Method and apparatus of wireless audio playback system

• US 20060253279A1
• Filed: 05/04/2005
• Published: 11/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Taiwan Imaging Tek Corporation
• Original Assignee: Taiwan Imaging Tek Corporation
• Inventors: Sung, Chih-Ta Star
• Application Number:
  US11/120,808
• Publication Number:
  US 20060253279A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/221
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/00 Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis in musical instruments G10H
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/005 Correction of errors induced by the transmission channel, if related to the coding algorithm

Abstract

Audio compression/decompression codec is applied to reduce the data rate during wireless transmission and receiving resulting in higher efficiency of transmission bandwidth which allows scheduled time to turn on and shut off the transmission and receiving devices. The average values of a predetermined amount of audio samples within a pack of audio are inserted into the compressed audio data as references in recovering the audio data. When small amount of audio data are lost during transmission, some recovered audio samples are repeated to represent the lost data within a pack of audio data. Should the variance of a certain amount of data samples are high, some un-compressed audio data will be packed and sent out to maintain the audio quality.

Claims

1. An apparatus of audio playback system, comprising:

an audio source which generates the output data stream of the original audio sampled;

an audio compression device for reducing the amount of audio data;

a wireless transmission device transferring the compressed audio data through the air media;

a wireless receiving device receiving the compressed audio data through the air media;

an audio decompression device for recovering the audio data stream; and

an audio playback system which plays the audio stream.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the stream audio samples are separately packed into plurality of packs of audio data with each pack of data independently compressed.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the original audio stream is packed into packs of audio data with each pack of data having variable length of audio samples.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the amount of pack of audio data samples is determined by the variance of that pack of audio data with shorter pack having larger variance and longer pack having smaller variance.

5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein a predetermined amount of the original audio samples are calculated to generate the average value as reference for recovering the corresponding audio data.

6. A method of audio data playback through wireless data transmission, comprising:

synchronizing the compressed audio data flowing of wireless transmission and receiving;

turning on and off the wireless transmission device and receiving device according to the predetermined time schedule;

turning on and off the audio compression engine according to the predetermined time schedule; and

turning on and off the audio decompression engine according to the predetermined time schedule;

7. The method of claim 6, wherein a predetermined amount of the compressed packs of audio data with variable length will be sent out by a transmission device;

8. The method of claim 6, wherein a predetermined amount of the compressed packs of audio data with variable length will be sent out by a transmission device;

9. The method of claim 6, wherein un-compressed pack of audio audio with variable amount of samples will be sent out by a transmission device;

10. The method of claim 6, wherein a transmission device submits the predetermined amount of the compressed packs of audio data and decides the time of turning on and off the device;

11. The method of claim 6, wherein a receiving device receives the predetermined amount of the compressed packs of audio data and decides the time of turning on and off the device;

12. The method of claim 6, wherein an audio compression device compresses the predetermined amount of the audio samples and decides the time of turning on and off the device;

13. The method of claim 6, wherein an audio decompression device decompresses the predetermined amount of the audio samples and decides the time of turning on and off the device;

14. A method of error correction in audio data playback through wireless data transmission, comprising:

receiving the compressed audio data through a wireless receiver;

checking the amount of the compressed audio data to determine whether audio data loss happened or not;

if data loss happened, taking a procedure from the following error correction mechanisms;

requesting the transmission device to re-send the lost pack of audio data;

or

repeating at least one of the recovered audio sample to represent the lost audio data within a pack of audio;

or

repeating the last audio sample of previous pack of audio if the length of pack of audio data is shorter than a predetermined amount of audio samples;

or

taking the inserted average values as references to recover the targeted lost audio samples;

or

taking the inserted average values to represent the targeted lost audio samples;

15. The method of claim 14, wherein when the amount of audio data loss within a pack of audio data is within a predetermined threshold number, the decompression engine finishes the decoding procedure and repeats the last audio sample to fill up the length of the audio pack.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein when plurality of audio data lost within a pack of audio data, in an average duration time, the recovered audio samples are repeated to represent the lost audio samples.