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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2018
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 19/018 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G10K 11/16 (2006.01); G10L 19/012 (2013.01); H03G 3/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/165 (2013.01); G10K 11/16 (2013.01); G10L 19/012 (2013.01); G10L 19/018 (2013.01); H03G 3/341 (2013.01); H03G 3/348 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for handling silence in audio streams are disclosed. In one aspect, a transmitter detects a halt in an audio stream. After detection of the halt in the audio stream, the transmitter embeds a silence signal into the audio stream and transmits the silence signal to associated receivers. The associated receivers may respond to the embedded silence signal by 'playing' silence or by using the silence signal to activate a silence protocol. In either event, the associated receivers do not receive the original audio halt and do not produce an unwanted audio artifact.