System for transmitting voice signal

• US 4,757,517 A
• Filed: 03/27/1987
• Issued: 07/12/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: KDDI Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kokusai Densin Denwa Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Yatsuzuka, Yohtaro
• Primary Examiner(s): Safourek, Benedict V.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US07/031,393
• Time in Patent Office: 473 Days
• Field of Search: 375/25, 375/38, 375/122, 375/27, 375/102, 370/118, 381/29, 381/31, 358/133, 358/135
• US Class Current: 375/245
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/06 Determination or coding of the spectral characteristics, e.g. of the short-term prediction coefficients
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/24 Variable rate codecs, e.g. for generating different qualities using a scalable representation such as hierarchical encoding or layered encoding
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/038 using band spreading techniques

Abstract

A system for transmitting a voice signal is disclosed, in which an input voice signal is predivided into low- and high- frequency residual signals. The low-frequency residual signal is transmitted in the form of waveform codes with higher possible fidelity and lower possible quality deterioration through utilization of the Adaptive Predicture Coding (APC) system or Multi Pulse Excited Coding (MPEC) system, while information on the short-time high-frequency spectrum is extracted from the high-frequency residual signal and is transmitted as information for use in the reproduction of the voice signal on the receiving side.

Claims

1. A system for transmitting a voice signal comprising means having filter means for dividing an input voice signal into a low-frequency voice signal and a high-frequency voice signal, means for developing a predictive residual signal of the low-frequency voice signal, a waveform coder for coding said predictive signal, a waveform coder for coding said predictive residual signal in order to minimize the deterioration of its quality, transmission means for transmitting the coded predictive residual signal, means for developing from the high-frequency voice signal information indicative of a short-time frequency spectrum thereof, coding means for coding the indicative information for transmission by said transmission means, said waveform coder comprising an adaptive quantizer for obtaining a coded low-frequency voice signal to be transmitted, a short-time predictor for obtaining a short-time prediction value from the low-frequency voice signal, a long-time predictor for obtaining a long-time prediction value from the low-frequency voice signal, first subtraction means for substracting the short-time prediction value and the long-time prediction value from the low-frequency voice signal to obtain a residual signal, a dequantizer for dequantizing the coded low-frequency voice signal to obtain a quantized final residual signal, saecond substraction means for substracting the quantized final residual signal from an input of the adaptive quantizer to obtain quantized noise, a noise shaping filter for obatining shaped noise, and third subtraction means for subtracting the shaped noise from the residual signal to obtain a final residual signal to be employed as the input of the adaptive quantizer.

2. A system for transmitting a voice signal according to claim, 1, in which said information indicative of the high-frequency voice signal is coefficient information and power ratio information, a short spectrum analyzer for obtaining said coefficient information from the high frequency voice signal, and said coding means comprising a coefficient coder, the power ratio information being obtained by comparing in a comparator the high-frequency voice signal with the low-frequency voice signal and coded by said coding means.