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20100040370 | FRAME GENERATING APPARATUS, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, FRAME GENERATING METHOD, AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - A frame generating apparatus includes an optical-transport-network frame generator configured to generate an optical transport network frame from a client signal; and a frame decomposer configured to perform serial-parallel conversion on the optical transport network frame to generate a plurality of virtual lanes, where the optical-transport-network frame generator arranges frame synchronization bytes and virtual lane identifiers in an overhead area and/or a fixed stuff part so that a frame synchronization byte and a virtual lane identifier are arranged in each virtual lane. | 02-18-2010 |
20100067547 | Frame generating device - A frame generating device includes an inserting portion and an accommodating portion. The inserting portion inserts a first fixed stuff byte and a second fixed stuff byte into a payload area of an OTU frame, the first fixed stuff byte being of (8+10n (“n” is zero or a given positive integer))×4 rows, the second fixed stuff byte being of a given byte×4 rows, the given byte being equal to zero or more and being equal to (24−10n) or more. The accommodating portion accommodates Ethernet signal in the payload area other than the first fixed stuff byte and the second fixed stuff byte. | 03-18-2010 |
20100322630 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND METHOD - An optical transmission apparatus including a transmitting OTL processor to rearrange a data string stored in a frame into a plurality of logical lanes, and set a lane ID used to identify in which logical lane a beginning of the data string is arranged among the plurality of logical lanes in a non-scramble area in an overhead of the frame, and a receiving OTL processor to respectively identify the lane IDs included in the data string in the respective physical lanes rearranged, determine a generation state of a bit inversion and a lane replacement for each physical lane, compensate the bit inversion and the lane replacement so that the data string in the respective physical lanes becomes same state as the data string in the respective logical lanes, based on the identified result, and rearrange the compensated data string in the respective logical lanes so as to regenerate the frame. | 12-23-2010 |
20110200339 | OPTICAL RECEIVER - An optical receiver includes: a waveform distortion compensator to perform an operation on digital signal representing an optical signal generated by an A/D converter to compensate for waveform distortion of the optical signal; a phase detector to generate phase information representing sampling phase of the A/D converter; a phase adjuster to generate digital signal representing an optical signal in which the sampling phase of the A/D converter is adjusted from an output signal of the waveform distortion compensator using the phase information; a demodulator to generate a demodulated signal from the output signal of the phase adjuster; a phase controller to control the sampling phase of the A/D converter; a peak detector to detect a peak value of the phase information while the sampling phase of the A/D converter is controlled by the phase controller; and a compensation controller to control the waveform distortion compensator using the peak value. | 08-18-2011 |
20120148266 | DIGITAL COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVER, ADAPTIVE EQUALIZER, AND DIGITAL COHERENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATION METHOD - A digital coherent optical receiver includes a processor that is operative to separate electric signals obtained by converting an optical signal into a horizontal signal component and a vertical signal component; to generate a histogram of the horizontal signal component and the vertical signal component as outputs of the equalizing filter; and to determine a presence/absence of local convergence based on distribution of the histogram of the horizontal signal component and the histogram of the vertical signal component. | 06-14-2012 |
20120219282 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - An optical transmission system transmits an optical signal of multi-level modulation. In a transmitter module, a data string in a specified frame is rearranged into a plurality of logical lanes. A lane ID, which specifies in what logical lane out of the plurality of logical lanes a start of the data string is arranged, is assigned to a non-scrambled area in an overhead portion of the frame. The lane ID corresponding to one of the plurality of logical lanes is different from the lane IDs corresponding to the other remaining logical lanes. The optical signal is generated using the data string rearranged into the plurality of logical lanes. In a receiver, the lane ID is detected according to a majority method. The inversion of bits and the swapping of lanes are detected using the lane ID and compensated. | 08-30-2012 |
20140212132 | ADAPTIVE EQUALIZER TAP COEFFICIENT CORRECTION METHOD AND OPTICAL RECEIVER - A method of tap coefficient correction includes: obtaining a synchronization symbol difference between a first polarization and a second polarization orthogonal to the first polarization; obtaining a delay amount of each of the first polarization and the second polarization in an adaptive equalizer; calculating, in a case where a horizontal axis represents a tap number and a vertical axis represents a tap coefficient and a tap number or a nearest tap number with which an area of a drawn figure is halved is set as a gravity center of tap coefficients, a correction reference gravity center of the tap coefficients set in the adaptive equalizer, based on the synchronization symbol difference and the delay amount; and performing a correction of shifting an entire tap coefficients in units of symbol to cause the correction reference gravity center to be closest to a tap center. | 07-31-2014 |
20140363154 | OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An optimization unit in an optical receiver divides a symbol region out of a plurality of symbol regions into which signal points that specifies symbol information included in an optical signal are classified, into a plurality of division regions from the symbol center coordinate of the symbol region. Moreover, the optimization unit accumulates the signal points of the symbol information for every division region in the symbol region. Furthermore, based on the accumulated number of signal points for every division region, the optimization unit controls the average length of a phase estimation unit when the phase noise of the optical signal is calculated. | 12-11-2014 |
20150229401 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD FOR OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER - An optical transceiver converts a received optical signal to an electric signal and converts the electric signal to a digital signal, and has an adaptive equalizer to adaptively equalize the digital signal, a synchronization part to synchronize a first polarized wave and a second polarized wave contained in the adaptively equalized digital signal and having polarization axes perpendicular to each other, and a symbol offset determination part to determine an amount of symbol offset between the first polarized wave and the second polarized wave based upon symbol synchronization information of the first polarized wave and the second polarized wave supplied from the synchronization part, the symbol offset determination part being configured to repeat determination of the amount of symbol offset and restart the adaptive equalizer until the symbol offset is minimized. | 08-13-2015 |
20160094292 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing device that processes a digital signal formed by sampling an electric signal using a clock signal, the electric signal being obtained by converting an optical signal inputted from a transmission line, the signal processing device includes: a first chromatic dispersion compensator that compensates a waveform distortion caused by a chromatic dispersion with respect to the digital signal; a first nonlinear optical effect compensator that compensates a waveform distortion caused by a nonlinear optical effect with respect to one signal outputted from the first chromatic dispersion compensator; and a controller that detects a phase fluctuation of other signal outputted from the first chromatic dispersion compensator, and controls the clock signal based on the detected phase fluctuation. | 03-31-2016 |
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20130156112 | DECODING DEVICE, ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD, AND ENCODING METHOD - A decoding device to decode a main signal code obtained by encoding low-frequency components of an original signal and to output a lowband main signal for output of a main signal, includes: a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, decoding auxiliary information code obtained by encoding auxiliary information, the auxiliary information being for generating, from the lowband main signal, a highband main signal corresponding to high-frequency components of the original signal; decoding residual code obtained by encoding low-frequency components of a residual signal indicating error components produced by encoding of the original signal, and thereby output a lowband residual signal; generating a highband residual signal indicating high-frequency components of the residual signal, based on the lowband residual signal output by the residual decoder and the output auxiliary information; generating an output signal. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156200 | DECODING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD - A decoding device includes a decoder configured to separate a first signal obtained by performing down-mix on original signals of a plurality of channels, a residual signal representing a component of a difference between the original signals and the first signal, and spatial information representing the relationship among the original signals of the plurality of channels from an input signal which is obtained by multiplexing the first signal, the residual signal, and the spatial information and decode the separated encoded first signal, the encoded residual signal, and the encoded spatial information; a decorrelation signal generation unit configured to generate a decorrelation signal as decorrelation of the first signal decoded by the decoder; a residual signal determination unit configured to determine whether a level of the residual signal decoded by the decoder is equal to or smaller than a predetermined residual threshold value; a second-signal generation unit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130182854 | AUDIO CODING DEVICE AND METHOD - An audio coding device that uses a first-channel signal, a second-channel signal, and a plurality of channel prediction coefficients included in a code book, according to which predictive coding is performed on a third-channel signal, the first-channel signal, the second-channel signal, and the third-channel signal being included in a plurality of channels of an audio signal, the device includes, a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, determining a distribution of error defined by a difference between the third-channel signal before predictive coding and the third-channel signal after predictive coding as a given curved surface according to the first-channel signal, the second-channel signal, and the third-channel signal before predictive coding; and calculating channel prediction coefficients, included in the code book. | 07-18-2013 |
20140006035 | AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE AND AUDIO ENCODING METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140029752 | AUDIO DECODING DEVICE AND AUDIO DECODING METHOD - An audio decoding device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, decoding, using a first channel signal and a second channel signal included in a plurality of channels of an audio signal having a first frequency range and a second frequency range, a first prediction coefficient of the first frequency range and a second prediction coefficient of the second frequency range, both selected from a code book when prediction-encoding a third channel signal that is not subjected to prediction encoding and that is included in the plurality of channels; decoding a residual signal included in the first frequency range, the residual signal representing an error occurring in prediction encoding; and prediction-decoding the third channel signal subjected to prediction-encoding in the second frequency range from the first channel signal, the second channel signal. | 01-30-2014 |
20140050324 | DATA EMBEDDING DEVICE, DATA EMBEDDING METHOD, DATA EXTRACTOR DEVICE, AND DATA EXTRACTION METHOD - A data embedding device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, extracting, from a code book storing a plurality of prediction coefficients, a plurality of candidates of prediction coefficients of a channel signal out of a plurality of channel signals, each candidate having a predictive error falling within a specific range of predictive error of predictive encoding of two other channel signals; and selecting from the extracted candidates a prediction coefficient as a result of the predictive encoding in accordance with a specific data embedding rule and embedding embed target data into the selected prediction coefficient. | 02-20-2014 |
20140114652 | AUDIO CODING DEVICE, AUDIO CODING METHOD, AND AUDIO CODING AND DECODING SYSTEM - An audio coding device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, calculating a frequency spectrum characteristic of an input signal; defining a scale factor that is used to quantize a frequency spectrum converted from the input signal, based on the frequency spectrum characteristic, for each of a plurality of bands; and quantizing the frequency spectrum based on the scale factor. | 04-24-2014 |
20140236603 | AUDIO CODING DEVICE AND METHOD - An audio coding device that performs predictive coding on a third-channel signal included in a plurality of channels in an audio signal according to a first-channel signal and a second-channel signal, which are included in the plurality of channels, and to a plurality of channel prediction coefficients included in a coding book, the device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, selecting channel prediction coefficients corresponding to the first-channel signal and the second-channel signal so that an error, which is determined by a difference between the third-channel signal before predictive coding and the third-channel signal after predictive coding, is minimized; and controlling the first-channel signal or the second-channel signal so that the error is further reduced. | 08-21-2014 |
20140278446 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DATA EMBEDDING AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DATA EXTRACTION - A data embedding device includes a storage unit configured to store a code book that includes a plurality of prediction parameters; a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, extracting a plurality of candidates, of which a prediction error in prediction coding, the prediction coding being based on signals of other two channels, of a signal of one channel among signals of a plurality of channels is within a predetermined range, of a prediction parameter from the code book and extracting the number of candidates of the prediction parameter, the candidates being extracted; converting at least part of data that is an embedding object into a number base based on the number of candidates; and selecting a prediction parameter, the prediction parameter being a result of the prediction coding, from the candidates. | 09-18-2014 |
20140294181 | ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORM APPARATUS, ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORM METHOD, ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORM COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND AUDIO DECODING APPARATUS - An orthogonal transform apparatus computes either one of the real and imaginary components of the quadrature mirror filter coefficient contained in a first subinterval of a plurality of subintervals among which a coefficient sequence containing a plurality of quadrature mirror filter coefficients is divided so that the values of basis functions are symmetrically placed, by computing a sum of products of the plurality of modified discrete cosine transform coefficients and the basis functions corresponding to the subinterval, computes the other one of the real and imaginary components of the quadrature mirror filter coefficient contained in the first subinterval and the real and imaginary components of the quadrature mirror filter coefficient contained in another subintervals by performing a butterfly operation using a computed value produced as a result of the sum of products and computes each quadrature mirror filter coefficient by combining the real component and imaginary component thereof. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297706 | ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORM APPARATUS, ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORM METHOD, ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORM COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND AUDIO DECODING APPARATUS - An orthogonal transform apparatus includes: an interchanging unit which interchanges MDCT coefficients contained in a first half of a prescribed interval with MDCT coefficients contained in a second half thereof; an inverting unit which inverts the sign of the MDCT coefficients contained in the second half of the prescribed interval after the interchange; an inverse cosine transform unit which computes the real components of QMF coefficients by applying an IMDCT using FFT to the MDCT coefficients contained in the first half and the sign-inverted MDCT coefficients contained in the second half; an inverse sine transform unit which computes the imaginary components of the QMF coefficients by applying an IMDST using FFT to the MDCT coefficients contained in the first half and the sign-inverted MDCT coefficients contained in the second half; and a coefficient adjusting unit which computes the QMF coefficients by combining the real components with the imaginary components. | 10-02-2014 |