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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for determining an encoding rate in a variable rate vocoder.SOLUTION: The apparatus includes: a subband energy calculating means 4, 6 for receiving an input signal and calculating a plurality of subband energy values according to a predetermined subband energy calculation format; and an encoding rate determining means 16 for receiving the plurality of subband energy values and selecting or determining an encoding rate according to the plurality of subband energy values.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new improved method and system for compressing speech by using a variable speed vocoding technique. SOLUTION: A device and method for executing speech signal compression by variable speed coding of a frame of a digitized speech sample (10) are provided. The speech activity level for each frame of a digitized speech sample is decided, and output data packet speed is selected from a pair of speed on the basis of the level at which the frame speech activity is decided. The lowest speed of the speed pair correspond to the lowest level speech activity detected as the background noise in the speech or a pause or the like, on the other hand, the highest speed corresponds to the highest level speech activity detected as active utterance or the like. Thereafter, each frame is coded according to a coding format preliminarily specified to the selected speed, and each speed has a corresponding number of bits for expressing the coding frame. A data packet is given to each coding frame having each output data packet of a bit speed corresponding to the selected speed.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for determining encoding rate in a variable rate vocoder. SOLUTION: The apparatus comprises: subband energy calculation means 4 and 6 for receiving an input signal and calculating a plurality of subband energy values according to a predetermined subband energy calculation format; and an encoding rate determining means 16 for determining or selecting the encoding rate according to the plurality of subband energy value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved method and system for performing speech compression by using variable rate vocoding technology. SOLUTION: Disclosed is the method for generating a current estimated value (B') of background noise in a frame of a speech signal (S(n)) including a plurality of frames, the method including: calculating the energy level (R(0)) of a frame of the speech signal (S(n)); obtaining an estimated value (B) of background noise in the last frame of the speech signal; and generating the current estimated value (B') of background noise based upon the energy level (R(0)) and the estimated value (B) of background noise in the last frame. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide new improved method and system which compress speech by using variable speed vocoding technology. SOLUTION: The device and method perform compression of a speech signal by the variable speed encoding of a frame of a digitized speech sample (10). Levels of speech activities for each frame of the digitized speech sample are determined and output data packet speed is selected from one set of speed based on the determined levels of the frame speech activities. The lowest speed of the set of speed corresponds to a speech activity at the minimum detected level such as background noise or pause in the speech and on the other hand, the highest speed corresponds to a speech activity at the maximum detected level such as active utterance. After that, each frame is encoded to the selected speed according to a predetermined encoding format, in which each speed has the corresponding number of bits indicating the encoded frame. Data packets are provided to each encoded frame having each output data packet at bit rate corresponding to the selected speed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for controlling data rates for communication to and from a base station (2) and a plurality of remote users (4). SOLUTION: The usage of the communications resource whether the forward- link resource, from the base station (2) to remote users (4), or a reverse-link resource, from the remote users (4) to the base station (2) is measured. The measured usage value is compared against at least one predetermined threshold and the data rates of communication or a subset of communications on the communications resource is modified according to the comparisons. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for enhancing the usage of spectrum, in a method and an apparatus using a multi-carrier forward link in a wireless communication system. SOLUTION: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus that allows a telecommunication system using cdma2000 1X to easily migrate to using cdma2000 3X. Better spectrum management is regulated, the concurrent usage of a standard cdma2000 1X reverse link can be used with a cdma2000 1X time-division duplexing (TDD) reverse link, and hardware correction is regulated -as that opposed to the whole replacement- when additional service is added to an existing code division multiple access (CDMA) system. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for detecting whether an input sound is in a non-sound state, when an encoding rate of a variable rate vocoder is determined. SOLUTION: In order to detect whether a frame of the input signal has an audio signal or silence (non-sound), an index of a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the input signal is determined. A first scaling factor and a second scaling factor are selected or calculated by using the index of the SNR, and a threshold in a low frequency band and the threshold in a high frequency band are calculated by using the first and second scaling factors. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for estimating a background noise energy level. SOLUTION: The method comprises measuring the energy of a current speech frame; and determining a new estimate of the background noise based on the comparison of the measured energy of the current speech frame and a previous estimate of the background noise. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for adding remaining frames to a plurality of frames encoded by a vocoder. SOLUTION: The device is provided with: a means 12 for detecting the encoding of continuous frames of which the number of frames is previously determined by a 1st rate; a means 14 for determining a state that succeeding continuous frames should be encoded by a 2nd rate smaller than the 1st rate; and a means 16 for selecting the number of continuous remaining frames started by the succeeding continuous frames to be encoded by the 1st rate and the number of frames to be selected depends on the estimated value of a background noise level. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO