High-frequency signal interpolation apparatus and high-frequency signal interpolation method

• US 8,301,281 B2
• Filed: 12/25/2007
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kyushu Institute of Technology
• Original Assignee: Kyushu Institute of Technology
• Inventors: Sato, Yasushi, Ryu, Atsuko
• Primary Examiner(s): Briney, III, Walter F
• Application Number:
  US12/448,419
• Publication Number:
  US 20100057230A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,771 Days
• Field of Search: 700/94, 704/500, 381/61, 381/316
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/038 using band spreading techniques

Abstract

A favorable high-frequency signal is generated and practical high-frequency signal interpolation is implemented through simple processing. A digital audio signal reproduced by an instrument, which also carries out compression, is supplied as an original signal to an input terminal 1, and this original signal is then supplied to a digital sample and hold circuit 3 via a band-pass filter 2. The signal from the digital sample and hold circuit 3 is supplied to a ±1 multiplier 6, which then alternately inverts sign bits. The harmonic components of this signal in which the sign bits are inverted alternately are extracted by a high-pass filter (HPF) 7. Meanwhile, the original signal from the input terminal 1 is supplied to a delay circuit 8 equivalent to the processing time consumed by the aforementioned digital sample and hold circuit 3 and related circuits, forming an adjusted, delayed signal. The signals from the high-pass filter (HPF) 7 and the delay circuit 8 are then added by an adder 10, and the resulting added signal is then output to an output terminal 11.

Claims

1. A high-frequency signal interpolation apparatus, comprising:

a band-pass filter, which extracts a signal component of a predetermined frequency band from a sampled original signal supplied to an input terminal;

a digital sample and hold means, which digitally samples and holds the extracted signal component in sync with a clock signal of a lower frequency than that of a sampling signal for the sampled original signal where the clock signal is synchronous to the same sampling signal;

a ±

1 multiplier, which alternately inverts sign bits of digital values output from the digital sample and hold means in sync with the clock signal;

a high-pass filter, which extracts high-frequency components of a signal having sign bits inverted alternately by the ±

1 multiplier; and

an adder, which adds an output signal of the high-pass filter to the original signal supplied to the input terminal.

2. The high-frequency signal interpolation apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the clock signal for digitally sampling and holding is generated by dividing the sampling signal for the original signal.

3. A high-frequency signal interpolation method, comprising the steps of:

extracting a signal component of a predetermined frequency band from a sampled original signal;

digitally sampling and holding the extracted signal component in sync with a clock signal of a lower frequency than that of a sampling signal for the sampled original signal where the clock signal is synchronous to the same sampling signal;

alternately inverting sign bits of digital values digitally sampled and held in sync with the clock signal; and

extracting high-frequency components of a signal having sign bits inverted alternately and adding the resulting extracted high-frequency components to the original signal.