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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 1985
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Krishnamoorthy Virupaksha, Brookeville, MD (US);
Henri G Suyderhoud, Potomac, MD (US);
Assignee:
Communications Satellite Corporation, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ; H03K / ; G06G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
328150 ; 328151 ; 328147 ; 328135 ;
Abstract
An adaptive gain control is provided at the input of a Variable Rate Nearly Instantaneous Companding (VRNIC) processor to adjust the gain of low level speech signals so that the transmission bit rate and SNR will remain substantially the same for low signal levels as for high signal levels.