Apparatus for expanding narrowband speech to wideband speech by codebook correspondence of linear mapping functions

• US 5,978,759 A
• Filed: 09/21/1998
• Issued: 11/02/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsushima, Mineo, Norimatsu, Takeshi, Nakatoh, Yoshihisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorvil, Richemond
• Assistant Examiner(s): Storm, Donald L.
• Application Number:
  US09/157,419
• Time in Patent Office: 407 Days
• Field of Search: 704/220, 704/265, 704/500, 704/222, 704/203, 704/200, 704/219, 704/221
• US Class Current: 704/223
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/0232 Processing in the frequency domain
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/038 using band spreading techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/12 the extracted parameters being prediction coefficients

Abstract

Apparatus for expanding the bandwidth of speech signals such that a narrowband speech signal is input and digitized, the spectral envelope information and residual information are extracted from the digitized signal by linear predictive coding analysis, the spectral envelope information is expanded into wideband information by a spectral envelope converter, the residual information is expanded into wideband information by a residual converter, the converted spectral envelope information and residual information are combined to produce a wideband speech signal, frequency information not contained in the input signal is extracted from the obtained wideband speech signal by a filter, and the resulting signal is added to the original digitized input signal, and the obtained signal is converted into an analog signal as the output signal of the apparatus. The apparatus comprises a linear mapping function codebook used for converting spectral parameters, and a weights calculator and an adder for weighing and summing function outputs.

Claims

1. An apparatus for recovering wideband speech from narrowband speech, said apparatus comprising:

a linear predictive coding analyzer for performing a linear predictive coding analysis on an inputted narrowband digital speech signal to thereby obtain a set of narrowband spectral envelope parameters and a residual signal;

a spectral envelope codebook having a plurality of spectral envelope codes, wherein each of the plurality of spectral envelope codes is a predefined set of narrowband spectral envelope parameters;

a linear mapping function codebook having a plurality of linear mapping functions for linearly mapping the set of narrowband envelope parameters to a set of wideband spectral envelope parameters which correspond to the plurality of spectral envelope codes on a one-to-one basis;

a selection means for selecting one linear mapping function from said linear mapping function codebook which provides a minimum distance to the set of narrowband spectral envelope parameters of the inputted narrowband speech signal;

a linear mapping function calculation means for calculating a set of wideband spectral envelope parameters using the selected one linear mapping function and the set of narrowband spectral envelope parameters directly obtained from said linear predictive coding analyzer;

a residual converter for converting the residual signal into a wideband residual signal; and

a linear predictive coding synthesizer for synthesizing the set of wideband spectral envelope parameters calculated and the wideband residual signal so as to obtain a wideband digital speech signal.

2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the spectral envelope parameters obtained by said linear predictive coding analyzer are reflection coefficients.

3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the narrowband spectral envelope parameters obtained by said linear predictive coding analyzer are linear predictive codes.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the narrowband spectral envelope parameters obtained by said linear predictive coding analyzer are Cepstrum coefficients.

5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a filter for extracting frequency components of the wideband digital speech signal which exist outside a bandwidth of the narowband digital speech signal; and

a signal adder for adding a signal outputted from said filter to the inputted narrowband digital speech signal.

6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, further comprising:

a waveform smoothing circuit, arranged between said linear predictive coding synthesizer and said filter, for performing a waveform smoothing processing a n the wideband digital speech signal.

7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein said filter is a FIR filter.

8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein said filter is an IIR filter.

9. An apparatus for recovering wideband speech from narrowband speech, said apparatus comprising:

a linear predictive coding analyzer for performing a linear predictive coding analysis on an inputted narrowband digital speech signal to thereby obtain a set of narrowband spectral envelope parameters and a residual signal;

a spectral envelope codebook having a plurality of spectral envelope codes, wherein each of the plurality of spectral envelope codes is a predefined set of narrowband spectral envelope parameters;

a linear mapping function codebook having a plurality of linear mapping functions for linearly mapping the set of narrowband envelope parameters to a set of wideband spectral envelope parameters which correspond to the plurality of spectral envelope codes on a one-to-one basis;

a distance calculation means for calculating a distance between the set of narrowband spectral envelope parameters and each of the plurality of spectral envelope codes contained in said spectral envelope codebook;

a weights calculations means for calculating weights for the spectral parameters based on, and corresponding to, each of the distances calculated by said distance calculations means;

a linear mapping function calculation means for calculating a plurality of sets of wideband spectral envelope parameters using each of the plurality of linear mapping functions contained in said linear mapping codebook and the set of narrowband spectral envelope parameters directly obtained from said linear predictive coding analyzer;

a linear map result adder for weighing the plurality of sets of wideband spectral envelope parameters using the weights calculated by said weights calculation means and for summing the weighted sets of transformed spectral envelope parameters to obtain a set of wideband spectral envelope parameters;

a residual converter for converting the residual signal into a wideband residual signal; and

a linear predictive coding synthesizer for synthesizing the set of wideband spectral envelope parameters and the wideband residual signal so as to obtain a wideband digital speech signal.