Excavating
Patent
1996-03-04
1999-02-09
Elmore, Reba I.
Excavating
371 374, 371 3701, 371 3703, 371 3709, 36471502, G06F 1100
Patent
active
058704051
ABSTRACT:
The performance of digital communication over a noisy communication channel is improved. An encoder combines bit modulation with error control encoding to allow the decoder to use the redundancy in the error control codes to detect uncorrectable bit errors. This method improves the efficiency of the communication system since fewer bits are required for error control, leaving more bits available for data. In the context of a speech coding system, speech quality is improved without sacrificing robustness to bit errors. A bit prioritization method further improves performance over noisy channels. Individual bits in a set of quantizer values are arranged according to their sensitivity to bit errors. Error control codes having higher levels of redundancy are used to protect the most sensitive (highest priority) bits, while lower levels of redundancy are used to protest less sensitive bits. This method improves efficiency of the error control system, since only the highest priority data is encoded with the highest levels of redundancy. The effect of uncorrectable bit errors is reduced by adaptively smoothing the spectral parameters in a speech decoder. The amount of smoothing is varied depending upon the number of errors detected during the error control decoding of the received data. More smoothing is used when a large number of errors are detected, thereby reducing the perceived effect of any uncorrectable bit errors which may be present.
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Hardwick John C.
Lim Jae S.
Digital Voice Systems, Inc.
Elmore Reba I.
Marc McDieunel
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