Transcoding EVRC to G.729ab

• US 20050075868A1
• Filed: 09/29/2004
• Published: 04/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Texas Instruments, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Texas Instruments, Inc.
• Inventors: Rabha, Pankaj K.
• Granted Patent: US 7,519,532 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/219
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/173 Transcoding, i.e. converting between two coded representations avoiding cascaded coding-decoding

Abstract

Transcoding from EVRC to G.729ab with LSP parameters interpolated from EVRC to G.729ab, EVRC pitch used as input to G.729ab closed-loop pitch search, and G.729ab fixed codebook pulses found from a search limited to positions of EVRC fixed codebook pulses together with positions of target-impulse correlation maxima on the subframe tracks or full track search if no EVRC pulses.

Claims

1. A method of transcoding, comprising:

(a) decoding input first frames, said first frames encoded with a first ACELP method;

(b) finding linear prediction coefficients and pitch delays for second frames of a second ACELP method using said first frames;

(c) finding fixed codebook vectors for said second frames by searching over allowed pulse positions, wherein (i) said allowed pulse positions are less than all pulse positions in said second frames, (ii) on each track of one of said second frames said allowed pulse positions include pulse positions of first ACELP fixed codebook vectors for said first frames, and (iii) on each track of one of said second frames said allowed pulse positions include the position of the maximum magnitude of a correlation vector on said each track; and

(d) encoding said linear prediction coefficients, pitch delays, and fixed codebook vectors with said second ACELP method.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

(a) each of said second frames has 40 samples partitioned into 5 tracks of 8 samples; and

(b) each of said tracks has at most 3 allowed pulse positions.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

(a) each of said second frames has 40 samples partitioned into 5 tracks of 8 samples; and

(b) each of said 5 tracks has at most 2 allowed pulse positions when a first ACELP codebook vector pulse is on said each track.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

(a) the finding linear prediction coefficients of step (b) of claim 1 includes interpolation of line spectral pairs of said first frames.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

(a) the finding pitch delays of step (b) of claim 1 includes using pitch delays of said first frames as inputs for closed-loop pitch searches.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

(a) said first ACELP method is EVRC; and

(b) said second ACELP method is G.729ab.