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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:
Feb. 20, 2007

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2001
Applicants:

Juergen Herre, Buckenhof, DE;

Martin Dietz, Nuremberg, DE;

Thomas Sporer, Fuerth, DE;

Michael Schug, Erlangen, DE;

Wolfgang Schildbach, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Juergen Herre, Buckenhof, DE;

Martin Dietz, Nuremberg, DE;

Thomas Sporer, Fuerth, DE;

Michael Schug, Erlangen, DE;

Wolfgang Schildbach, Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); H04B 1/66 (2006.01); H04N 7/12 (2006.01); H04N 11/02 (2006.01); H04N 11/04 (2006.01); G10L 19/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Analyzing an analysis time signal that has been generated from encoding and decoding and original time signal according to an encoding algorithm. The encoding block raster underlying the analysis time signal used by the encoding algorithm is determined. The analysis time signal is converted from its timely representation of analysis spectral coefficients to a spectral representation by using the established encoding block raster. At least two analysis spectral coefficients are grouped. The greatest common divisor of the analysis spectral coefficients are calculated, corresponding to the quantization step width used when quantizing the encoding algorithm or an integer multiple of it. In the case of an audio signal, the scale factor can easily be established for this group of spectral coefficients, i.e., for a scale factor band, from the quantization step width. All parameters used for the quantization of the original time signal are known; full iteration loops need not be performed.


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