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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:
Nov. 10, 2009

Filed:

May. 10, 2002
Applicants:

Alessio Stella, Bologna, IT;

Jan Alexis Daniel Nesvadba, Eindhoven, NL;

Mauro Barbieri, Eindhoven, NL;

Freddy Snijder, Eindhoven, NL;

Inventors:

Alessio Stella, Bologna, IT;

Jan Alexis Daniel Nesvadba, Eindhoven, NL;

Mauro Barbieri, Eindhoven, NL;

Freddy Snijder, Eindhoven, NL;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 11/06 (2006.01); G10L 15/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Silences are detected when a local signal power is below a given fixed or relative threshold value, the duration of the local signal power being below the given fixed or relative threshold value is within a first range and at least one of the parameters signal power fall/rise rate and local power deviation falls within a respective further range. The invention further relates to the use of such a silence detection in a receiver ().


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