Patents by Inventor Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam
Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam 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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Patent number: 10210871Abstract: A device includes a processor and a transmitter. The processor is configured to determine a first mismatch value indicative of a first amount of a temporal mismatch between a first audio signal and a second audio signal. The processor is also configured to determine a second mismatch value indicative of a second amount of a temporal mismatch between the first audio signal and the second audio signal. The processor is further configured to determine an effective mismatch value based on the first mismatch value and the second mismatch value. The processor is also configured to generate at least one encoded signal having a bit allocation. The bit allocation is at least partially based on the effective mismatch value. The transmitter configured to transmit the at least one encoded signal to a second device.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Venkatraman Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Daniel Jared Sinder
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Patent number: 10210874Abstract: A method includes generating a windowed time-domain mid channel by applying two first asymmetric windows to a first frame of a time-domain mid channel and applying two second asymmetric windows to a second frame of the time-domain mid channel. The method includes transforming the windowed time-domain mid channel to a transform domain to generate sets of transform-domain mid channel data including first transform-domain mid channel data corresponding to a first mid channel window of the first frame and second transform-domain mid channel data corresponding to a second mid channel window of the first frame. The method includes performing an up-mix operation using the sets of transform-domain mid channel data, stereo parameters from the bit stream, and an interpolated parameter determined using an unevenly weighted interpolation between a first stereo parameter value associated with the first frame and a second stereo parameter value associated with the second frame.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Venkatraman Atti
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Patent number: 10204629Abstract: A device includes a processor and a transmitter. The processor is configured to determine a first value and a second value indicative of a first amount and a second amount, respectively, of a temporal mismatch between a first audio signal and a second audio signal. The processor is also configured to determine an effective value based on the first value and the second value, to select, based on the effective value, a first coding mode and a second coding mode, and to generate at least one encoded signal having a bit allocation. The at least one encoded signal is based on a first encoded signal and a second encoded signal that are based on the first coding mode and the second coding mode, respectively. The bit allocation is at least partially based on the effective mismatch value. The transmitter is configured to transmit the at least one encoded signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Venkatraman Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Daniel Jared Sinder
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Publication number: 20190035409Abstract: A device includes an encoder configured to determine, during a first period, that a first audio signal is a leading signal and that a second audio signal is a lagging signal. The encoder is also configured to generate a first frame of at least one encoded signal based on a first modified version of the second audio signal that is generated by adjusting the second audio signal based on a first mismatch value. The encoder is configured to determine, during a second period, that the first audio signal is the leading signal and that the second audio signal is the lagging signal. The encoder is configured to generate a second frame of the at least one encoded signal based on a second modified version of the second audio signal that is generated by adjusting the second audio signal based on the first mismatch value and a second mismatch value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Venkatraman ATTI, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar CHEBIYYAM, Daniel Jared Sinder
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Publication number: 20190013028Abstract: A method includes receiving, at an audio encoder, multiple streams of audio data. The method includes assigning a priority to each stream of the multiple streams and determining, based on the priority of each stream of the multiple streams, a permutation sequence for encoding of the multiple streams. The method also includes encoding at least a portion of each stream of the multiple streams according to the permutation sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Venkatraman ATTI, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar CHEBIYYAM, Daniel Jared SINDER
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Publication number: 20190013030Abstract: A device includes an encoder and a transmitter. The encoder is configured to generate a first high-band portion of a mid signal based on a left signal and a right signal, to generate a first synthesized signal based on a first gain and linear predictive coefficient (LPC) parameters, and to generate a second synthesized signal based at least in part on a second gain and the LPC parameters. The encoder is also configured to generate a set of first gain parameters based on a comparison of the first synthesized signal and the mid signal, and to generate a set of adjustment gain parameters based on the second synthesized signal and a high-band non-reference signal. The transmitter is configured to transmit information corresponding to the first high-band portion of the mid signal. The transmitter is also configured to transmit the set of adjustment gain parameters corresponding to the high-band non-reference signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Venkatraman Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar CHEBIYYAM
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Publication number: 20190005973Abstract: A method includes decoding a low-band portion of an encoded mid signal to generate a decoded low-band mid signal. The method also includes processing the decoded low-band mid signal to generate a low-band residual prediction signal and generating a low-band left channel and a low-band right channel based partially on the decoded low-band mid signal and the low-band residual prediction signal. The method further includes decoding a high-band portion of the encoded mid signal to generate a time-domain decoded high-band mid signal and processing the time-domain decoded high-band mid signal to generate a time-domain high-band residual prediction signal. The method also includes generating a high-band left channel and a high-band right channel based on the time-domain decoded high-band mid signal and the time-domain high-band residual prediction signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Venkatraman ATTI, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar CHEBIYYAM
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Publication number: 20190005970Abstract: A method includes decoding a low-band portion of an encoded mid channel to generate a decoded low-band mid channel. The method also includes filtering the decoded low-band mid channel according to one or more filter coefficients to generate a low-band filtered mid channel. The method also includes generating an inter-channel predicted signal based on the low-band filtered mid channel and the inter-channel prediction gain. The method further includes generating a low-band left channel and a low-band right channel based on an up-mix factor, the decoded low-band mid channel, and the inter-channel predicted signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Venkatraman ATTI, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar CHEBIYYAM, Daniel Jared SINDER
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Patent number: 10157621Abstract: An apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive at least one encoded signal that includes inter-channel bandwidth extension (BWE) parameters. The device also includes a decoder configured to generate a mid channel time-domain high-band signal by performing bandwidth extension based on the at least one encoded signal. The decoder is also configured to generate, based on the mid channel time-domain high-band signal and the inter-channel BWE parameters, a first channel time-domain high-band signal and a second channel time-domain high-band signal. The decoder is further configured to generate a target channel signal by combining the first channel time-domain high-band signal and a first channel low-band signal, and to generate a reference channel signal by combining the second channel time-domain high-band signal and a second channel low-band signal. The decoder is also configured to generate a modified target channel signal by modifying the target channel signal based on a temporal mismatch value.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Venkatraman Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam
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Patent number: 10152977Abstract: A device includes an encoder. The encoder is configured to receive two audio channels. The encoder is also configured to determine a mismatch value indicative of an amount of a temporal mismatch between the two audio channels. The encoder is further configured to determine, based on the mismatch value, at least one of a target channel or a reference channel. The target channel corresponds to a lagging audio channel of the two audio channels and the reference channel corresponds to a leading audio channel of the two audio channels. The encoder is also configured to generate a modified target channel by adjusting the target channel based on the offset value. The encoder is further configured to generate at least one encoded channel based on the reference channel and the modified target channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Venkatraman Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Daniel Jared Sinder
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Publication number: 20180342255Abstract: A device includes a receiver configured to receive an audio frame of an audio stream. The audio frame includes information that indicates a coded bandwidth of the audio frame. The device also includes a decoder configured to generate first decoded speech associated with the audio frame and to determine an output mode of the decoder based at least in part on the information that indicates the coded bandwidth. A bandwidth mode indicated by the output mode of the decoder is different than a bandwidth mode indicated by the information that indicates the coded bandwidth. The decoder is further configured to output second decoded speech based on the first decoded speech. The second decoded speech is generated according to an output mode of the decoder.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Venkatraman S. Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Vivek Rajendran
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Publication number: 20180336907Abstract: A device includes a processor and a transmitter. The processor is configured to determine a first value and a second value indicative of a first amount and a second amount, respectively, of a temporal mismatch between a first audio signal and a second audio signal. The processor is also configured to determine an effective value based on the first value and the second value, to select, based on the effective value, a first coding mode and a second coding mode, and to generate at least one encoded signal having a bit allocation. The at least one encoded signal is based on a first encoded signal and a second encoded signal that are based on the first coding mode and the second coding mode, respectively. The bit allocation is at least partially based on the effective mismatch value. The transmitter is configured to transmit the at least one encoded signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Venkatraman Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Daniel Jared Sinder
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Publication number: 20180330739Abstract: An apparatus includes a receiver and a decoder. The receiver is configured to receive a bitstream that includes an encoded mid channel and a quantized value representing a shift between a reference channel associated with an encoder and a target channel associated with the encoder. The quantized value is based on a value of the shift. The value of the shift is associated with the encoder and has a greater precision than the quantized value. The decoder is configured to decode the encoded mid channel to generate a decoded mid channel and to generate a first channel based on the decoded mid channel. The decoder is further configured to generate a second channel based on the decoded mid channel and the quantized value. The first channel corresponds to the reference channel and the second channel corresponds to the target channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar CHEBIYYAM, Venkatraman ATTI
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Patent number: 10115403Abstract: A device includes a processor, a memory, and a combiner. The processor is configured to receive a first combined frame and a second combined frame corresponding to a multi-channel audio signal. The memory is configured to store first lookahead portion data of the first combined frame. The first lookahead portion data is received from the processor. The combiner is configured to generate a frame at a multi-channel encoder. The frame includes a subset of samples of the first lookahead portion data, one or more samples of updated sample data corresponding to the first combined frame, and a group of samples of second combined frame data corresponding to the second combined frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Venkatraman Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam
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Publication number: 20180308505Abstract: A device includes a multi-channel encoder configured to receive a first audio signal and a second audio signal, to perform a downmix operation on the first audio signal and the second audio signal to generate a mid signal, to generate a low-band mid signal and a high-band mid signal based on the mid signal, and to determine, based at least partially on a low band voicing value corresponding to the low band signal and a gain value corresponding to the high-band mid signal, a value of a multi-source flag that flag associated with the high-band mid signal. The multi-channel encoder is configured to generate a high-band mid excitation signal based on the multi-source flag and to generate a bitstream based on the high-band mid excitation signal. The device also includes a transmitter configured to transmit the bitstream and the multi-source flag to a second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar CHEBIYYAM, Venkatraman ATTI
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Patent number: 10109284Abstract: A device includes an encoder and a transmitter. The encoder is configured to generate a first high-band portion of a first signal based on a left signal and a right signal. The encoder is also configured to generate a set of adjustment gain parameters based on a high-band non-reference signal. The high-band non-reference signal corresponds to one of a left high-band portion of the left signal or a right high-band portion of the right signal as a high-band non-reference signal. The transmitter is configured to transmit information corresponding to the first high-band portion of the first signal. The transmitter is also configured to transmit the set of adjustment gain parameters corresponding to the high-band non-reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Venkatraman Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam
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Publication number: 20180293992Abstract: A method includes decoding a low-band mid channel bitstream to generate a low-band mid signal and a low-band mid excitation signal. The method further includes decoding a high-band mid channel bandwidth extension bitstream to generate a synthesized high-band mid signal. The method also includes determining an inter-channel bandwidth extension (ICBWE) gain mapping parameter corresponding to the synthesized high-band mid signal. The ICBWE gain mapping parameter is based on a selected frequency-domain gain parameter that is extracted from a stereo downmix/upmix parameter bitstream. The method further includes performing a gain scaling operation on the synthesized high-band mid signal based on the ICBWE gain mapping parameter to generate a reference high-band channel and a target high-band channel. The method includes outputting a first audio channel and a second audio channel. The first audio channel is based on the reference high-band channel, and the second audio channel is based on target high-band channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar CHEBIYYAM, Venkatraman ATTI
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Publication number: 20180268828Abstract: A method of encoding audio channels includes receiving two or more channels at an encoder and identifying a target channel and a reference channel. The target channel and the reference channel are identified from the two or more channels based on a mismatch value. The method also includes generating a modified target channel by temporally adjusting the target channel based on the mismatch value. The mismatch value is indicative of an amount of temporal mismatch between the target channel and the reference channel. The method also includes determining a temporal correlation value indicative of a temporal correlation between a first signal associated with the reference channel and a second signal associated with the modified target channel. The method also includes comparing the temporal correlation value to a threshold. The method further includes generating missing target samples based on the comparison, a coder type, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Venkatraman ATTI, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar CHEBIYYAM
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Publication number: 20180261232Abstract: A method includes selecting, at an encoder of a first device, a left channel or a right channel as a non-reference target channel based on a high-band reference channel indicator. The method also includes generating a synthesized non-reference high-band channel based on a non-reference high-band excitation corresponding to the non-reference target channel. The method also includes generating a high-band portion of the non-reference target channel. The method further includes estimating one or more spectral mapping parameters based on the synthesized non-reference high-band channel and the high-band portion of the non-reference target channel. The method also includes applying the one or more spectral mapping parameters to the synthesized non-reference high-band channel to generate a spectrally shaped synthesized non-reference high-band channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar CHEBIYYAM, Venkatraman ATTI
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Patent number: 10074373Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes receiving, at a first device, a reference channel and a target channel. The reference channel includes a set of reference samples, and target channel includes a set of target samples. The method also includes determining a variation between a first mismatch value and a second mismatch value. The method also includes adjusting the set of target samples based on the variation to generate an adjusted set of target samples. The method further includes generating at least one encoded channel based on the set of reference samples and the adjusted set of target samples. The method also includes transmitting the at least one encoded channel to a second device.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Venkatraman Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Daniel Jared Sinder