摘要:
Voice and other analog information are transmitted from one to another of a plurality of stations in a communications system wherein, at the sending stations, an encoder samples the voice or other analog signal for sets of values of one or more characteristics, and assigned codes corresponding to the sampled sets of values are stored in sequence in a buffer. Each of the codes corresponding to the sample characteristics is assigned to respective ones of a multiplicity of discrete subperiods within each of a series of periods (P). Signal identifying receiving stations are inserted at indiscriminate rates on the transmission medium into the available subperiods having assigned meanings corresponding to the stored codes in a manner which removes the stored codes in sequence from the buffer. Each receiving station detects its own identification signal on the transmission medium and correlates the subperiods in which the identification signals are detected with their respective assigned codes. A decoder converts such correlated codes to their respective assigned sets of sample values from which it reconstructs the original voice or other analog signal. The system permits different and/or continuously varying sampling rates to be used by the stations without requiring fixed time or frequency channels. Thus, the system is generally insensitive to the kind of analog input signal waveform presented for encoding, or the type of encoding or decoding technique employed.
摘要:
A system and method for deriving a decoding rate to be used by a periodic decoder in reconstructing an analog or voice waveform from asynchronously received sample data that was generated at an unknown and possibly changing periodic encoding rate. Sample data representing a particular defining characteristic of a waveform at unknown but substantially uniformly spaced times is received asynchronously at a generally non-uniform rate. The sample data is stored in a buffer memory until used by a periodic decoder to reconstruct the waveform. The rate at which the periodic decoder uses samples to reconstruct the waveform is adjusted in accordance with the number of samples stored in the buffer such that the number of stored samples tends toward a median number.