WO2003092255A1 - Audio bandwidth extending system and method - Google Patents
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- WO2003092255A1 WO2003092255A1 PCT/EP2003/003977 EP0303977W WO03092255A1 WO 2003092255 A1 WO2003092255 A1 WO 2003092255A1 EP 0303977 W EP0303977 W EP 0303977W WO 03092255 A1 WO03092255 A1 WO 03092255A1
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- G—PHYSICS
- G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
- G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
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- G10H1/02—Means for controlling the tone frequencies, e.g. attack or decay; Means for producing special musical effects, e.g. vibratos or glissandos
- G10H1/06—Circuits for establishing the harmonic content of tones, or other arrangements for changing the tone colour
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- H04M19/00—Current supply arrangements for telephone systems
- H04M19/02—Current supply arrangements for telephone systems providing ringing current or supervisory tones, e.g. dialling tone or busy tone
- H04M19/04—Current supply arrangements for telephone systems providing ringing current or supervisory tones, e.g. dialling tone or busy tone the ringing-current being generated at the substations
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- H04M9/00—Arrangements for interconnection not involving centralised switching
- H04M9/08—Two-way loud-speaking telephone systems with means for conditioning the signal, e.g. for suppressing echoes for one or both directions of traffic
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- G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
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- G10H2210/00—Aspects or methods of musical processing having intrinsic musical character, i.e. involving musical theory or musical parameters or relying on musical knowledge, as applied in electrophonic musical tools or instruments
- G10H2210/155—Musical effects
- G10H2210/265—Acoustic effect simulation, i.e. volume, spatial, resonance or reverberation effects added to a musical sound, usually by appropriate filtering or delays
- G10H2210/271—Sympathetic resonance, i.e. adding harmonics simulating sympathetic resonance from other strings
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- G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
- G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
- G10H2240/00—Data organisation or data communication aspects, specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments
- G10H2240/171—Transmission of musical instrument data, control or status information; Transmission, remote access or control of music data for electrophonic musical instruments
- G10H2240/201—Physical layer or hardware aspects of transmission to or from an electrophonic musical instrument, e.g. voltage levels, bit streams, code words or symbols over a physical link connecting network nodes or instruments
- G10H2240/241—Telephone transmission, i.e. using twisted pair telephone lines or any type of telephone network
- G10H2240/251—Mobile telephone transmission, i.e. transmitting, accessing or controlling music data wirelessly via a wireless or mobile telephone receiver, analogue or digital, e.g. DECT, GSM, UMTS
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- the present invention relates to a virtual audio bandwidth extender, and more particularly a device for increasing the perceived bandwidth of audio signals, especially in mobile telephones.
- the invention also relates to a communication apparatus comprising such a device.
- the invention provides a device for adding harmonics to a sound signal in equipment having limited bandwidth. Thereby, the bandwidth is virtually extended resulting in enhanced quality of the audio signal.
- the document US 3,828,133 describes a speech quality improving system fol ⁇ low frequency audio signals in communication systems such as telephone and radio systems.
- the input signal is divided into two branches and higher harmonics are generated in one branch which is then combined with the original signal to provide a signal having a richer sound.
- Music sound effect generators and synthesizers include ways of altering the harmonic structure of the instrument and synthetic signals, but for other purposes than giving an impression of added bandwidth.
- the present invention seeks to solve the problem of extending the perceived bandwidth of audio signals, particularly polyphonic ring signals.
- the present invention solves the aforementioned problems by providing a device for increasing the perceived bandwidth in an audio signal path with limited bandwidth, comprising: an input terminal for connecting an audio signal, and an output terminal for connecting a speaker unit for generating an acoustic signal.
- the device comprises a splitter dividing the audio path into two branches, a first branch for passing a part of the audio signal substantially without processing, and a second branch for processing a part of the audio signal.
- the second branch comprises means for producing harmonics of the audio signal.
- a combiner is provided for adding the harmonics produced in the second branch to the part of the signal in the first branch at the output terminal.
- the means for producing harmonics comprises a filter, a harmonic generator and an adjustable amplifier.
- the invention provides a communication apparatus including such a device for increasing the perceived bandwidth.
- fig. 1 is a schematic illustration of an audio path incorporating the invention.
- the sound generator and related electronics of the audio path often suffer from limited audio bandwidth, typically limited to 3.4 kHz, which will impair the perceived audio quality. This is true both for playing back polyphonic ring signals and for speech.
- a certain level of synthetic audio harmonics should be added in the audio path between the ringer or audio source and the speaker system.
- the added harmonics are second or higher harmonics, which will add a sense of clarity and brilliance as well as higher sound pressure level.
- Prototype polyphonic ringer solutions having limited bandwidth simply lack output above a certain frequency, typically 3.4 kHz, as does GSM audio.
- Fig. 1 shows an audio path incorporating a device according to the present invention.
- the audio path has an input terminal 1 to which an audio source is connected.
- the audio source may be a ringer, preferably a polyphonic ringer, or circuitry connected with the speech signals.
- the audio path has an output terminal 2 connected to a speaker system.
- the speaker system may be the same for both ringer signals and speech.
- the speaker system may also be separate for ring signals and speech, in which case two audio paths are provided.
- a splitter 3 divides the audio path into two branches: a first branch 4 which is a line possibly without any processing and a second branch 5 for processing the divided path of the audio signal.
- the two branches are brought together by means of a combiner 6.
- the second branch 5 is provided with means for adding harmonics to the audio signal. It includes a filter 7 with selected slope separating the upper portion of the pass band or bandwidth.
- the output signal of the filter is converted to out-of- band harmonics by means of a harmonic generator 8.
- the harmonic generator 8 may be a selected nonlinear circuit or a digital signal processor (DSP function), the signal delay of which should be taken into account.
- the second branch should also include an adjustable amplifier 9 for adding a defined extent of the created harmonics to the original signal in the combiner 6.
- the first branch may be provided with means 10 for providing a delay or a phase shift corresponding to the parts of the second branch, if necessary.
- Predominantly second harmonics should be used, giving the subjective impression of an added octave. Harmonics of higher order may also be used but should be attenuated gradually. Even order harmonics are preferred.
- the settings for different user cases such as polyphonic ring signals or speech should be different.
- higher levels of harmonics also containing higher order harmonics, can be added than for speech.
- adding harmonics could also be used as a means for creating new types of sounds, possibly dynamically controlled by software.
- the implementation for adding the harmonics will range from discrete components, like diode networks, integrated circuits and ASICs (Application
- the invention has several advantages over the prior art.
- the sonic experience for polyphonic ringers will be enhanced without having to increase bandwidth or ringer memory size, which should also reduce costs and save space.
- the perceived sound pressure level will increase, which will provide an improved alert function.
- Speech audio such as GSM audio
- GSM audio would benefit from enhanced clarity. While keeping the GSM specification, speech intelligibility would improve, which would be helpful also in noisy situations and for people having hearing loss.
- the added clarity could also counteract level dependent loss of high frequencies due to the CVSD coding (Continuously Variable Slope Delta modulation), having increased treble attenuation at increasing sound levels. This could necessitate different settings for Bluetooth audio than for other cases.
- the invention is particularly useful in portable and mobile telephones, but may also be included in electronic equipment such as portable radio communication equipment, pagers, communicators, electric organizers, smart phones or the like.
- electronic equipment such as portable radio communication equipment, pagers, communicators, electric organizers, smart phones or the like.
- the invention is only limited to the claims below.
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JPH0955634A (en) * | 1995-08-11 | 1997-02-25 | Yamaha Corp | Harmonic addition circuit |
US6023513A (en) * | 1996-01-11 | 2000-02-08 | U S West, Inc. | System and method for improving clarity of low bandwidth audio systems |
EP0994464A1 (en) * | 1998-10-13 | 2000-04-19 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Method and apparatus for generating a wide-band signal from a narrow-band signal and telephone equipment comprising such an apparatus |
US6215879B1 (en) * | 1997-11-19 | 2001-04-10 | Philips Semiconductors, Inc. | Method for introducing harmonics into an audio stream for improving three dimensional audio positioning |
EP1161076A1 (en) * | 2000-04-04 | 2001-12-05 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Portable radiotelephone with improved ringing |
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JPH0955634A (en) * | 1995-08-11 | 1997-02-25 | Yamaha Corp | Harmonic addition circuit |
US6023513A (en) * | 1996-01-11 | 2000-02-08 | U S West, Inc. | System and method for improving clarity of low bandwidth audio systems |
US6215879B1 (en) * | 1997-11-19 | 2001-04-10 | Philips Semiconductors, Inc. | Method for introducing harmonics into an audio stream for improving three dimensional audio positioning |
EP0994464A1 (en) * | 1998-10-13 | 2000-04-19 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Method and apparatus for generating a wide-band signal from a narrow-band signal and telephone equipment comprising such an apparatus |
EP1161076A1 (en) * | 2000-04-04 | 2001-12-05 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Portable radiotelephone with improved ringing |
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