Nova Patents
EP0655161A1

Lost frame concealment.

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16 claims: 2 independent, 14 dependent

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    Claims of equivalent WO 9429850 A1 CLAIMS 1. An apparatus in a receiver in a frame based communication system, for concealing the effects of lost frames in a speech decoder (24), which speech decoder is of the source-filter type and is controlled by means (20, 22, 24) including internal state variables updated on a frame by frame basis for modifying received filter defining parameters representing background sounds, said apparatus being characterized by:(a) means (14) for detecting loss of frames;(b) means (18) for concealing the effects of a lost frame by restricting updating of at least one of said internal state variables.
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    A method in a receiver in a frame based radio communication system, for concealing the effects of lost frames in a speech decoder, which speech decoder is of the source-filter type and comprises means including internal state variables updated on a frame by frame basis for modifying received filter defining parameters representing background sounds, said method being characterized by:(a) detecting loss of frames, (b) concealing the effects of a lost frame by restricting updating of at least one of said internal state vari¬ ables.