SOUND PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20020063642A1
• Filed: 11/28/2001
• Published: 05/30/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kawai, Tomoyuki, Maeda, Kengo
• Granted Patent: US 6,414,620 B1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 341/110
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/7857 using interleaved memory addressing G06F12/0607
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/04 Details of speech synthesis systems, e.g. synthesiser structure or memory management
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/28 Constructional details of speech recognition systems

Abstract

A signal processing system includes an A/D conversion section for converting an analog signal into a digital signal; a digital signal processing section for processing the digital signal; a D/A conversion section for converting the digital signal into an analog signal; a control section; and a memory section including a first program memory area for storing a program for processing the digital signal and a first data memory area. The digital signal processing section includes a second program memory area connected, via a first bus, to the first program memory area, and a second data memory area connected to the first data memory area via a second bus.

Claims

1. A signal processing system, comprising:

an A/D conversion section for converting an analog signal input from an external device into a digital signal;

a digital signal processing section for processing the digital signal;

a D/A conversion section for converting the digital signal processed by the digital signal processing section into an analog signal;

a control section for controlling the A/D conversion section, the digital signal processing section, and the D/A conversion section; and

a memory section including a first program memory area for storing a program for processing the digital signal and a first data memory area,

wherein;

the digital signal processing section includes a second program memory area connected, via a first bus, to the first program memory area, and a second data memory area connected to the first data memory area via a second bus,

the control section transfers the program stored in the first program memory area to the second program memory area via the first bus, and executes the program thus stored in the second program memory area, so as to control the processing of the digital signal performed by the digital signal processing section, and

the control section stores the digital signal processed by the digital signal processing section in the second data memory area, transfers at least a part of the digital signal stored in the second data memory area to the first data memory area via the second bus, and transfers the digital signal stored in the first data memory area to the second data memory area via the second bus, so as to control the processing of the digital signal performed by the digital signal processing section.

2. A signal processing system according to claim 1, wherein the analog signal input from the external device is a voice signal.

3. A signal processing system according to claim 2, wherein:

the first program memory area further stores data for comparison,

the second data memory area is connected to the first program memory area via a third bus,

the control section controls the digital signal processing section to read the data for comparison stored in the first program memory area and to compare the digital signal with the data for comparison.

4. A signal processing system according to claim 3, wherein the first program memory area is a rewritable non-volatile memory, and the first data memory area is a high-speed writable memory.

5. A signal processing system according to claim 4, wherein the high-speed writable memory is a volatile memory.

6. A signal processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a third data memory area connected to the first program memory area, wherein the control section stores external information received by a communication device in the third data memory area and transfers the external information stored in the third data memory area to the first program memory area.

7. A signal processing system according to claim 1, wherein:

the first program memory area includes a first non-volatile memory cell unit including at least one non-volatile memory cell, and a second non-volatile memory cell unit including at least one non-volatile memory cell, and

the signal processing system further comprises;

a comparison section for comparing the digital signal and data stored in each of the at least one non-volatile memory cell in the first non-volatile memory cell unit, and

a lock section for selectively placing the second non-volatile memory cell unit into a state accessible by the control section or a state inaccessible by the control section,

wherein;

the first non-volatile memory cell unit is in the state accessible by the control section regardless of a state of the signal processing system,

the second non-volatile memory cell unit is in the state inaccessible by the control section when the signal processing system is turned on or reset, and

when the digital signal matches the data stored in any of the at least one non-volatile memory cell in the first non-volatile memory cell unit, the control section controls the lock section to change the state inaccessible by the control section of the second non-volatile memory cell unit into the state accessible by the control section.

8. A signal processing system according to claim 7, wherein the data stored in each of the at least one non-volatile memory cell in the first non-volatile memory cell unit is voice feature amount data of an individual.

9. A signal processing system according to claim 8, wherein when the digital signal matches the data stored in any of the at least one non-volatile memory cell in the first non-volatile memory cell unit, the control section controls the lock section to change the state inaccessible by the control section of at least one non-volatile memory cell in the second non-volatile memory cell unit, which corresponds to the non-volatile memory cell in the first non-volatile memory cell unit storing the data matching the digital signal, into the state accessible by the control section.

10. A signal processing system according to claim 7, wherein the first non-volatile memory cell unit includes a one-time programmable memory.

11. A signal processing system according to claim 1, wherein:

the first program memory area includes a first non-volatile memory cell unit including at least one non-volatile memory cell, and a second non-volatile memory cell unit including at least one non-volatile memory cell, and

the signal processing system further comprises;

a comparison section for comparing the digital signal and data stored in each of the at least one non-volatile memory cell in the first non-volatile memory cell unit,

a lock section for selectively placing each of the first non-volatile memory cell unit and the second non-volatile memory cell unit into a state accessible by the control section or a state inaccessible by the control section, and

a counting section for counting a number of times at which the digital signal does not match the data stored in any of the at least one non-volatile memory cell in the first non-volatile memory cell unit,

wherein;

the first non-volatile memory cell unit is in the state accessible by the control section when the signal processing system is turned on or reset,

the second non-volatile memory cell unit is in the state inaccessible by the control section when the signal processing system is turned on or reset, and

when the number of times counted by the counting section reaches a predetermined value, the control section controls the lock section to change the state accessible by the control section of the first non-volatile memory cell unit into the state inaccessible by the control section and to maintain the second non-volatile memory cell unit in the state inaccessible by the control section.