Qualcomm Incorporated

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.

Alexy Joseph

Siddartha Shaik

Ravi Alamanda

Anssi Haverinen

Raghavendra Bhat Noojady Krishna

Harikishan Desineni

Ayan Ghosh

Srinivas Krovvidi

Sridhar Nomula

Aniketkumar Lata

Vivek Mehta

Mallikarjuna G B

SathishKumar Mani

A Bluetooth component (e.g., a Bluetooth chip) and a digital signal processing (DSP) component (e.g., an audio DSP) of a device may directly handle link condition sensing (e.g., link quality monitoring) and audio bitrate determination. The Bluetooth component may perform link condition sensing (e.g., link quality monitoring) and the Bluetooth component and/or the DSP component may perform link condition processing and audio bitrate determination. Encoding scheme (e.g., audio bitrate) determination and modification may be performed independently by the Bluetooth component and DSP component, such that encoding schemes may be adapted to link conditions while other hardware (e.g., connected to the DSP) is operating in a low power or sleep state. In some cases, the Bluetooth component may sense link conditions and transmit bitrate information directly to audio encoding blocks of the DSP component.

Power optimized link quality detection and feedback

A compressed over pulse-code modulation (PCM) (CoP) format (e.g., for data transfer between a Bluetooth component and an audio digital signal processor (ADSP) component) may be modified to transport additional metadata (e.g., sideband data). Sideband data may be transported to convey parameter control information (e.g., control information for codec parameter control interfaces, such as information for quality mode changes), in band data (e.g., data specific parameters, such as timestamps for playback timing control and synchronization purposes), etc. Sideband data may be transported (e.g., communicated) over an interface between a Bluetooth component and an ADSP component while an applications processor is operating in a low power state or sleep mode. According to some aspects, the modified CoP format (e.g., a sideband packet) may include a sideband identification (ID) field and a sideband data payload (e.g., where the sideband ID field indicates the structure of a corresponding sideband data payload).

Power efficient metadata transport signaling mechanism for codec control and configuration

Provided are a method and device for audio post-processing. The method may comprise receiving, at a first processor, an audio signal, detecting, at the first processor, a plurality of post-processing modules for altering the audio signal, and creating, based on information identifying functions of the plurality of post-processing modules, an optimized acceleration module. It may further comprise sending, through the optimized acceleration module, a buffer packet of the audio signal along a single data path to a second processor and post-processing, at the second processor, the buffer packet of the audio signal through each of a plurality of associated post-processing modules that correspond to the post-processing modules on the first processor, controlling each associated post-processing module via control paths from each corresponding post-processing module, and receiving, at the first processor, a post-processed buffer packet of the audio signal via a single return data path.

Efficient load sharing and accelerating of audio post-processing

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Alexy Joseph