IP Library Granted Patent US 7,848,921
Granted Patent B2
US 7,848,921 · App. 11/573,765 · Granted Dec 7, 2010

Low-frequency-band component and high-frequency-band audio encoding/decoding apparatus, and communication apparatus thereof

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Patent No.
US 7,848,921
App. No.
11/573,765
Granted
Dec 7, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

An audio encoding apparatus capable of improving a frame cancellation error tolerance without increasing a number of bits of a fixed codebook in a CELP type audio encoding. A linear prediction analyzer analyzes an input digital speech signal and outputs linear predictive coefficients. A linear predictive coefficients quantizer quantizes the linear predictive coefficients. A low-frequency-band component encoder encodes a down-sampled linear-predictive residual signal by a pulse-code-modulation encoder and generates low-frequency-band component encoded information, while a high-frequency-band component encoder encodes an error signal between a linear-predictive residual signal and an up-sampled signal of a decoded down-sampled linear-predictive residual signal by a code-excited-linear-prediction encoder and generates high-frequency-band component encoded information.

Claims (19)

1. A speech encoding apparatus, comprising:

a linear prediction analyzer that analyzes an input digital speech signal and outputs linear predictive coefficients;

a linear predictive coefficients quantizer that quantizes the linear predictive coefficients;

a low-frequency-band component encoder that encodes a down-sampled linear-predictive residual signal by a pulse-code-modulation encoder and generates low-frequency-band component encoded information; and

a high-frequency-band component encoder that encodes an error signal between a linear-predictive residual signal and an up-sampled signal of a decoded down-sampled linear-predictive residual signal by a code-excited-linear-prediction encoder and generates high-frequency-band component encoded information.

2. The speech encoding apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the high-frequency-band component encoder encodes the error signal using an adaptive codebook and a fixed codebook.

3. A communication apparatus comprising the speech encoding apparatus according to claim 1 .

4. The speech encoding apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the high-frequency-band component encoder quantizes pitch lag information in the adaptive codebook based on the up-sampled signal of the decoded down-sampled linear-predictive residual signal.

5. A speech decoding apparatus, comprising:

a linear predictive coefficients de-quantizer that decodes quantized linear predictive coefficients;

a low-frequency-band component decoder that decodes a down-sampled linear-predictive residual signal by a pulse-code-modulation decoder and up-samples the down-sampled linear-predictive residual signal and outputs an up-sampled signal of the decoded down-sampled linear-predictive residual signal;

a high-frequency-band component decoder that decodes an error signal between a linear-predictive residual signal and the up-sampled signal of the decoded down-sampled linear-predictive residual signal by a code-excited-linear-prediction decoder, and outputs the decoded error signal; and

a synthesis filter that synthesizes a decoded speech signal excited by a summation of the up-sampled signal of the decoded down-sampled linear-predictive residual signal and the decoded error signal.

6. A communication apparatus comprising the speech decoding apparatus according to claim 5 .

7. A speech encoding method, comprising:

analyzing an input digital speech signal using a linear predictive analyzer and outputting linear predictive coefficients using linear prediction;

quantizing the linear predictive coefficients;

encoding a down-sampled linear-predictive residual signal by a pulse-code-modulation encoder and generating low-frequency-band component encoded information; and

encoding an error signal between a linear-predictive residual signal and an up-sampled signal of a decoded down-sampled linear-predictive residual signal by a code-excited-linear-prediction encoder and generating high-frequency-band component encoded information.

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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 2, 2017
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
To: III HOLDINGS 12, LLC
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From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
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CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 14, 2008
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 25, 2007
From: EHARA, HIROYUKI
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
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