Voice encoding device, voice decoding device, recording medium for recording program for realizing voice encoding/decoding and mobile communication device

• US 6,687,666 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2000
• Issued: 02/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 12, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Morii, Toshiyuki, Ehara, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorvil, Richemond
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lerner, Martin
• Application Number:
  US09/729,229
• Publication Number:
  US 20010001142A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: 704/207, 704/221, 704/222, 704/223, 704/225, 704/219, 704/220, 704/230
• US Class Current: 704/207
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/12 the excitation function being a code excitation, e.g. in code excited linear prediction [CELP] vocoders
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2019/0005 Multi-stage vector quantisation

Abstract

A CELP type voice encoding device and a CELP type encoding device. Both the CELP type encoding device and the CELP type encoding device have a noise code book that can be searched in two modes in accordance with linear predictive analysis results, a pitch gain and a pitch cycle, all of which are obtained as analysis results of an input voice. Also the number of pulses forming a noise code vector is switched between a first case where a variation in pitch cycle is small througtout continuous sub-frames and in a second case where the variation is not small througtout continuous sub-frames.

Claims

1. A CELP type voice encoding device comprising:

a noise codebook which can be searched in two modes;

means for selecting one of said two modes in accordance with linear predictive analysis results, a pitch gain and a pitch cycle all of which are obtained as analysis results of an input voice wherein the number of pulses forming a noise code vector is switched between a first case where a variation in pitch cycle is small throughout continuous sub-frames and in a second case where the variation is not small throughout continuous sub-frames; and

a sound source generating portion for quantizing a pitch gain using a multi-stage quantizer wherein a first stage quantizer quantizes a calculated pitch gain which is obtained immediately after an adaptive codebook is searched, while a second or higher stage quantizer quantizes a difference between the pitch gain which is determined through a closed loop searching after a sound source searching is completed and a quantized pitch gain which is obtained by said first stage quantizer, and said quantized pitch gain which is quantized by said first stage quantizer is used to select one of said two modes.

2. A CELP type voice encoding device comprising:

a noise codebook which can be searched in two modes; and

means for selecting one of said two modes in accordance with linear predictive analysis results, a pitch gain and a pitch cycle all of which are obtained as analysis results of an input voice wherein the number of pulses forming a noise code vector is switched between a first case where a variation in pitch cycle is small throughout continuous sub-frames and in a second case where the variation is not small throughout continuous sub-frames;

wherein each of said two modes is arranged to search a purse codebook with a fixed search position and a search position determined by using pitch parameters.

3. A CELP type voice encoding method, comprising the steps of:

obtaining a linear predictive analysis results, a pitch gain and a pitch cycle by analyzing an input voice;

selecting one of two modes in accordance with said linear predictive analysis results, said pitch gain and said pitch cycle, wherein the number of pulses forming a noise code vector is switched between a first case where a variation in pitch cycle is small throughout continuous sub-frames and in a second case where the variation is not small throughout continuous sub-frames, thereby a noise code book operates according to a selected mode; and

using a sound source generating portion for quantizing a pitch gain using a multi-stage quantizer and such that a first stage quantizer quantizes a calculated pitch gain which is obtained immediately after an adaptive codebook is searched, while a second or higher stage quantizer quantizes a difference between the pitch gain which is determined through a closed loop searching after a sound source searching is completed and a quantized pitch gain which is obtained by said first stage quantizer, and said quantized pitch gain which is quantized by said first stage quantizer is used to select one of said two modes.

4. A CELP type voice encoding method, comprising the steps of:

obtaining a linear predictive analysis results, a pitch gain and a pitch cycle by analyzing an input voice; and

selecting one of two modes in accordance with said linear predictive analysis results, said pitch gain and said pitch cycle, wherein the number of pulses forming a noise code vector is switched between a first case where a variation in pitch cycle is small throughout continuous sub-frames and in a second case where the variation is not small throughout continuous sub-frames, thereby a noise code book operates according to a selected mode;

said selecting step being performed to select one of said two modes in which a pulse code book is searched with a fixed search position and a search position determined by using pitch parameters.

5. A CELP type voice decoding device, comprising:

a noise codebook which can be searched in two modes;

means for selecting one of said two modes in accordance with linear predictive analysis results, a pitch gain and a pitch cycle all of which are obtained as analysis results of an input voice wherein the number of pulses forming a noise code vector is switched between a first case where a variation in pitch cycle is small throughout continuous sub-frames and in a second case where the variation is not small throughout continuous sub-frames; and

a sound source generating portion for quantizing a pitch gain using a multi-stage quantizer wherein a first stage quantizer quantizes a calculated pitch gain which is obtained immediately after an adaptive codebook is searched, while a second or higher stage quantizer quantizes a difference between the pitch gain which is determined through a closed loop searching after a sound source searching is completed and a quantized pitch gain which is obtained by said first stage quantizer, and said quantized pitch gain which is quantized by said first stage quantizer is used to select one of said two modes.

6. A CELP type voice decoding device, comprising:

a noise codebook which can be searched in two modes; and

means for selecting one of said two modes in accordance with linear predictive analysis results, a pitch gain and a pitch cycle all of which are obtained as analysis results of an input voice wherein the number of pulses forming a noise code vector is switched between a first case where a variation in pitch cycle is small throughout continuous sub-frames and in a second case where the variation is not small throughout continuous sub-frames;

wherein each of said two modes is arranged to search a pulse codebook with a fixed search position and a search position determined by using pitch parameters.

7. A CELP type voice decoding method, comprising the steps of:

obtaining a linear predictive analysis results, a pitch gain and a pitch cycle by analyzing an input voice;

selecting one of two modes in accordance with said linear predictive analysis results, said pitch gain and said pitch cycle, wherein the number of pulses forming a noise code vector is switched between a first case where a variation in pitch cycle is small throughout continuous sub-frames and in a second case where the variation is not small throughout continuous sub-frames, thereby a noise code book operates according to a selected mode; and

using a sound source generating portion for quantizing a pitch gain using a multi-stage quantizer and such that a first stage quantizer quantizes a calculated pitch gain which is obtained immediately after an adaptive codebook is searched, while a second or higher stage quantizer quantizes a difference between the pitch gain which is determined through a closed loop searching after a sound source searching is completed and a quantized pitch gain which is obtained by said first stage quantizer, and said quantized pitch gain which is quantized by said first stage quantizer is used to select one of said two modes.

8. A CELP type voice decoding method, comprising the steps of:

obtaining a linear predictive analysis results, a pitch gain and a pitch cycle by analyzing an input voice; and

selecting one of two modes in accordance with said linear predictive analysis results, said pitch gain and said pitch cycle, wherein the number of pulses forming a noise code vector is switched between a first case where a variation in pitch cycle is small throughout continuous sub-frames and in a second case where the variation is not small throughout continuous sub-frames, thereby a noise code book operates according to a selected mode;

said selecting step being performed to select one of said two modes in which a pulse code book is searched with a fixed search position and a search position determined by using pitch parameters.