Patents by Inventor Venkatraman S. Atti

Venkatraman S. Atti 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: 20150380006
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for adjusting a temporal gain parameter and for adjusting linear prediction coefficients. A value of the temporal gain parameter may be based on a comparison of a synthesized high-band portion of an audio signal to a high-band portion of the audio signal. If a signal characteristic of an upper frequency range of the high-band portion satisfies a first threshold, the temporal gain parameter may be adjusted. A linear prediction (LP) gain may be determined based on an LP gain operation that uses a first value for an LP order. The LP gain may be associated with an energy level of an LP synthesis filter. The LP order may be reduced if the LP gain satisfies a second threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Venkatraman S. Atti, Venkatesh Krishnan, Vivek Rajendran, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha
  • Publication number: 20150279382
    Abstract: A particular method includes encoding a first frame of an audio signal using a first encoder. The method also includes generating, during encoding of the first frame, a baseband signal that includes content corresponding to a high band portion of the audio signal. The method further includes encoding a second frame of the audio signal using a second encoder, where encoding the second frame includes processing the baseband signal to generate high band parameters associated with the second frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Venkatraman S. Atti, Venkatesh Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20150279384
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a vocoder, an audio signal sampled at a first sample rate. The method also includes generating, at a low-band encoder of the vocoder, a low-band excitation signal based on a low-band portion of the audio signal. The method further includes generating a first baseband signal at a high-band encoder of the vocoder. Generating the first baseband signal includes performing a spectral flip operation on a nonlinearly transformed version of the low-band excitation signal. The first baseband signal corresponds to a first sub-band of a high-band portion of the audio signal. The method also includes generating a second baseband signal corresponding to a second sub-band of the high-band portion of the audio signal. The first sub-band is distinct from the second sub-band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Venkatraman S. Atti, Venkatesh Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20150228288
    Abstract: A method includes separating, at a device, an input audio signal into at least a low-band signal and a high-band signal. The low-band signal corresponds to a low-band frequency range and the high-band signal corresponds to a high-band frequency range. The method also includes selecting a non-linear processing function of a plurality of non-linear processing functions. The method further includes generating a first extended signal based on the low-band signal and the non-linear processing function. The method also includes generating at least one adjustment parameter based on the first extended signal, the high-band signal, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, Venkatesh Krishnan, Venkatraman S. Atti, Vivek Rajendran
  • Publication number: 20150170662
    Abstract: A method includes filtering, at a speech encoder, an audio signal into a first group of sub-bands within a first frequency range and a second group of sub-bands within a second frequency range. The method also includes generating a harmonically extended signal based on the first group of sub-bands. The method further includes generating a third group of sub-bands based, at least in part, on the harmonically extended signal. The third group of sub-bands corresponds to the second group of sub-bands. The method also includes determining a first adjustment parameter for a first sub-band in the third group of sub-bands or a second adjustment parameter for a second sub-band in the third group of sub-bands. The first adjustment parameter is based on a metric of a first sub-band in the second group of sub-bands, and the second adjustment parameter is based on a metric of a second sub-band in the second group of sub-bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Venkatesh Krishnan, Venkatraman S. Atti
  • Publication number: 20150149156
    Abstract: A method includes determining, at an encoder, phase adjustment parameters based on a high-band residual signal. The method also includes inserting the phase adjustment parameters into an encoded version of the audio signal to enable phase adjustment during reconstruction of the audio signal from the encoded version of the audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Venkatraman S. Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam
  • Publication number: 20150149157
    Abstract: A method includes determining, at a speech encoder, frequency domain gain shape parameters. The frequency domain gain shape parameters are based on a second signal associated with an audio signal. The method further includes adjusting a first signal based on the frequency domain gain shape parameters. The first signal is associated with the audio signal. The method also includes inserting the frequency domain gain shape parameters into an encoded version of the audio signal to enable gain adjustment during reproduction of the audio signal from the encoded version of the audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Venkatraman S. Atti, Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Venkatesh Krishnan, Stephane Pierre Villette
  • Publication number: 20150106107
    Abstract: A method includes determining a first modeled high-band signal based on a low-band excitation signal of an audio signal, where the audio signal includes a high-band portion and a low-band portion. The method also includes determining scaling factors based on energy of sub-frames of the first modeled high-band signal and energy of corresponding sub-frames of the high-band portion of the audio signal. The method includes applying the scaling factors to a modeled high-band excitation signal to determine a scaled high-band excitation signal and determining a second modeled high-band signal based on the scaled high-band excitation signal. The method includes determining gain parameters based on the second modeled high-band signal and the high-band portion of the audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Venkatraman S. Atti, Venkatesh Krishnan, Stephane Pierre Villette, Vivek Rajendran
  • Publication number: 20150106106
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a second audio frame at a decoder. The second audio frame follows a first audio frame in an audio signal and includes a first number of bits allocated to primary coding information associated with the second audio frame, a second number of bits allocated to redundant coding information associated with the first audio frame, and an indicator of a frame type of the first audio frame. In response to a frame erasure condition associated with the first audio frame, the second number of bits is determined based on the indicator and used to decode the first audio frame. In clean channel conditions, the first audio frame is received and decoded based on primary coding bits in the first audio frame, and the first number of bits is determined based on the indicator and used to decode the second audio frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Venkatraman S. Atti, Vivek Rajendran, Venkatesh Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20150106102
    Abstract: A method includes determining, at a speech encoder, first gain shape parameters based on a harmonically extended signal and/or based on a high-band residual signal associated with a high-band portion of an audio signal. The method also includes determining second gain shape parameters based on a synthesized high-band signal and based on the high-band portion of the audio signal. The method further includes inserting the first gain parameters and the second gain shape parameters into an encoded version of the audio signal to enable gain adjustment during reproduction of the audio signal from the encoded version of the audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Venkatraman S. Atti
  • Publication number: 20150106084
    Abstract: A method includes generating a high-band residual signal based on a high-band portion of an audio signal. The method also includes generating a harmonically extended signal at least partially based on a low-band portion of the audio signal. The method further includes determining a mixing factor based on the high-band residual signal, the harmonically extended signal, and modulated noise. The modulated noise is at least partially based on the harmonically extended signal and white noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Venkatraman S. Atti, Venkatesh Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20140214413
    Abstract: A method of processing an audio signal includes determining an average signal-to-noise ratio for the audio signal over time. The method includes, based on the determined average signal-to-noise ratio, a formant-sharpening factor is determined. The method also includes applying a filter that is based on the determined formant-sharpening factor to a codebook vector that is based on information from the audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Venkatraman S. Atti, Vivek Rajendran, Venkatesh Krishnan