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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2011
Robert Bäuml, Eckental, DE;
Ulrich Kornagel, Erlangen, DE;
Thomas Pilgrim, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A method and device for frequency compression of audio signals to reduce the occurrence of artifacts. A component of the audio signal having a plurality of frequency channels is shifted from a first frequency channel into a second frequency channel. A dominant instantaneous frequency is determined in the first frequency channel. During shifting or mapping, first the entire first frequency channel, including the dominant instantaneous frequency, is shifted or mapped into the second frequency channel, wherein the dominant instantaneous frequency obtains an intermediate frequency position. A final frequency position for the dominant instantaneous frequency is determined using a predefined compression characteristic in the second frequency channel, starting from the frequency position of the dominant instantaneous frequency in the first frequency channel. Finally, the dominant instantaneous frequency is shifted or mapped from the intermediate frequency position to the final frequency position.