Linear Prediction Patents (Class 704/219)
  • Patent number: 10200727
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: splitting a video stream into a plurality of sub-streams, encoding each of the sub-streams in parallel, and transmitting a packet to a receiver, wherein the packet includes a number of the encoded sub-streams. Each of the sub-streams individually provide a unique version of the video stream having a lower video quality, while merging more than one of the sub-streams provides a merged version of the video stream having a relatively higher video quality. Moreover, the number of the encoded sub-streams included in the packet transmitted to the receiver corresponds to a quality of service associated with the receiver. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Amir Asif, Alicia E. Chin, Yonggang Hu, Zhenhua Hu, Vida Movahedi
  • Patent number: 10186272
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bandwidth extension method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring a bandwidth extension parameter, where the bandwidth extension parameter includes one or more of the following parameters: a linear predictive coefficient (LPC), a line spectral frequency (LSF) parameter, a pitch period, a decoding rate, an adaptive codebook contribution, and an algebraic codebook contribution; and performing, according to the bandwidth extension parameter, bandwidth extension on a decoded low frequency band signal, to obtain a high frequency band signal. The high frequency band signal recovered by using the bandwidth extension method and apparatus in the embodiments of the present invention is close to an original high frequency band signal, and the quality is satisfactory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao, Bin Wang
  • Patent number: 10178034
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computing system program products for iteratively calculating autocorrelation function for streamed data in real time by iteratively calculating one or more components of autocorrelation function. Embodiments of the invention include iteratively calculating one or more components of autocorrelation function at a specified range of lags in an adjusted computation window based on the one or more components of the autocorrelation function at the specified range of lags calculated for a previous computation window and then calculating the autocorrelation function at the specified range of lags using the iteratively calculated components. Iteratively calculating autocorrelation function avoids visiting all data elements in the adjusted computation window and performing redundant computations thereby increasing calculation efficiency, saving computing resources and reducing computing system's power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: CLOUD & STREAM GEARS LLC
    Inventor: Jizhu Lu
  • Patent number: 10163447
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Venkatesh Krishnan, Venkatraman S. Atti
  • Patent number: 10163448
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to estimate, with a small amount of computation, a linear prediction synthesis filter after conversion of an internal sampling frequency. A linear prediction coefficient conversion device is a device that converts first linear prediction coefficients calculated at a first sampling frequency to second linear prediction coefficients at a second sampling frequency different from the first sampling frequency, which includes a means for calculating, on the real axis of the unit circle, a power spectrum corresponding to the second linear prediction coefficients at the second sampling frequency based on the first linear prediction coefficients or an equivalent parameter, a means for calculating, on the real axis of the unit circle, autocorrelation coefficients from the power spectrum, and a means for converting the autocorrelation coefficients to the second linear prediction coefficients at the second sampling frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Naka, Vesa Ruoppila
  • Patent number: 10152274
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for reading/writing data from/into a flash memory, and user equipment are presented. The method includes receiving a read data instruction, where the read data instruction includes a size of to-be-read data and a physical address of the to-be-read data in the flash memory; searching a buffer for the physical address; when the physical address is not found in the buffer, dividing a buffer data area from internal memory according to the size of the to-be-read data and an actual physical block size of the flash memory; and reading the to-be-read data from the flash memory according to the physical address and buffering the to-be-read data into the buffer data area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhigang Li, Guojun Shi, Yingchun Zhao
  • Patent number: 10152983
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing coding and decoding for high-frequency bandwidth extension. The coding apparatus may down-sample an input signal, perform core coding on the down-sampled input signal, perform frequency transformation on the input signal, and perform bandwidth extension coding by using a base signal of the input signal in a frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-hyun Choo, Eun-mi Oh, Ho-sang Sung
  • Patent number: 10134406
    Abstract: Present disclosure provide a linear prediction-based noise signal processing method includes: acquiring a noise signal, and obtaining a linear prediction coefficient according to the noise signal; filtering the noise signal according to the linear prediction coefficient, to obtain a linear prediction residual signal; obtaining a spectral envelope of the linear prediction residual signal according to the linear prediction residual signal; and encoding the spectral envelope of the linear prediction residual signal. According to the noise processing method, the noise generation method, the encoder, the decoder, and the encoding and decoding system that are in the embodiments of the present disclosure, more spectral details of an original background noise signal can be recovered, so that comfort noise can be closer to original background noise in terms of subjective auditory perception of a user, and subjective perception quality of the user is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhe Wang
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10074375
    Abstract: A weighting function determination method includes obtaining a line spectral frequency (LSF) coefficient or an immitance spectral frequency (ISF) coefficient from a linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficient of an input signal and determining a weighting function by combining a first weighting function based on spectral analysis information and a second weighting function based on position information of the LSF coefficient or the ISF coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho-sang Sung, Eun-mi Oh
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10049680
    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 14, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro Moriya, Noboru Harada, Yutaka Kamamoto
  • Patent number: 10049679
    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 14, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro Moriya, Noboru Harada, Yutaka Kamamoto
  • Patent number: 10038735
    Abstract: An exemplary method is implemented by end-user communication devices for transmitting and receiving HTTP messages in which acknowledgement of receipt by an addressee of an email is requested by an originator of the email. An acknowledgement request command is stored in a command portion of a user data segment of a received HTTP message. Upon receipt of the HTTP message by the addressee device, a reply HTTP message with an acknowledgement request must be authorized to be transmitted to the originator in order to allow the addressee to be able to view the content of the received HTTP message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Loment, Inc.
    Inventors: Venkata C. Majeti, Sri Sharmila Sripada, Madhur Mohan Vyas, Simon W. Zhang
  • Patent number: 10025560
    Abstract: A method of performing finite field addition and doubling operations in an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) authentication scheme as a countermeasure to side-channel attack. The addition and doubling operations are executed using atomic patterns that involve the same sequence and number of operation types, so that the noise consumption and electromagnetic emanation profile of circuitry performing the operations is identical regardless of operation. A subtraction operation using such an atomic pattern is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Eric Thierry Peeters
  • Patent number: 9997172
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product are described for voice activity detection (VAD) within a digitally encoded bitstream. A parameter extraction module is configured to extract parameters from a sequence of coded frames from a digitally encoded bitstream containing speech. A VAD classifier is configured to operate with input of the digitally encoded bitstream to evaluate each coded frame based on bitstream coding parameter classification features to output a VAD decision indicative of whether or not speech is present in one or more of the coded frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Barreda, Jose E. G. Lainez, Dushyant Sharma, Patrick Naylor
  • Patent number: 9978388
    Abstract: A method for restoring distorted speech components of an audio signal distorted by a noise reduction or a noise cancellation includes determining distorted frequency regions and undistorted frequency regions in the audio signal. The distorted frequency regions include regions of the audio signal in which a speech distortion is present. Iterations are performed using a model to refine predictions of the audio signal at distorted frequency regions. The model is configured to modify the audio signal and may include deep neural network trained using spectral envelopes of clean or undamaged audio signals. Before each iteration, the audio signal at the undistorted frequency regions is restored to values of the audio signal prior to the first iteration; while the audio signal at distorted frequency regions is refined starting from zero at the first iteration. Iterations are ended when discrepancies of audio signal at undistorted frequency regions meet pre-defined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Carlos Avendano, John Woodruff
  • Patent number: 9953660
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards a system and method for reducing tandeming effects in a communications system. The method may include receiving, at a speech decoder, an input bitstream associated with an incoming initial speech signal from a speech encoder. The method may further include determining whether or not coding is required and if coding is required, modifying an excitation signal associated with the bitstream. The method may also include providing the modified excitation signal to an adaptive encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Qian-Yu Tang, Victor Zeyliger, Constantine V. Skidanenko
  • Patent number: 9947328
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for reconstructing an audio signal having a baseband portion and a highband portion is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a decoded baseband audio signal by decoding an encoded audio signal and obtaining a plurality of subband signals by filtering the decoded baseband audio signal. The method further includes generating a high-frequency reconstructed signal by copying a number of consecutive subband signals of the plurality of subband signals and obtaining an envelope adjusted high-frequency signal. The method further includes generating a noise component based on a noise parameter. Finally, the method includes adjusting a phase of the high-frequency reconstructed signal and obtaining a time-domain reconstructed audio signal by combining the decoded baseband audio signal and the combined high-frequency signal to obtain a time-domain reconstructed audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Michael M. Truman, Mark S. Vinton
  • Patent number: 9923551
    Abstract: The invention is a method that combines the following components: a high pass filter designed to have sufficiently small phase delay and roll-off value in transition band as well as sufficiently good attenuation; a distortion detection and reconstruction introduced by the application of the high pass filter by extraction the significant frequency components in relevant frequency band; a signal compensation that reshapes the output of the high pass filter by matching the filter's phase delay and attenuation characteristics so as to approximate low frequency component extraction that would be produced by an ideal filter (very sharp frequency transition and no delay); a time-domain detection and correction method that addresses special circumstances under which the compensation would be inaccurate to achieve real-time estimate in normal circumstances, and a time-domain correction method during and immediately after sudden changes in composite signal (spike) is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Lily Rachmawati, Eng Yeow Cheu, Anna Swider, Martijn De Jongh, Eivind Vinje
  • Patent number: 9911407
    Abstract: A system and method are presented for the synthesis of speech from provided text. Particularly, the generation of parameters within the system is performed as a continuous approximation in order to mimic the natural flow of speech as opposed to a step-wise approximation of the feature stream. Provided text may be partitioned and parameters generated using a speech model. The generated parameters from the speech model may then be used in a post-processing step to obtain a new set of parameters for application in speech synthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Interactive Intelligence Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Yingyi Tan, Aravind Ganapathiraju, Felix Immanuel Wyss
  • Patent number: 9911414
    Abstract: Techniques are described for detecting and/or validating audible taps, double-taps, or other tapped audio sequences generated by a user. A predicted voice signal is subtracted from an audio signal to produce a prediction error signal. The prediction error signal is analyzed in terms of dynamics and periodicity to determine whether it contains an audio pulse. In certain cases, prediction error signals corresponding to multiple microphones are analyzed to determine position information regarding the individual taps of a double-tap. A double-tap is validated and acted upon when the individual taps originate from the same location and the taps occur within a given time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jun Yang
  • Patent number: 9892739
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a signal decoding method and device. The method includes decoding a bit stream of a voice signal or an audio signal to acquire a decoded signal; predicting an excitation signal of an extension band according to the decoded signal, where the extension band is adjacent to a band of the decoded signal, and the band of the decoded signal is lower than the extension band; selecting a first band and a second band from the decoded signal, and predicting a spectral envelope of the extension band according to a spectral coefficient of the first band and a spectral coefficient of the second band; and determining a frequency-domain signal of the extension band according to the spectral envelope of the extension band and the excitation signal of the extension band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 9886962
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method performed by a data processing apparatus includes receiving an audio signal that includes a frequency-domain representation of an audio file, extracting, from the audio signal, a plurality of frequency-domain data values that correspond to at least a portion of the audio file, compressing the plurality of data values to form a compressed frequency domain value file, and transmitting the compressed frequency domain value file to a server to identify the audio file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Giovanni Motta, Yang Lu
  • Patent number: 9881626
    Abstract: A vector joint encoding/decoding method and a vector joint encoder/decoder are provided, more than two vectors are jointly encoded, and an encoding index of at least one vector is split and then combined between different vectors, so that encoding idle spaces of different vectors can be recombined, thereby facilitating saving of encoding bits, and because an encoding index of a vector is split and then shorter split indexes are recombined, thereby facilitating reduction of requirements for the bit width of operating parts in encoding/decoding calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fuwei Ma, Dejun Zhang, Lei Miao, Fengyan Qi
  • Patent number: 9881624
    Abstract: A method is provided. The method includes obtaining a low-band spectrum of an audio signal in which a low-band signal is frequency transformed; obtaining phase information of a high-band spectrum of the audio signal based on the low-band spectrum; and outputting a bitstream that comprises the phase information of the high-band spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Ki-hyun Choo, Ho-chong Park, Eun-mi Oh
  • Patent number: 9881597
    Abstract: The present document relates to audio coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR), and to digital effect processors, e.g. so-called exciters, where generation of harmonic distortion adds brightness to the processed signal. In particular, a system configured to generate a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described. The system may comprise an analysis filter bank (501) configured to provide a set of analysis subband signals from the low frequency component of the signal; wherein the set of analysis subband signals comprises at least two analysis subband signals; wherein the analysis filter bank (501) has a frequency resolution of ?f.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Per Ekstrand, Lars Villemoes, Per Hedelin
  • Patent number: 9872045
    Abstract: A method, electronic device, computer program product, system and circuit assembly are provided for allocating one or more redundant pictures by taking into consideration the information content of the primary pictures, with which the redundant pictures would be associated. In particular, primary pictures that are determined to be more sensitive to transmission loss or corruption may be allocated one or more redundant pictures, while those that are less sensitive may not be so allocated. By selectively allocating redundant pictures to only those primary pictures that are more sensitive, the method disclosed reduces the amount of overhead associated with redundant pictures and increases the coding efficiency, without sacrificing the integrity of the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Conversant Wireless Licensing S.a r.l.
    Inventors: Chunbo Zhu, Ye-Kui Wang, Houqiang Li
  • Patent number: 9859917
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for significantly compressing sparse multidimensional ordered series data comprised of indexed data sets, wherein each data set comprises an index, a first variable and a second variable. The methods and systems are particularly suited for compression of data recorded in double precision floating point format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Protein Metrics Inc.
    Inventor: Doron Kletter
  • Patent number: 9852739
    Abstract: In a method for coding of information for enhancing a background noise representation, voice activity of an input speech signal is determined. A noisiness parameter is determined for an inactive speech signal, wherein the noisiness parameter is based on a ratio of prediction gains of two Linear Predictive Coder (LPC) prediction filters with different orders. The noisiness parameter is quantized, and the quantized noisiness parameter is encoded for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Stefan Bruhn
  • Patent number: 9852740
    Abstract: A high quality speech is reproduced with a small data amount in speech coding and decoding for performing compression coding and decoding of a speech signal to a digital signal. In speech coding method according to a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coding, a noise level of a speech in a concerning coding period is evaluated by using a code or coding result of at least one of spectrum information, power information, and pitch information, and various excitation codebooks are used based on an evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamaura
  • Patent number: 9847095
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal. According to the present application, a signal of a high frequency band above a preset frequency band is adaptively encoded or decoded in the time domain or in the frequency domain by using a signal of a low frequency band below the preset frequency band. As such, the sound quality of a high frequency signal is not deteriorate even when an audio signal is encoded or decoded by using a small number of bits and thus coding efficiency may be maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang-yong Son, Eun-mi Oh, Ki-hyun Choo, Jung-hoe Kim
  • Patent number: 9817379
    Abstract: A system and method for encouraging an energy user to conserve energy by providing the user with musical feedback describing their energy use as a musical piece. Various musical parameters of the musical piece may be manipulated to describe higher- or lower-than-expected energy use, in order to encourage the user to conserve energy. A visual animation may also be added to the musical piece to illustrate it further.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventor: David Krinkel
  • Patent number: 9798653
    Abstract: Adapted speech models produce fluent synthesized speech in a voice that sounds as if the speaker were fluent in a language in which the speaker is actually non-fluent. A full speech model is obtained based on fluent speech in the language spoken by a first person who is fluent in the language. A limited set of utterances is obtained in the language spoken by a second person who is non-fluent in the language but able to speak the limited set of utterances in the language. The full speech model of the first person is then processed with the limited set of utterances of the second person to produce an adapted speech model. The adapted speech model may be stored to a multi-lingual speech model as a child node of a root with an associated language selection question and branches pointed to the adapted speech model and other speech models, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Xu Shao, Andrew Breen
  • Patent number: 9799349
    Abstract: The dynamic range and power efficiency of a voice-activated system may be improved by dynamically adjusting the configuration of the voice-activated system's input path. In one embodiment, a first portion of audio may be received through an input path of the voice-activated system having a first configuration. A characteristic of the first portion of audio may be determined and the input path may be adjusted to a second configuration based on the determined characteristic. A second portion of audio may then be received through the input path having the second configuration, and speech analysis may be performed on the second portion of audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Yousof Mortazavi, Ramin Zanbaghi, Aaron Brennan, John L. Melanson
  • Patent number: 9767816
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for reconstructing an audio signal having a baseband portion and a highband portion is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a decoded baseband audio signal by decoding an encoded audio signal and obtaining a plurality of subband signals by filtering the decoded baseband audio signal. The method further includes generating a high-frequency reconstructed signal by copying a number of consecutive subband signals of the plurality of subband signals and obtaining an envelope adjusted high-frequency signal. The method further includes generating a noise component based on a noise parameter. Finally, the method includes adjusting a phase of the high-frequency reconstructed signal and obtaining a time-domain reconstructed audio signal by combining the decoded baseband audio signal and the combined high-frequency signal to obtain a time-domain reconstructed audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Michael M. Truman, Mark S. Vinton
  • Patent number: 9747909
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a method for processing an input audio signal, comprising: splitting the input audio signal into at least two components, in which the first component is characterized by fast fluctuations in the input signal envelope, and a second component that is relatively stationary over time; processing the second, stationary component by a decorrelation circuit; and constructing an output signal by combining the output of the decorrelator circuit with the input signal and/or the first component signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Dirk Jeroen Breebaart, Lie Lu, Antonio Mateos Sole, Nicolas R. Tsingos
  • Patent number: 9747915
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a selector supports the selection of a first encoding scheme or the second encoding scheme based upon the detection or absence of the triggering characteristic in the interval of the input speech signal. The first encoding scheme has a pitch pre-processing procedure for processing the input speech signal to form a revised speech signal biased toward an ideal voiced and stationary characteristic. The pre-processing procedure allows the encoder to fully capture the benefits of a bandwidth-efficient, long-term predictive procedure for a greater amount of speech components of an input speech signal than would otherwise be possible. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the second encoding scheme entails a long-term prediction mode for encoding the pitch on a sub-frame by sub-frame basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Mindspeed Technologies, LLC.
    Inventor: Yang Gao
  • Patent number: 9734843
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal includes an anti-sparseness processing unit to perform anti-sparseness processing on a low-frequency spectrum; and a frequency domain high-frequency extension decoding unit to perform high-frequency extension encoding in the frequency domain on the low-frequency spectrum on which the anti-sparseness processing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ki-hyun Choo
  • Patent number: 9711156
    Abstract: A particular method includes determining, based on spectral information corresponding to an audio signal that includes a low-band portion and a high-band portion, that the audio signal includes a component corresponding to an artifact-generating condition. The method also includes filtering the high-band portion of the audio signal and generating an encoded signal. Generating the encoded signal includes determining gain information based on a ratio of a first energy corresponding to filtered high-band output to a second energy corresponding to the low-band portion to reduce an audible effect of the artifact-generating condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Venkatraman Srinivasa Atti, Venkatesh Krishnan, Vivek Rajendran, Stephane Pierre Villette
  • Patent number: 9704498
    Abstract: A vector joint encoding/decoding method and a vector joint encoder/decoder are provided, more than two vectors are jointly encoded, and an encoding index of at least one vector is split and then combined between different vectors, so that encoding idle spaces of different vectors can be recombined, thereby facilitating saving of encoding bits, and because an encoding index of a vector is split and then shorter split indexes are recombined, thereby facilitating reduction of requirements for the bit width of operating parts in encoding/decoding calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuwei Ma, Dejun Zhang, Lei Miao, Fengyan Qi
  • Patent number: 9704496
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for reconstructing an audio signal having a baseband portion and a highband portion is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a decoded baseband audio signal by decoding an encoded audio signal and obtaining a plurality of subband signals by filtering the decoded baseband audio signal. The method further includes generating a high-frequency reconstructed signal by copying a number of consecutive subband signals of the plurality of subband signals and obtaining an envelope adjusted high-frequency signal. The method further includes generating a noise component based on a noise parameter. Finally, the method includes adjusting a phase of the high-frequency reconstructed signal and obtaining a time-domain reconstructed audio signal by combining the decoded baseband audio signal and the combined high-frequency signal to obtain a time-domain reconstructed audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Michael M. Truman, Mark S. Vinton
  • Patent number: 9704501
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a codec device and method for encoding/decoding voice and audio signals in a communication system, wherein: a fixed codebook excited signal is generated by using a pulse index for a voice signal; a first adaptive codebook excited signal is generated by using a pitch index for the voice signal; a fixed codebook signal is generated by multiplying the fixed codebook excited signal by a fixed codebook gain; a first adaptive codebook signal is generated by multiplying the first adaptive codebook excited signal by a first adaptive codebook gain; and a synthesized filter excited signal is generated by adding the fixed codebook signal and the first adaptive codebook signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Mi-Suk Lee
  • Patent number: 9691379
    Abstract: A speech-based system may be configured to receive and act upon spoken requests from a user. In some cases, a spoken request may ask the system to play content such as music without specifying from which of multiple available content sources the music is to be obtained. In response to such a request, the system analyzes feature scores for each of the content sources. The feature scores indicate usage characteristics of the different sources by a current user or groups of users. The features scores for a particular source may be averaged or otherwise combined to create a composite score, and the source having the highest composite score is selected as the source of the requested content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lambert Mathias, Stephen Frederick Potter
  • Patent number: 9685165
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for predicting a high band excitation signal are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring, according to a received low band bitstream, a set of spectral frequency parameters that are arranged in an order of frequencies, calculating a spectral frequency parameter difference between every two spectral frequency parameters that have a same position interval; acquiring a minimum spectral frequency parameter difference from the calculated spectral frequency parameter differences; determining, according to a frequency bin that corresponds to the minimum spectral frequency parameter difference, a start frequency bin for predicting a high band excitation signal from a low band; and predicting the high band excitation signal from the low band according to the start frequency bin. By implementing embodiments of the present invention, a high band excitation signal can be better predicted, thereby improving performance of the high band excitation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 9679576
    Abstract: A speech/audio coding apparatus and method is provided. The number of encoding bits allocated to encoding of extended-band spectrum is reduced while degradation of sound quality in the extended band is suppressed. A band compression unit creates combinations of sub-band spectra in pairs of two samples each in order from a low-range side in a band compression target sub-band, selects a spectrum having a large absolute-value amplitude among the combinations, and arranges the selected spectrum close to the low-range side on a frequency axis. A number-of-units recalculation unit redistributes bits saved in the sub-band for which band compression was performed to a low range outside the extended band, and redistributes the number of units on the basis of the redistributed bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takuya Kawashima, Masahiro Oshikiri
  • Patent number: 9672835
    Abstract: Low bit rate audio coding such as BWE algorithm often encounters conflict goal of achieving high time resolution and high frequency resolution at the same time. In order to achieve best possible quality, input signal can be first classified into fast signal and slow signal. This invention focuses on classifying signal into fast signal and slow signal, based on at least one of the following parameters or a combination of the following parameters: spectral sharpness, temporal sharpness, pitch correlation (pitch gain), and/or spectral envelope variation. This classification information can help to choose different BWE algorithms, different coding algorithms, and different post-processing algorithms respectively for fast signal and slow signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yang Gao
  • Patent number: 9659565
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of evaluating intelligibility of a degraded speech signal received from an audio transmission system conveying a reference speech signal. The method comprises sampling said reference and degraded signals into reference and degraded signal frames, and forming frame pairs by associating reference and degraded signal frames with each other. For each frame pair a difference function representing disturbance is provided, which is then compensated for specific disturbance types for providing a disturbance density function. Based on the density function of a plurality of frame pairs, an overall quality parameter is determined. The method provides for weighing disturbances in silent periods dependent on the loudness of the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
    Inventor: John Gerard Beerends
  • Patent number: 9659573
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a signal processing apparatus and a signal processing method, an encoder and an encoding method, a decoder and a decoding method, and a program capable of reproducing music signal having a better sound quality by expansion of frequency band. A high band decoding circuit decodes high band encoded data outputs a coefficient table having coefficients for the respective high band sub-bands, which are specified by a coefficient index obtained as a result of decoding. A decoding high band sub-band power calculation circuit calculates decoded high band sub-band powers for the respective high band sub-bands based on low band signals and the coefficient table, and a decoded high band signal production unit produces decoded high band signals from these decoded high band sub-band powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Toru Chinen, Hiroyuki Honma, Yuhki Mitsufuji
  • Patent number: 9653088
    Abstract: A time shift calculated during a pitch-regularizing (PR) encoding of a frame of an audio signal is used to time-shift a segment of another frame during a non-PR encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vivek Rajendran, Ananthapadmanabhan A. Kandhadai, Venkatesh Krishnan