Sub-band speech coding system

• US 7,260,523 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2000
• Issued: 08/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Texas Instruments, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Texas Instruments, Inc.
• Inventors: McCree, Alan V., Paksoy, Erdal
• Primary Examiner(s): ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH
• Application Number:
  US09/732,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20020072899A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,448 Days
• Field of Search: 704/220, 704/229, 704/266, 704/205, 704/225, 704/226, 704/219, 704/230, 704/500
• US Class Current: 704/220
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0208 Subband vocoders
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/038 using band spreading techniques

Abstract

An improved sub-band speech coding system is provided by subdividing signals into a lower an higher subband, downsampling the lower subband before coding and coding the higher subband without downsampling. The decoder includes decoding and upsampling of the lower subband and decoding the higher subband and adding the higher subband to the lower subband.

Claims

1. A wide band signal coder comprising:

means for subdividing signals over a bandwidth into a lower subband and a higher subband signals,

a downsampler for downsampling said lower subband signals, said downsampling by a factor of n/m where n and m are both integers greater than 1,

a low band speech coder coupled to said downsampler for encoding said downsampled lower subband signals, and

a highband coder for coding said higher subband signal without downsampling, and

a combiner for combining said higher and lower subband signals.

2. The coder of claim 1, wherein said combiner includes a bandpass filter coupled to said highband coder to bandpass said higher subband signal to complement the lower subband.

3. The coder of claim 1, wherein said combiner includes upsampling said encoded lower subband signals.

4. The coder of claim 1, wherein said low band speech coder is a CELP coder.

5. The coder of claim 1, wherein said highband coder is an LPC coder.

6. The coder of claim 1, wherein said highband coder is random noise.

7. The coder of claim 1, wherein said highband coder is noise excited LPC.

8. The coder of claim 1, wherein said highband coder is gain-matched analysis by synthesis.

9. The coder of claim 1, wherein said highband coder is multi-pulse coding.

10. A speech coding system comprising:

means for subdividing signals over a bandwidth into a lower subband and a higher subband signals,

a downsampler for downsampling said lower subband signals,

a low band speech coder coupled to said downsampler for encoding said downsampled lower subband signals,

a highband coder for coding said higher subband signal without downsampling;

a bandpass filter coupled to said highband coder to bandpass said higher subband signal to complement the lower subband;

a first decoder for decoding said encoded lower subband signals;

means for upsampling and lowpass filtering said lower subband signals to the same rate as the higher subband signals;

a second decoder for decoding said higher subband signals and bandpass filtering said higher subband signals; and

an adder for summing said lower subband signals and said higher subband signals.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein said low band coder is a CELP coder.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein said highband coder is random noise and said highband decoder includes a gain-scaled random noise generator.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein said highband coder is noise excited LPC coder and said decoder includes, a gain-scaled random noise generator and the output is applied to an LPC synthesis filter.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein said highband coder includes a gain-matched by synthesis coder and the highband decoder includes a codebook with allowable excitation vectors, a multiplier and an LPC filter.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein said coder is a multi-pulse coder and the decoder includes gain-scaling an approximation waveform that is gain-scaled and filtered by an LPC synthesis filter.

16. A wideband speech decoder system comprising:

a first decoder for decoding encoded lower subband signals;

a second highband decoder for decoding higher subband signals at a higher sampling rate than said lower subband signals;

a converter for converting said lower subband signals to the same sampling rate as the higher band signals, said converting by a factor of m/n where n and m are both integers greater than 1; and

an adder for summing said lower subband signals and said higher subband signals.

17. The decoder system of claim 16, wherein said second decoder includes a gain-scaled random noise generator.

18. The decoder system of claim 16, wherein said second decoder includes a gain-scaled random noise generator and the output applied to an LPC synthesis filter.

19. The decoder system of claim 16, wherein said second decoder includes a codebook with allowable excitation vectors, a multiplier and an LPC filter.

20. The decoder system of claim 16, wherein said second decoder includes a multipulse waveform that is gain-scaled and filtered by an LPC synthesis filter.