IP Library Granted Patent US 8,160,874
Granted Patent B2
US 8,160,874 · App. 12/159,312 · Granted Apr 17, 2012

Speech frame loss compensation using non-cyclic-pulse-suppressed version of previous frame excitation as synthesis filter source

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Patent No.
US 8,160,874
App. No.
12/159,312
Granted
Apr 17, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

An audio decoding device performs frame loss compensation capable of obtaining a decoded audio which is natural for ears with little noise. The audio decoding device includes a non-cyclic pulse waveform detection unit for detecting a non-cyclic pulse waveform section in a n−1-th frame, which is repeatedly used with a pitch cycle in the n-th frame upon compensation of loss of the n-th frame. The audio coding device also includes a non-cyclic pulse waveform suppression unit for suppressing a non-cyclic pulse waveform by replacing an audio source signal existing in the non-cyclic pulse waveform section in the n−1-th frame by a noise signal. The audio coding device further includes a synthesis filter for using a linear prediction coefficient decoded by an LPC decoding unit to perform synthesis by a synthesis filter by using the audio source signal of the n−1-th frame from the non-cyclic pulse waveform suppression unit as a drive audio source, thereby obtaining the decoded audio signal of the n-th frame.

Claims (20)

1. A speech decoding apparatus, comprising:

a detector that detects a non-periodic pulse waveform region in a first frame;

a suppressor that suppresses a non-periodic pulse waveform in the non-periodic pulse waveform region of the first frame;

a storage that stores information from the first frame;

a determiner that determines that a second frame after the first frame was lost during transmission;

a retriever that retrieves the stored information from the first frame; and

a synthesizer that performs synthesis by a synthesis filter using the stored information from the first frame where the non-periodic pulse waveform is suppressed as an excitation and obtains decoded speech of the second frame after the first frame.

2. The speech decoding apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein, when a maximum auto-correlation value of an excitation signal in the first frame is less than a threshold and a difference or ratio between a first maximum value and a second maximum value of excitation amplitude is equal to or higher than a threshold, the detector detects a region where the first maximum value exists as the non-periodic pulse waveform region.

3. The speech decoding apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the suppressor suppresses the non-periodic pulse waveform in the first frame by substituting a noise signal for the non-periodic pulse waveform.

4. The speech decoding apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the suppressor suppresses the non-periodic pulse waveform in the first frame by randomizing phases of an excitation signal outside the non-periodic pulse waveform region.

5. A speech decoding method, comprising:

detecting a non-periodic pulse waveform region in a first frame;

suppressing a non-periodic pulse waveform in the non-periodic pulse waveform region of the first frame;

storing information from the first frame;

determining that a second frame after the first frame was lost during transmission;

retrieving the stored information from the first frame; and

performing synthesis by a synthesis filter using the stored information from the first frame where the non-periodic pulse waveform is suppressed as an excitation, and obtaining decoded speech of the second frame after the first frame.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 2, 2017
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
To: III HOLDINGS 12, LLC
Reel/Frame 042386/0779 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 27, 2014
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 033033/0163 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 13, 2008
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021832/0215 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 25, 2008
From: KAWASHIMA, TAKUYA; EHARA, HIROYUKI
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021585/0869 →