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Sound synthesizing method and apparatus, and sound band expanding method and apparatus

US6289311A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 20, 1998
Grant dateSep 11, 2001
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Expiry dateOct 20, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L2019/0005
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for sound synthesizing and sound band expanding of a narrow band input signal uses wide-band voiced and unvoiced sound code books and also uses narrow-band voiced and unvoiced sound code books. Coded input sound parameters are decoded and quantized using the narrow-band voiced and unvoiced sound code books and are then de-quantized using the wide-band voiced and unvoiced sound code books. The sound is synthesized based on the de-quantized data and a so-called innovation-related parameter formed by a zero-filling circuit filing zeros between samples of the framed input signal, so that the result is an upsampled aliased wide-band signal used with the de-quantized data to synthesize the sound.

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