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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2006

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2003
Applicants:

Atsuhiro Sakurai, Tsukuba, JP;

Steven Trautmann, Ibaraki, JP;

Daniel L. Zelazo, Shibuya-ku, JP;

Inventors:

Atsuhiro Sakurai, Tsukuba, JP;

Steven Trautmann, Ibaraki, JP;

Daniel L. Zelazo, Shibuya-ku, JP;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A time scale modification method employs separate bands obtained through an analysis polyphase filter bank with separate time-scale modification processing for the bands. The outputs are combined using a synthesis filter bank. Some constraints are imposed on the time-scale modification processing, such a limitation of the range of overlap adjustment values for bands other than the greatest energy band, to eliminate noise due to aliasing and inter-channel phase mismatch. This invention produces output quality considerably higher than conventional time-domain time-scale modification methods for general music signals with computational requirements comparable to those of conventional time-domain time-scale modification methods.


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