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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shuichi Kawama, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshiji Fujimoto, Nara, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
381 36 ;
Abstract
A speech analyzing and synthesizing apparatus samples a speech signal and its coding section outputs one or more codes of variable length per sampling according to the differential value between two mutually adjacent sampled signals to represent this differential value. The apparatus also includes a decoding section which decodes the outputted codes to obtain the differential value and a limiting circuit for limiting the number of outputtable codes per sample according to the differential value and codes representing differential values previously outputted from the coding section.