HK1121569A1 - Information signal coding - Google Patents

Information signal coding

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HK1121569A1
HK1121569A1 HK09101545.9A HK09101545A HK1121569A1 HK 1121569 A1 HK1121569 A1 HK 1121569A1 HK 09101545 A HK09101545 A HK 09101545A HK 1121569 A1 HK1121569 A1 HK 1121569A1
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information signal
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signal coding
quantizing
prefiltered signal
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Jens Hirschfeld
Gerald Schuller
Manfred Lutzky
Ulrich Kraemer
Stefan Wabnik
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    • G10L19/06Determination or coding of the spectral characteristics, e.g. of the short-term prediction coefficients
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    • G10L19/00Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis
    • G10L19/02Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis using spectral analysis, e.g. transform vocoders or subband vocoders
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