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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:
Sep. 24, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kevin M Laird, Haltom City, TX (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375244 ; 375259 ; 341143 ;
Abstract
An information gap in an ADPCM signal is detected in one or both of a transmitter or receiver. This detection can be accomplished using a voice activity detector. When an information gap is detected, a clock signal to the encoder and/or decoder is interrupted. Alternatively, null frames can be inserted into the encoder and/or decoder. When null frames are used, it is preferable to insert comfort noise into the signal output from the decoder.