Patents by Inventor Yutaka Kamamoto

Yutaka Kamamoto 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: 20190115036
    Abstract: An envelope sequence is provided that can improve approximation accuracy near peaks caused by the pitch period of an audio signal. A periodic-combined-envelope-sequence generation device according to the present invention takes, as an input audio signal, a time-domain audio digital signal in each frame, which is a predetermined time segment, and generates a periodic combined envelope sequence as an envelope sequence. The periodic-combined-envelope-sequence generation device according to the present invention comprises at least a spectral-envelope-sequence calculating part and a periodic-combined-envelope generating part. The spectral-envelope-sequence calculating part calculates a spectral envelope sequence of the input audio signal on the basis of time-domain linear prediction of the input audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro MORIYA, Yutaka KAMAMOTO, Noboru HARADA
  • Publication number: 20190096414
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiro MORIYA, Yutaka KAMAMOTO, Noboru Harada
  • Publication number: 20190096413
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiro MORIYA, Yutaka KAMAMOTO, Noboru HARADA
  • Patent number: 10224049
    Abstract: An encoding apparatus is an encoding apparatus for encoding a time-series signal for each of predetermined time sections in a frequency domain, wherein a parameter ? is a positive number, the parameter ? corresponding to a time-series signal is a shape parameter of generalized Gaussian distribution that approximates a histogram of a whitened spectral sequence, which is a sequence obtained by dividing a frequency domain sample sequence corresponding to the time-series signal by a spectral envelope estimated by regarding the ?-th power of absolute values of the frequency domain sample sequence as a power spectrum, and any of a plurality of parameters ? is selective or the parameter ? is variable for each of the predetermined time sections; and the encoding apparatus comprises an encoding portion encoding the time-series signal for each of the predetermined time sections by an encoding process with a configuration identified at least based on the parameter ? for each of the predetermined time sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignees: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada, Takahito Kawanishi, Hirokazu Kameoka, Ryosuke Sugiura
  • Patent number: 10211921
    Abstract: An optical communication system includes a signal processing apparatus and a wireless apparatus between which functions of a base station are divided, wherein a periodic symbol sequence including a cyclic prefix appended to a signal of a predetermined size to which an IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) has been applied is transmitted between the signal processing apparatus and the wireless apparatus by means of digital RoF (Radio over Fiber) transmission, the signal processing apparatus and the wireless apparatus each include a transmission unit and a reception unit, the transmission unit includes: a first separation unit that acquires symbol information relating to a starting position of the symbol sequence and lengths of symbols constituting the symbol sequence, and that equalizes the lengths of the symbols by separating a portion of the symbol sequence based on the acquired symbol information; and a compression unit that compresses symbols that are to be compressed from which the separated portion of th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotaka Shibata, Shigeru Kuwano, Yutaka Kamamoto, Takehiro Moriya, Jun Terada
  • Patent number: 10204633
    Abstract: An envelope sequence is provided that can improve approximation accuracy near peaks caused by the pitch period of an audio signal. A periodic-combined-envelope-sequence generation device according to the present invention takes, as an input audio signal, a time-domain audio digital signal in each frame, which is a predetermined time segment, and generates a periodic combined envelope sequence as an envelope sequence. The periodic-combined-envelope-sequence generation device according to the present invention comprises at least a spectral-envelope-sequence calculating part and a periodic-combined-envelope generating part. The spectral-envelope-sequence calculating part calculates a spectral envelope sequence of the input audio signal on the basis of time-domain linear prediction of the input audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada
  • Patent number: 10199046
    Abstract: An encoder includes 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 includes a periodic-combined-envelope generating part and a variable-length decoding 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 and on a frequency-domain period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada
  • Patent number: 10170130
    Abstract: An autocorrelation calculating part calculates autocorrelation Ro(i) from an input signal. A predictive coefficient calculating part performs linear predictive analysis using modified autocorrelation R?o(i) obtained by multiplying the autocorrelation Ro(i) by a coefficient wo(i). Here, a case is comprised where, for at least part of each order i, the coefficient wo(i) corresponding to each order i monotonically decreases as a value having positive correlation with a pitch gain in an input signal of a current frame or a past frame increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Kamamoto, Takehiro Moriya, Noboru Harada
  • Patent number: 10163450
    Abstract: An autocorrelation calculating part calculates autocorrelation Ro(i) from an input signal. A predictive coefficient calculating part performs linear predictive analysis using modified autocorrelation. R?o(i) obtained by multiplying the autocorrelation Ro(i) by a coefficient wo(i). Here, a case is comprised where, for at least part of each order i, the coefficient wo(i) corresponding to each order i monotonically decreases as a value having positive correlation with a pitch gain in an input signal of a current frame or a past frame increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Kamamoto, Takehiro Moriya, Noboru Harada
  • Patent number: 10147443
    Abstract: A matching device includes a matching unit that judges, based on a first sequence of parameters ? corresponding to each of at least one time-series signal of a predetermined time length which makes up a first signal and a second sequence of the parameters ? corresponding to each of at least one time-series signal of the predetermined time length which makes up a second signal, the degree of match between the first signal and the second signal and/or whether or not the first signal and the second signal match with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignees: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Takehiro Moriya, Takahito Kawanishi, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada, Hirokazu Kameoka, Ryosuke Sugiura
  • Patent number: 10134419
    Abstract: An autocorrelation calculating part calculates autocorrelation Ro(i) from an input signal. A predictive coefficient calculating part performs linear predictive analysis using modified autocorrelation R?o(i) obtained by multiplying the autocorrelation Ro(i) by a coefficient wo(i). Here, it is assumed that a case where, for at least part of each order i, the coefficient wo(i) corresponding to each order i monotonically increases as a value having negative correlation with a fundamental frequency of an input signal in a current frame or a past frame increases and a case where the coefficient wo(i) monotonically decreases as a value having positive correlation with a pitch gain in a current frame or a past frame increases, are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Kamamoto, Takehiro Moriya, Noboru Harada
  • Patent number: 10134420
    Abstract: An autocorrelation calculating part calculates autocorrelation Ro(i) from an input signal. A predictive coefficient calculating part performs linear predictive analysis using modified autocorrelation R?o(i) obtained by multiplying the autocorrelation Ro(i) by a coefficient wo(i). Here, it is assumed that a case where, for at least part of each order i, the coefficient wo(i) corresponding to each order i monotonically increases as a value having negative correlation with a fundamental frequency of an input signal in a current frame or a past frame increases and a case where the coefficient wo(i) monotonically decreases as a value having positive correlation with a pitch gain in a current frame or a past frame increases, are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Kamamoto, Takehiro Moriya, Noboru Harada
  • Publication number: 20180330741
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiro MORIYA, Yutaka KAMAMOTO, Noboru HARADA
  • Patent number: 10115413
    Abstract: An autocorrelation calculating part calculates autocorrelation Ro(i) from an input signal. A predictive coefficient calculating part performs linear predictive analysis using modified autocorrelation R?o(i) obtained by multiplying the autocorrelation Ro(i) by a coefficient wo(i). Here, it is assumed that a case where, for at least part of each order i, the coefficient wo(i) corresponding to each order i monotonically increases as a value having negative correlation with a fundamental frequency of an input signal in a current frame or a past frame increases and a case where the coefficient wo(i) monotonically decreases as a value having positive correlation with a pitch gain in a current frame or a past frame increases, are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Kamamoto, Takehiro Moriya, Noboru Harada
  • Publication number: 20180294881
    Abstract: An optical communication system includes a signal processing apparatus and a wireless apparatus between which functions of a base station are divided, wherein a periodic symbol sequence including a cyclic prefix appended to a signal of a predetermined size to which an IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) has been applied is transmitted between the signal processing apparatus and the wireless apparatus by means of digital RoF (Radio over Fiber) transmission, the signal processing apparatus and the wireless apparatus each include a transmission unit and a reception unit, the transmission unit includes: a compression size determination unit that acquires symbol information relating to a starting position of the symbol sequence and lengths of symbols constituting the symbol sequence, and that determines, based on the acquired symbol information, a compression size for each of symbols that are to be compressed; and a compression unit that compresses the symbol sequence in units of determined compression sizes, an
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotaka SHIBATA, Shigeru KUWANO, Yutaka KAMAMOTO, Takehiro MORIYA, Jun TERADA
  • Patent number: 10096327
    Abstract: A frequency-domain sample interval corresponding to a time-domain pitch period L corresponding to a time-domain pitch period code of an audio signal in a given time period is obtained as a converted interval T1, a frequency-domain pitch period T is chosen from among candidates including the converted interval T1 and integer multiples U×T1 of the converted interval T1, and a frequency-domain pitch period code indicating how many times the frequency-domain pitch period T is greater than the converted interval T1 is obtained. The frequency-domain pitch period code is output so that a decoding side can identify the frequency-domain pitch period T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada, Yusuke Hiwasaki, Masahiro Fukui
  • Patent number: 10083703
    Abstract: A frequency-domain sample interval corresponding to a time-domain pitch period L corresponding to a time-domain pitch period code of an audio signal in a given time period is obtained as a converted interval T1, a frequency-domain pitch period T is chosen from among candidates including the converted interval T1 and integer multiples U×T1 of the converted interval T1, and a frequency-domain pitch period code indicating how many times the frequency-domain pitch period T is greater than the converted interval T1 is obtained. The frequency-domain pitch period code is output so that a decoding side can identify the frequency-domain pitch period T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada, Yusuke Hiwasaki, Masahiro Fukui
  • Publication number: 20180268843
    Abstract: A parameter determination device includes: a spectral envelope estimating portion performing estimation of a spectral envelope using a parameter ?0 specified in a predetermined method, regarding the ?0-th power of absolute values of a frequency domain sample sequence corresponding to a time-series signal as a power spectrum on the assumption that the parameter ?0 and a parameter ? are positive numbers; a whitened spectral sequence generating portion obtaining a whitened spectral sequence which is a sequence obtained by dividing the frequency domain sample sequence by the spectral envelope; and a parameter acquiring portion determining such a parameter ? that generalized Gaussian distribution with the parameter ? as a shape parameter approximates a histogram of the whitened spectral sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Takehiro MORIYA, Yutaka KAMAMOTO, Noboru HARADA, Hirokazu KAMEOKA, Ryosuke SUGIURA
  • Patent number: 10074376
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro Moriya, Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada
  • Patent number: 10056088
    Abstract: In encoding, pitch periods for time series signals in a predetermined time interval are calculated, and a code corresponding thereto is output. In that encoding, the resolutions for expressing the pitch periods and/or a pitch period encoding mode are switched according to whether an index indicating a periodicity and/or stationarity level of the time series signals satisfies a condition indicating high or low in periodicity and/or stationarity. In that decoding, according to whether an index indicating a periodicity and/or stationarity level, the index being included in or obtained from an input code corresponding to the predetermined time interval, satisfies a condition indicating high periodicity and/or stationarity, a decoding mode for a code, included in the input code, corresponding to pitch periods is switched to decode the code corresponding to the pitch periods to obtain the pitch periods corresponding to the predetermined time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro Moriya, Noboru Harada, Yutaka Kamamoto