METHOD OF ENCODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING A QUALITY VALUE FOR BIT ALLOCATION

Patent №

US 7,003,449

Granted

2006-02-21

Filed 2003

Owner

STMICROELECTRONICS ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD.

Lab

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10129045

A method for encoding an audio signal, including providing a masking function, representative of psychoacoustic masking; setting a quality value for data of the encoded signal, adjusting the masking function dependent upon the quality value; and allocating bits for quantization of the encoded signal based on the incremental masking function.

SpeechG10L 19/0208G10L 19/002G10L 19/035

AI classification

Speech1.00
Machine learning0.10
Evolutionary computation0.04
Planning0.01
Natural language0.00
AI hardware0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

STMICROELECTRONICS ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD.

assignment · 135510465

Assignors

ABSAR, MOHAMMED JAVED, GEORGE, SAPNA

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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