At&t Bell Laboratories

American Telephone & Telegraph Co., At&t Bell Laboratories

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Thomas W Goeddel

Guido Bertocci

An unknown voiceband digital data modem signal is classified as being generated by one of a plurality of possible digital data modem signal sources, e.g., CCITT V.29, CCITT V.32, CCITT V.33 or the like digital data modems. Classification is achieved by employing a blind, i.e., self-recovering, adaptive equalizer to remove effects of linear channel impairments and to generate a sequence of magnitude estimates at the symbol rate of the unknown voiceband digital data modem signal. The sequence of magnitude estimates is compared to predetermined representations of known possible voiceband digital data modem signals and the results of the comparison are used to identify the digital data modem signal source of the signal. In one example, the predetermined representations are templates of conditional density functions of magnitude estimates obtained from known voiceband digital data modem signals generated by corresponding digital data modem signal sources. The symbol rate detector detects bit rate and type of modulation.

Classifier for high speed voiceband digital data modem signals

In an ADPCM coder and decoder including a so-called locking-unlocking adaptation speed control, the adaptation speed is locked to a very slow, almost constant, speed of adaptation for voiceband data and partial band energy signals, i.e., tones and tone like signals, and is unlocked to achieve a fast speed of adaptation for speech. When a so-called partial band energy signal is being inputted, the adaptation speed is biased toward the unlocked state and when a transition occurs from a partial band energy signal to another such signal, the adaptation speed is set to the totally unlocked state and coefficients of an adaptive predictor are set to prescribed values. This is done in both the coder and decoder to minimize generation of impulse noise in the decoder output.

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