Method for improvement of G.723.1 processing time and speech quality and for reduction of bit rate in CELP vocoder and CELP vococer using the same

• US 6,687,668 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2000
• Issued: 02/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CS Technology
• Original Assignee: CS Technology
• Inventors: Kim, Jeong Jin, Bae, Myung Jin, Jang, Kyung A, Shim, Min Kyu, Hong, Seong Hoon, Sung, Yoo Na
• Primary Examiner(s): MCFADDEN, SUSAN IRIS
• Application Number:
  US09/749,786
• Publication Number:
  US 20010008995A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,132 Days
• Field of Search: 704/223, 704/222, 704/221, 704/220, 704/219, 709/206
• US Class Current: 704/223
• 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 19/26 Pre-filtering or post-filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2019/0013 Codebook search algorithms

Abstract

A method of searching an MP-MLQ fixed codebook through bit predetermination includes the steps of generating a target vector with amplitude, reducing time to search an optimal pulse array through the bit predetermination and searching all of pulses if two errors have an identical value.

Claims

1. A method of searching an MP-MLQ (Multi Pulse Maximum Likelihood Quantization) fixed codebook through predetermination of a grid bit for predicting the positions of pulses during high bit rate decoding of voice signals in a CELP (Code Excited Linear Prediction) vocoder, which reduces process time of G.723.1, the method comprising the steps of:

generating a target vector divided into odd order and even order pulses;

determining an amplitude of the target vector;

generating composite sound by using the target vector;

comparing the composite sound with an original sound without DC;

determining a grid bit by the comparison;

checking whether the grid bit is zero;

searching the even order pulses when the grid bit is zero;

checking whether the grid bit is one (1);

searching the odd order pulses when the grid bit is one (1); and

searching all of the even and odd order pulses when the grid bit is not zero or one.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the amplitude of the target vector is controlled to be the same for even and odd orders.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the grid bit determining step compares an error value of each grid bit and then determines the grid bit according to $\mathrm{Grid}=\{\begin{array}{c}0,\mathrm{if}\end{array}$

 

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4. A CELP (Code Excited Linear Prediction) vocoder implemented by the method described in claim 1.