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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. 16, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2002
Applicants:
Szeming Cheng, College Station, TX (US);
Hong Heather Yu, Princeton Jct., NJ (US);
Zixiang Xiong, College Station, TX (US);
Inventors:
Szeming Cheng, College Station, TX (US);
Hong Heather Yu, Princeton Jct., NJ (US);
Zixiang Xiong, College Station, TX (US);
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 19/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for concealing errors in an audio signal includes digitally encoding the audio signal into a plurality of audio data packets representative of the audio signal; determining a perceptually tolerable distortion limit for the audio packets; and altering a value of at least one audio packet by an amount within the perceptually tolerable distortion limit utilizing information representative of a different audio data packet.