Digital audio companding and error conditioning
First Claim
1. A system for processing audio signals, comprisingmeans for providing a gain word for a first digital audio signal sample;
- means for processing said first digital audio signal sample with said gain word in accordance with a first predetermined process to compress said first digital audio signal sample;
means for processing said gain word and said compressed digital audio signal sample in accordance with a second predetermined process to provide a reproduced digital audio signal sample;
means for calculating the effect of said first and second predetermined processes upon the accuracy of the reproduced digital audio signal sample; and
means for processing the first digital audio signals ample in accordance with said calculated effect to provide a corrected digital audio signal sample for said compression in accordance with said first predetermined process.
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Abstract
A system for companding digital audio signal samples processes the digital audio signal samples to correct errors induced by the compression and expansion processes. These errors are calculated prior to compressing the samples. Such errors are calculated in accordance with a predetermined compression process and a predetermined expansion process; and the digital audio signal samples are corrected in accordance with such calculations prior to compression. The compression process includes providing a 3-bit gain word for a block of 70 samples. The gain word is computed in accordance with the position of the most significant "1" bit in the sample(s) having the peak magnitude. Each individual sample is processed in accordance with the block gain word to compress the sample by reducing the number of magnitude bits. The error calculation process includes calculating an error signal by subtracting a calculated reproduced digital audio signal sample from the digital audio signal sample to be compressed, filtering the error signal by noise-spectral filtering and adding the filtered error signal to the next-providing digital audio signal sample to provide a corrected digital audio signal sample for compression. The error calculation process also includes calculating an error value based upon the effect of using a single gain word for compressing a block of samples. The error value is subtracted from the corrected digital audio signal sample prior to compression. The gain word is forward error corrected by (5,1) encoding to enable detection and correction of both single-bit and double-bit errors in transfer by majority voting. The sign bit and the most significant magnitude bits of the compressed samples are forward error corrected to enable detection and correction of single-bit errors in transfer and to enable detection and concealment of double-bit errors in transfer.
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15 Claims
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1. A system for processing audio signals, comprising
means for providing a gain word for a first digital audio signal sample; -
means for processing said first digital audio signal sample with said gain word in accordance with a first predetermined process to compress said first digital audio signal sample; means for processing said gain word and said compressed digital audio signal sample in accordance with a second predetermined process to provide a reproduced digital audio signal sample; means for calculating the effect of said first and second predetermined processes upon the accuracy of the reproduced digital audio signal sample; and means for processing the first digital audio signals ample in accordance with said calculated effect to provide a corrected digital audio signal sample for said compression in accordance with said first predetermined process. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for processing audio signals, comprising
means for providing a gain word for a first digital audio signal sample; -
means for processing said first digital audio signals ample with said gain word in accordance with a first predetermined process to compress said first digital audio signal sample for transfer to a decoder together with said gain word; means at said decoder for processing said gain word and said compressed first digital audio signal sample in accordance with a second predetermined process to provide a reproduced digital audio signal sample; means for encoding each bit of the computed gain word for said transfer by repeating each bit five times and; means for decoding each bit of the encoded gain word by majority vote processing of the five repeated bits to thereby correct any single or double errors in the transfer of each bit of the gain word in accordance with said majority vote. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for processing audio signals, comprising
means for providing a gain word for a block of first digital audio signal samples by detecting the peak first digital audio signal sample magnitude within a block of a predetermined number of first digital audio signal samples, and computing the gain word for said block of samples in accordance with the position of the most significant "1" bit in the first digital audio signal sample(s) having the detected peak magnitude; -
means for processing each said first digital audio signal sample of said block with said gain word in accordance with a first predetermined process to compress said first digital audio signal samples; means for processing the gain word and the compressed first digital audio signal samples in accordance with a second predetermine process to provide reproduced digital audio signal samples; means for calculating the effect of using a single gain word for said block of samples upon the accuracy of each reproduced digital audio signal sample; and means for processing the first digital audio signal samples in accordance with said calculated effect to correct each digital audio signal sample for said compression in accordance with said first predetermined process.
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