Voice encoder and voice encoding method

• US 6,988,065 B1
• Filed: 08/23/2000
• Issued: 01/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/1999
• 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, Yasunaga, Kazutoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH
• Application Number:
  US09/807,427
• Time in Patent Office: 1,973 Days
• Field of Search: 704/219, 704/220, 704/207
• US Class Current: 704/219
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/083 the excitation function being an excitation gain G10L25/90 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/09 Long term prediction, i.e. removing periodical redundancies, e.g. by using adaptive codebook or pitch predictor
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/16 Vocoder architecture

Abstract

A vector code book (1094) where representative samples of vectors to be quantized are stored is created. Each vector is made up of three elements: an AC gain, a value corresponding the logarithm of an SC gain, and an adjustment coefficient of the prediction coefficient of SC. Coefficients for predictive coding are stored in a prediction coefficient storage section (1095). The coefficients are the prediction coefficients of MA, and two kinds of coefficients, AC and SC for the order of prediction are stored. A parameter calculating section (1091) calculates a parameter necessary for distance calculation from an auditory sensation weighting input voice, an adaptive sound source subjected to auditory weighting LPC synthesis, a probabilistic sound source subjected to auditory sensation weighting LPC synthesis, a decoded vector (AC, SC, adjustment coefficient) stored in a decoded vector storage section (1096), and the prediction coefficients (AC, SC) stored in the prediction coefficient storage section (1095).

Claims

1. A speech encoder comprising a dispersed-pulse codebook that generates a vector by convoluting a vector containing one or more one non-zero elements, elements other than non-zero elements have values of zero, and a fixed waveform comprising a dispersion pattern, wherein said dispersed-pulse codebook has a configuration different from a configuration of the dispersed-pulse codebook on the speech decoder side.

2. The speech encoder according to claim 1, wherein a dispersion pattern storage section, which comprises a component of the dispersed-pulse codebook, stores dispersion patterns different from dispersion patterns stored in a dispersion pattern storage section on the speech decoder side.

3. The speech encoder according to claim 2, wherein the dispersion pattern storage section stores dispersion patterns obtained by simplifying and selecting dispersion patterns stored in the dispersion pattern storage section on the speech decoder side.

4. The speech encoder according to claim 2, wherein the dispersion pattern storage section stores dispersion patterns obtained by replacing components of dispersion patterns stored in the dispersion pattern storage section on the speech decoder side with zero at certain intervals.

5. The speech encoder according to claim 2, wherein the dispersion pattern storage section stores dispersion patterns obtained by replacing components of dispersion patterns stored in the dispersion pattern storage section on the speech decoder side with zero for every N samples, where N is a natural number.

6. The speech encoder according to claim 5, wherein the dispersion pattern storage section stores dispersion patterns obtained by replacing components of dispersion patterns stored in the dispersion pattern storage section on the speech decoder side with zero for every 1 sample.

7. The speech encoder according to claim 2, wherein the dispersion pattern storage section stores dispersion patterns obtained by truncating components of dispersion patterns stored in the dispersion pattern storage section on the speech decoder side at an appropriate length.

8. The speech encoder according to claim 2, wherein the dispersion pattern storage section stores dispersion patterns obtained by truncating components of dispersion patterns stored in the dispersion pattern storage section on the speech decoder side at a length of N samples, where N is a natural number.

9. The speech encoder according to claim 2, wherein the dispersion pattern storage section stores dispersion patterns obtained by truncating components of dispersion patterns stored in the dispersion pattern storage section on the speech decoder side at a half length.

10. A speech decoder that decodes a speech signal having a speech code generated by the speech encoder according to claim 1.

11. A signal processing processor containing a software program that implements the speech decoder according to claim 10.

12. A signal processing processor containing a software program that implements the speech encoder according to claim 1.

13. A communication base station equipped with the signal processing processor according to claim 12.

14. A radio communication system that connects the communication base station according to claim 13 with a communication terminal via a radio network.

15. A communication terminal equipped with the signal processing processor according to claim 12.

16. A speech encoding/decoding system comprising a speech encoder and a speech decoder each having a dispersed-pulse codebook in a configuration different from each other.

17. The speech encoding/decoding system according to claim 16, wherein the difference in the configuration of the dispersed-pulse codebook between the speech encoder and the speech decoder lies in the shape of dispersion patterns stored in the respective dispersed-pulse codebooks.

18. The speech encoding/decoding system according to claim 17, wherein the shapes of dispersion patterns of the speech encoder are obtained by simplifying a shape of dispersion patterns of the speech decoder.

19. The speech encoding/decoding system according to claim 16, wherein the shapes of dispersion patterns of the speech encoder are obtained by replacing components of the dispersion patterns of the speech decoder with zero at appropriate intervals.

20. The speech encoding/decoding system according to claim 16, wherein the shapes of dispersion patterns of the speech encoder are obtained by replacing components of the dispersion patterns of the speech decoder with zero every N samples, where N is a natural number.

21. The speech encoding/decoding system according to claim 20, wherein the shapes of dispersion patterns of the speech encoder are obtained by replacing components of the dispersion patterns of the speech decoder with zero every 1 sample.

22. The speech encoding/decoding system according to claim 16, wherein the shapes of dispersion patterns of the speech encoder are obtained by truncating components of the dispersion patterns of the speech decoder at an appropriate length.

23. The speech encoding/decoding system according to claim 16, wherein the shapes of dispersion patterns of the speech encoder are obtained by truncating components of the dispersion patterns of the speech decoder at a length of N samples, where N is a natural number.

24. The speech encoding/decoding system according to claim 16, wherein the shapes of dispersion patterns of the speech encoder are obtained by truncating components of the dispersion patterns of the speech decoder at a half length.