Abstract:
A method and apparatus for mitigating effects of multipath fading, interference, and noise in a single sideband (SSB) signal transmitted by a radio communication system and demodulated by a portable subscriber unit (122) utilizing a demodulator (304) compensated by a pilot signal power (406). The apparatus performs the mitigation process by calculating (708) a pilot fading threshold in addition to a muting threshold. When samples of the mean pilot signal power fall below the fading threshold, the compensation of the demodulated signal is adjusted (714). In addition, when the mean analog message signal power falls below the muting threshold, the samples included in the predetermined portion of the message are muted (718).
Abstract:
A method and apparatus (206) for time-scale modification of an input signal comprises the steps and a device that performs the steps of digitizing the input signal for analysis, storing the input signal in a memory and then dividing the input signal into time frames (250). The method and device then determines a difference in the short-term frequency spectrum between adjacent time frames (252 and 254) to provide a first speed factor (S1) and the input signal is time-scaled (208) in accordance with the first speed factor. Optionally, a second speed factor (S2) can be determined from the percentage of silence (262) observed within the input signal and the input signal can then be time-scaled in accordance with the first and second speed factors to provide a given quality of reconstructed speech.
Abstract:
A modulation scheme (600) useful in a voice paging system in which both of two orthogonal modulation components (500 and 510) are used to carry two halves of a single voice message destined for a receiver, or two separate voice messages for a receiver. The single voice message is transmitted in half the time.
Abstract:
A method for time-scale modification of speech using a modified version of the Waveform Similarity based Overlap-Add technique (WSOLA) comprises the steps of storing a portion of an input speech signal in a memory, analysing the portion of the input speech signal providing an estimated pitch value (12), determining a segment size (14) in response to the estimated pitch value and time-scaling (18) the input speech signal for a given time-scaling factor and in response to the determined segment size.
Abstract:
A method (100) of compressing a digital signal that is parametrically modeled and encoded includes the steps of storing (102) the digital signal in a memory in a plurality of frames having a plurality of parameters in each frame of the plurality of frames, wherein the digital signal was encoded at a higher rate and converting the digital signal to a lower rate by selecting (106) from each frame of the plurality of frames a subset of the plurality of parameters and discarding (108) the subset of the plurality of parameters within each frame of the plurality of frames.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus is for use in a radio communication system (100) for delivering a message from a system controller (102) to a selective call device. In the system controller (102) the method includes the steps of generating a first message intended for the selective call device (106), changing a delivery state of the first message to undelivered after the first message has been transmitted at least once from the system controller (102), and storing the first message in the system controller (102) when the delivery state is changed to undelivered. In the selective call device the method includes the steps of determining that the first message is stored in the system controller (102) and presenting user with information which indicates that an undeliverable message is being stored by the system controller (102) in response to determining that the first message (102) is stored in the system controller (102).
Abstract:
The present invention comprises a method for compressing a plurality of voice signals within a voice communication resource (see Fig. 6) having a given bandwidth within a voice communication system. The method comprises the steps of subchanneling the voice communication resource (441, 442, 443) while placing at least one of each of the plurality of voice signals on a subchannel and time-scaling (18) each of the voice signals within each of the subchannels, wherein these steps provide a compressed voice signal.
Abstract:
A modulation scheme (600) useful in a voice paging system in which both of two orthogonal modulation components (500 and 510) are used to carry two halves of a single voice message destined for a receiver, or two separate voice messages for a receiver. The single voice message is transmitted in half the time.
Abstract:
A method for time-scale modification of speech using a modified version of the Waveform Similarity based Overlap-Add technique (WSOLA) comprises the steps of storing a portion of an input speech signal in a memory, analysing the portion of the input speech signal providing an estimated pitch value (12), determining a segment size (14) in response to the estimated pitch value and time-scaling (18) the input speech signal for a given time-scaling factor and in response to the determined segment size.