protection coder to obtain a plurality of processed codewords representing the error protected frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Adrian TOMASEK, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jan BÜTHE, Alexander TSCHEKALINSKIJ, Manfred LUTZKY
  • Patent number: 11501783
    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: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Goran Markovic, Ralph Sperschneider, Jérémie Lecomte, Christian Helmrich
  • Patent number: 11462221
    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: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Goran Markovic, Ralph Sperschneider, Jérémie Lecomte, Christian Helmrich
  • Patent number: 11423913
    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: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Jérémie Lecomte, Ralph Sperschneider, Manuel Jander
  • Patent number: 11393479
    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: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Jérémie Lecomte, Ralph Sperschneider, Manuel Jander
  • Patent number: 11367453
    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: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Jérémie Lecomte, Ralph Sperschneider, Manuel Jander
  • Patent number: 11315580
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Adrian Tomasek, Emmanuel Ravelli, Markus Schnell, Alexander Tschekalinskij, Michael Schnabel, Ralph Sperschneider
  • Patent number: 11282529
    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: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventors: Janine Sukowski, Ralph Sperschneider, Goran Markovic, Wolfgang Jaegers, Christian Helmrich, Bernd Edler, Ralf Geiger
  • Publication number: 20220014310
    Abstract: A decoder for decoding a frame to reconstruct a signal portion of a signal is provided. The signal portion is encoded within the frame, wherein the frame includes a bitstream payload and two or more redundancy bits, wherein the bitstream payload includes a plurality of payload bits, wherein each of the payload bits exhibits a position within the bitstream payload. The decoder includes a channel decoding module, being configured to detect, depending on the two or more redundancy bits, whether the bitstream payload includes one or more corrupted bits being one or more of the payload bits that are distorted or that are likely to be distorted. Moreover, the decoder includes a source decoding module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Adrian TOMASEK, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jan BUETHE, Conrad BENNDORF, Martin DIETZ, Markus SCHNELL, Maximilian SCHLEGEL
  • Publication number: 20210375295
    Abstract: An audio transmitter processor for generating an error protected frame using encoded audio data of an audio frame, the encoded audio data for the audio frame having a first amount of information units and a second amount of information units, has: a frame builder for building a codeword frame having a codeword raster, wherein the frame builder is configured to determine a border between a first amount of information units and a second amount of information units so that a starting information unit of the second amount of information units coincides with a codeword border; and an error protection coder to obtain a plurality of processed codewords representing the error protected frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Adrian TOMASEK, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jan BÜTHE, Alexander TSCHEKALINSKIJ, Manfred LUTZKY
  • Publication number: 20210366498
    Abstract: FIG. 1 illustrates a decoder for decoding a current frame to reconstruct an audio signal according to an embodiment. The audio signal is encoded within the current frame. The current frame includes a current bitstream payload. The current bitstream payload includes a plurality of payload bits. The plurality of payload bits encodes a plurality of spectral lines of a spectrum of the audio signal. Each of the payload bits exhibits a position within the current bitstream payload. The decoder includes a decoding module and an output interface. The decoding module is configured to reconstruct the audio signal. The output interface is configured to output the audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Adrian TOMASEK, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jan BÜTHE, Conrad BENNDORF, Martin DIETZ, Markus SCHNELL, Maximilian SCHLEGEL
  • Publication number: 20210142809
    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: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Goran MARKOVIC, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jérémie LECOMTE, Christian HELMRICH
  • Publication number: 20210098003
    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 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Markovic GORAN, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jérémie LECOMTE, Christian HELMRICH
  • Patent number: 10867613
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Markovic Goran, Ralph Sperschneider, Jérémie Lecomte, Christian Helmrich
  • Patent number: 10854208
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Schnabel, Goran Markovic, Ralph Sperschneider, Jérémie Lecomte, Christian Helmrich
  • Publication number: 20200342882
    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: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Jérémie LECOMTE, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Manuel JANDER
  • Publication number: 20200312338
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Goran MARKOVIC, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Jérémie LECOMTE, Christian HELMRICH
  • Publication number: 20200294511
    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: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Michael SCHNABEL, Jérémie LECOMTE, Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER, Manuel JANDER