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This table lists the patents granted to date to the Licensors that are essential to the practice of the Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) codec.  

 Licensor
 Licensed Patents

Country

Patent Number

TELEFONAKIEBOLAGET
ERICSSON AB

 

Adaptive Combining of
Multi-Mode Coding for Voiced Speech and Noise-Like Signals
  AR
AU
CN
DE
FI
FR
GB
IN
IT
JP
KR
MX
MY
RU
SG
TW
US
ZA
027812B1
774998
ZL99812785-X
EP-1114414
EP-1114414
EP-1114414
EP-1114414
203036
EP-1114414
3483853
421648
232547
123316
22235555
79451
NI-134156
6192335
2001/1666
     
   
Speech Coding with Improved Background Noise Reproduction
  CN
DE
FI
FR
GB
IT
KR
MY
US
ZL99810944-4
69935233
1112568
1112568
EP-1112568
1112568
10-0688069
126550
6275798
     
   
Speech Coding Including Soft Adaptability Feature
  CN
DE
DE
FR
FR
GB
GB
JP
US
US
ZL99803640-4
EP-1058927
EP-1267329
EP-1058927
EP-1267329
EP-1058927
EP-1267329
3378238
6058359
6564183
     
   
Reducing Sparseness in Coded Speech Signals
  AU
CA
CN
DE
EPC
FI
FR
HK
IT
KR
JP
MX
RU
SG
TW
UK
US
US
753740
2301886
ZL98808782-0
1008141
EP1008141
113595
1008141
1051082
1008141
417351
3464450
221970
2239239
70917
116215
1008141
6029125
6301556
     

 

 

Complex Signal Activity Detection for Improved Speech/Noise Classification
of an Audio Signal
  AR
AU
CN
DE
FI
FR
GB
IN
IT
JP
KR
MX
MY
RU
SG
TW
US
ZA
AR030386B1
76409
ZL99813625-5
1224659
1224659
1224659
1224659
203716
1224659
1025018
10-0667008
228519
124630
2251750
80240
NI-151661
6424938
2001/3150
     

NOKIA CORPORATION

 

Pitch Lag Estimation in
Speech Coding
  AU
CN
DE
ES
FI
FR
IN
IT
KR
NL
SE
UK
US
739238
ZL98804901.5
69814517.8-08
877355
113903
877355
204479
877355
6539-32 & 26
877355
877355
877355
6199035
     

 



Method and Device for Voice Activity Detection and a Communication Device
  US
5963901*
*Note: Kindly note that US 5,963,901 does not constitute a Licensed Patent.
     

VOICEAGE CORPORATION



Dynamic Codebook for Efficient Speech Coding Based on Algebraic Codes

  AT
BE
CA
CH
DE
DK
EP
ES
FR
GB
GR
IT
LI
LU
NL
SE
US
0516621
0516621
2010830
0516621
0516621
0516621
0516621
0516621
0516621
0516621
0516621
0516621
0516621
0516621
0516621
0516621
5444816
     
   
Method and Device for Eradicating Instability due to Periodic Signals in Analysis-by-Synthesis Speech Codecs
  CA
US
US
2,202,025
5,893,060
5,987,406
     
   
Predictive Split Matrix Quantization of Spectral Parameters for Efficient Coding of Speech
  AU
AT
BE
BR
CA
CH
CN
DE
DK
ES
FR
GB
IT
JP
NL
SE
US
697256
819303/AT E 198805T1
819303
9604838-7
2216315
819303
ZL96193827.7
819303/DE69611607 T2
819303
819303
819303
819303
819303
3590071
819303
819303
5664053
     
   
Depth-First Algebraic-Codebook Search for Fast Coding of Speech
  ZA
AR
AT
AU
BE
BR
CA
CH
CN
DE
DK
EP
ES
FI
FR
GB
HK
IE
IN
IT
JP
KR
MX
MY
NL
PT
RU
SE
US
0335689/AR001189B1
813736
707307
813736
PI9607144-3
2213740
813736
ZL96193196.5
19609170
813736
813736
9650035
813736
813736
GB-2299001-B
HK1001846
813736
187842/96
1285305
3160852
299408
209494
MY-119252-A
813736
813736
2175454
520554
5701392
96/1913
     
   
Algebraic codebook with signal-selected pulse amplitude for fast coding of speech.
  AR
AU
AT
BE
CA
CH
CN
DE
DK
EP
ES
FI
FR
GB
GR
HK
IE
IN
IT
JP
KR
LI
LU
MC
MX
MY
NL
NO
PT
RU
SE
US
ZA
AR 000871 B1
708392
808496
808496
2210765
808496
ZL02107907.2
196 04 273
808496
808496
9650025
117994
2730336
2297671
808496
HK1002492
808496
187453
1305724
3430175
388751
808496
808496
808496
195924
MY-119038-A
808496
318595
808496
2142166
9600437.9
5754976
96/0852
     
Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation  
Method of and Apparatus for Decoding Speech
 
JP
3085347
 
   
Speech Coding and decoding Methods Using Adaptive and Random Code Books
 
US
5396576