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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2006
Thomas Sporer, Fuerth, DE;
Michael Beckinger, Erfurt, DE;
Thomas Sporer, Fuerth, DE;
Michael Beckinger, Erfurt, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus for performing a correlation between a test sound signal replayable at variable speed and a reference sound signal, which is a digitally stored version of the test sound signal, has a determinator for determining a measure for the replay speed of a test sound signal; a variator for varying a test sound signal sampling rate, to generate a modified test sound signal depending on the measure for the replay speed, or for varying a reference sound signal sampling rate, to generate a modified reference sound signal depending on the measure for the replay speed, the variator being formed to vary the test or reference sampling rate so that a deviation between a test or modified test sound signal replay speed and a reference or modified reference sound signal replay speed is reduced; and a comparator for comparing the test or modified test sound signal and the reference or modified reference sound signal to obtain a correlation result.