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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 1992
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1991
Donald J Hejna, Jr, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Bruce R Musicus, Arlington, MA (US);
Andrew S Crowe, San Jose, CA (US);
ROLM Systems, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Method for time-scale modification ('TSM') of a signal, for example, a voice signal, wherein starting positions of blocks in an input signal, referred to as analysis windows, are varied and an output signal is reconstructed by overlapping analysis windows using fixed window offsets, i.e., the duration of overlap between analysis windows is fixed during reconstruction. This is done by searching for segments of the input signal which are similar to the previous portion of the output signal. In one embodiment of the present invention a cross-correlation is used as a similarity measure to evaluate such similarity and the cross-correlation uses a fixed, predetermined minimum number of samples. The starting position of the analysis window which results in the greatest similarity in overlapping regions is determined as the starting position which provides the largest value of cross-correlation in the overlapping regions. Several cross-correlations are evaluated by shifting the analysis window over a predetermined number of samples, removing the first shifted samples in the evaluation each time, and using the same, predetermined number of samples in the evaluation to determine the 'best' starting position for an analysis window. Finally, the predetermined number of samples from the beginning of the analysis window are averaged with the predetermined number of samples from the end of the previous portion of the output signal and the remaining samples in the window are appended to the averaged segment of the previous portion of the output signal.