Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080270124 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AUDIO/SPEECH SIGNAL - Provided is a method of encoding an audio/speech signal, the method including determining a variable length of a frame, that is, a processing unit of an input signal in accordance with a position of an attack in the input signal; transforming each frame of the input signal to a frequency domain and dividing the frame into a plurality of sub frequency bands; and, if a signal of a sub frequency band is determined to be encoded in the frequency domain, encoding the signal of the sub frequency band in the frequency domain, and if the signal of the sub frequency band is determined to be encoded in a time domain, inverse transforming the signal of the sub frequency band to the time domain and encoding the inverse transformed signal in the time domain. According to the present invention, the audio/speech signal may be efficiently encoded by controlling time resolution and frequency resolution. | 10-30-2008 |
20090006081 | METHOD, MEDIUM AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND/OR DECODING SIGNAL - Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding an audio signal or a speech signal. In the encoding method, encoding is performed by performing domain transformation on a received signal in units of frequency bands by applying a psychoacoustic model, encoding the transformation result with respect to predetermined one or more frequency bands by using a high temporal resolution coding tool, and then quantizing the encoding result. In the decoding method, decoding is performed by inversely quantizing signals obtained by encoding in units of frequency bands, decoding one or more signals from among the inversely quantized signals, which are allocated to one or more frequency bands which have a predetermined domain resolution, determined by applying the psychoacoustic model, that is greater than a predetermined value, according to a predetermined method, and then inversely transforming either the inversely quantized or the one or more decoded signals. | 01-01-2009 |
20090006104 | METHOD OF CONFIGURING CODEC AND CODEC USING THE SAME - Provided is a codec that may be configured to adaptively optimize to various service environments by obtaining information on a current operating environment of the codec and configuring the codec in view of quality of service (QoS) parameters based on the obtained information. | 01-01-2009 |
20090094023 | Method, medium, and apparatus encoding scalable wideband audio signal - Provided is a method and apparatus for encoding a scalable wideband audio signal, the method including: filtering a voiced signal by performing linear prediction on the voiced signal and modulating the filtered signal; encoding the modulated signal in the time domain, and outputting a core layer encoding result of the voiced signal; subtracting a signal obtained by decoding the core layer encoding result from the modulated signal and outputting an error signal; and encoding the error signal and outputting an enhancement layer encoding result of the voiced signal. | 04-09-2009 |
20090110208 | APPARATUS, MEDIUM AND METHOD TO ENCODE AND DECODE HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNAL - A method and apparatus to encoding or decoding an audio signal is provided. In the method and apparatus, a noise-floor level to use in encoding or decoding a high frequency signal is updated according to the degree of a voiced or unvoiced sound included in the signal. | 04-30-2009 |
20090167588 | Method, medium and apparatus for quantization encoding and de-quantization decoding using trellis - Provided are a method and apparatus for quantization encoding and de-quantization decoding using a trellis. Unlike a trellis coded quantization (TCQ) index, by classifying quantization levels to which cosets are allocated and allocating indexes to the quantization levels so that a coset corresponding to a specific branch in a predetermined state in the trellis can be selected with only indexes without encoding or decoding information on paths, quantization encoding and de-quantization decoding are performed by using a new index. | 07-02-2009 |
20090210234 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ENCODING AND DECODING SIGNALS - A method of encoding an audio signal, where signals including two or more channel signals are downmixed to a mono signal, the mono signal is divided into a low-frequency signal and a high-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal is encoded through algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP) or transform coded excitation (TCX), and the high-frequency signal is encoded using the low-frequency signal. A method of decoding of an audio signal, a low-frequency signal encoded through ACELP or TCX is decoded, a high-frequency signal is decoded using the low-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal and the high-frequency signal are combined to generate a mono signal, and the mono signal is upmixed by decoding spatial parameters regarding signals including two or more channel signals. | 08-20-2009 |
20100002794 | METHOD, MEDIUM AND APPARATUS FOR QUANTIZATION ENCODING AND DE-QUANTIZATION DECODING USING TRELLIS - Provided are a method and apparatus for quantization encoding and de-quantization decoding using a trellis. Unlike a trellis coded quantization (TCQ) index, by classifying quantization levels to which cosets are allocated and allocating indexes to the quantization levels so that a coset corresponding to a specific branch in a predetermined state in the trellis can be selected with only indexes without encoding or decoding information on paths, quantization encoding and de-quantization decoding are performed by using a new index. | 01-07-2010 |
20100010807 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ENCODE AND DECODE AN AUDIO/SPEECH SIGNAL - A method and apparatus to encode and decode an audio/speech signal is provided. An inputted audio signal or speech signal may be transformed into at least one of a high frequency resolution signal and a high temporal resolution signal. The signal may be encoded by determining an appropriate resolution, the encoded signal may be decoded, and thus the audio signal, the speech signal, and a mixed signal of the audio signal and the speech signal may be processed. | 01-14-2010 |
20100017202 | Method and apparatus for determining coding mode - Provided is a method and apparatus for determining a signal coding mode. The signal coding mode may be determined or changed according to whether a current frame corresponds to a silence period and by using a history of speech or music presence possibilities. | 01-21-2010 |
20100114566 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding speech signal - An apparatus and method for encoding/decoding a speech signal which determines a variable bit rate based on reserved bits obtained from a target bit rate, is provided. The variable bit rate is determined based on a source feature of the speech signal and the reserved bits is obtained based on the target bit rate. The apparatus for encoding the speech signal may include a linear predictive (LP) analysis unit/quantization unit to determine an immittance spectral frequencies (ISF) index, a closed loop pitch search unit, a fixed codebook search unit, a gain vector quantization (VQ) unit to determine a gain vector quantization (VQ) index, and a bit rate control unit to control at least two indexes of the ISF index, the pitch index, the code index, and the gain VQ index to be encoded to be variable bit rates based on a source feature of a speech signal and the reserved bits. | 05-06-2010 |
20100145688 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding speech signal using coding mode - An apparatus and a method to encode and decode a speech signal using an encoding mode are provided. An encoding apparatus may select an encoding mode of a frame included in an input speech signal, and encode a frame having an unvoiced mode for an unvoiced speech as the selected encoding mode. | 06-10-2010 |
20100268542 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF AUDIO ENCODING AND DECODING BASED ON VARIABLE BIT RATE - An apparatus and method of audio encoding and decoding based on a Variable Bit Rate (VBR) is provided. The audio encoding and decoding apparatus and method may determine an optimum bit rate per superframe and per frame, determine an optimum encoding mode by applying an open-loop mode/closed-loop mode based on a characteristic of an audio signal, and perform indexing based on the optimum encoding mode. | 10-21-2010 |
20110295600 | Apparatus and method determining weighting function for linear prediction coding coefficients quantization - An apparatus determining a weighting function for line prediction coding coefficients quantization converts a linear prediction coding (LPC) coefficient of an input signal into one of a line spectral frequency (LSF) coefficient and an immitance spectral frequency (ISF) coefficient and determines a weighting function associated with one of an importance of the ISF coefficient and importance of the LSF coefficient using one of the converted ISF coefficient and the converted LSF coefficient. | 12-01-2011 |
20110320196 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - A method for coding and decoding an audio signal or speech signal and an apparatus adopting the method are provided. | 12-29-2011 |
20120020482 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL - Disclosed is an apparatus for encoding and decoding a multi-channel audio signal. The apparatus for encoding the multi-channel audio signal groups channels of a multi-channel audio signal, eliminates redundant information between channels using a mixing matrix including phase information, converts a frequency of the signal, and encodes the signal. | 01-26-2012 |
20120065965 | Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding signal for high frequency bandwidth extension - An apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a signal for high frequency bandwidth extension are provided. An encoding apparatus may down-sample a time domain input signal, may core-encode the down-sampled time domain input signal, may transform the core-encoded time domain input signal to a frequency domain input signal, and may perform bandwidth extension encoding using a basic signal of the frequency domain input signal. | 03-15-2012 |
20120095756 | Apparatus and method for determining weighting function having low complexity for linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficients quantization - Proposed is a method and apparatus for determining a weighting function for quantizing a linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficient and having a low complexity. The weighting function determination apparatus may convert an LPC coefficient of a mid-subframe of an input signal to one of a immitance spectral frequency (ISF) coefficient and a line spectral frequency (LSF) coefficient, and may determine a weighting function associated with an importance of the ISF coefficient or the LSF coefficient based on the converted ISF coefficient or LSF coefficient. | 04-19-2012 |
20120173247 | APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING A WEIGHTED LINEAR PREDICTIVE TRANSFORM, AND A METHOD FOR SAME - Disclosed is an apparatus for encoding and/or decoding an audio signal having a variable bit rate (VBR). A target bit rate is determined in accordance with characteristics of an audio signal, and a weighted linear predictive transform coding is performed in accordance with the determined target bit rate. | 07-05-2012 |
20120271629 | APPARATUS FOR QUANTIZING LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING COEFFICIENTS, SOUND ENCODING APPARATUS, APPARATUS FOR DE-QUANTIZING LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING COEFFICIENTS, SOUND DECODING APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREFORE - A quantizing apparatus is provided that includes a quantization path determiner that determines a path from a first path not using inter-frame prediction and a second path using the inter-frame prediction, as a quantization path of an input signal, based on a criterion before quantization of the input signal; a first quantizer that quantizes the input signal, if the first path is determined as the quantization path of the input signal; and a second quantizer that quantizes the input signal, if the second path is determined as the quantization path of the input signal. | 10-25-2012 |
20120278069 | METHOD OF QUANTIZING LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING COEFFICIENTS, SOUND ENCODING METHOD, METHOD OF DE-QUANTIZING LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING COEFFICIENTS, SOUND DECODING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREFOR - A quantizing method is provided that includes quantizing an input signal by selecting one of a first quantization scheme not using an inter-frame prediction and a second quantization scheme using the inter-frame prediction, in consideration of one or more of a prediction mode, a predictive error and a transmission channel state. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278089 | ERROR CONCEALMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO SIGNAL AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO SIGNAL USING THE SAME - An error concealment method and apparatus for an audio signal and a decoding method and apparatus for an audio signal using the error concealment method and apparatus. The error concealment method includes selecting one of an error concealment in a frequency domain and an error concealment in a time domain as an error concealment scheme for a current frame based on a predetermined criteria when an error occurs in the current frame, selecting one of a repetition scheme and an interpolation scheme in the frequency domain as the error concealment scheme for the current frame based on a predetermined criteria when the error concealment in the frequency domain is selected, and concealing the error of the current frame using the selected scheme. | 11-01-2012 |
20130030820 | METHOD, MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM SCALABLY ENCODING/DECODING AUDIO/SPEECH - A method, medium, and system scalably encoding/decoding audio/speech. The method includes splitting an input signal into a low frequency band signal that is lower than a predetermined frequency and a high frequency band signal that is higher than the predetermined frequency, scalably encoding the split low frequency band signal into a core layer and one or more extension layers and then decoding the encoded core layer and the encoded extension layers, generating an error signal by using the split low frequency band signal and a decoded signal of the encoded core layer and the encoded extension layers, and encoding the error signal and the high frequency band signal into a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) enhancement layer and a bandwidth extension layer. | 01-31-2013 |
20130144632 | FRAME ERROR CONCEALMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND AUDIO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A frame error concealment method is provided that includes predicting a parameter by performing a regression analysis on a group basis for a plurality of groups formed from a first plurality of bands forming an error frame and concealing an error in the error frame by using the parameter predicted on a group basis. | 06-06-2013 |
20130226565 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ENCODING AND DECODING SIGNALS - A method of encoding an audio signal, where signals including two or more channel signals are downmixed to a mono signal, the mono signal is divided into a low-frequency signal and a high-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal is encoded through algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP) or transform coded excitation (TCX), and the high-frequency signal is encoded using the low-frequency signal. A method of decoding of an audio signal, a low-frequency signal encoded through ACELP or TCX is decoded, a high-frequency signal is decoded using the low-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal and the high-frequency signal are combined to generate a mono signal, and the mono signal is upmixed by decoding spatial parameters regarding signals including two or more channel signals. | 08-29-2013 |
20130282368 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING/DECODING FOR HIGH FREQUENCY BANDWIDTH EXTENSION - A method and apparatus for performing coding and decoding for high-frequency bandwidth extension. The coding apparatus may down-sample an input signal, perform core coding on the down-sampled input signal, perform frequency transformation on the input signal, and perform bandwidth extension coding by using a base signal of the input signal in a frequency domain. | 10-24-2013 |
20130297322 | ERROR CONCEALMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO SIGNAL AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO SIGNAL USING THE SAME - An error concealment method and apparatus for an audio signal and a decoding method and apparatus for an audio signal using the error concealment method and apparatus. The error concealment method includes selecting one of an error concealment in a frequency domain and an error concealment in a time domain as an error concealment scheme for a current frame based on a predetermined criteria when an error occurs in the current frame, selecting one of a repetition scheme and an interpolation scheme in the frequency domain as the error concealment scheme for the current frame based on a predetermined criteria when the error concealment in the frequency domain is selected, and concealing the error of the current frame using the selected scheme. | 11-07-2013 |
20140012589 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ENCODE AND DECODE AN AUDIO/SPEECH SIGNAL - A method and apparatus to encode and decode an audio/speech signal is provided. An inputted audio signal or speech signal may be transformed into at least one of a high frequency resolution signal and a high temporal resolution signal. The signal may be encoded by determining an appropriate resolution, the encoded signal may be decoded, and thus the audio signal, the speech signal, and a mixed signal of the audio signal and the speech signal may be processed. | 01-09-2014 |
20140074461 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING SPEECH SIGNAL USING CODING MODE - An apparatus and a method to encode and decode a speech signal using an encoding mode are provided. An encoding apparatus may select an encoding mode of a frame included in an input speech signal, and encode a frame having an unvoiced mode for an unvoiced speech as the selected encoding mode. | 03-13-2014 |
20140108008 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AUDIO/SPEECH SIGNAL - Provided is a method of encoding an audio/speech signal, the method including determining a variable length of a frame, that is, a processing unit of an input signal in accordance with a position of an attack in the input signal; transforming each frame of the input signal to a frequency domain and dividing the frame into a plurality of sub frequency bands; and, if a signal of a sub frequency band is determined to be encoded in the frequency domain, encoding the signal of the sub frequency band in the frequency domain, and if the signal of the sub frequency band is determined to be encoded in a time domain, inverse transforming the signal of the sub frequency band to the time domain and encoding the inverse transformed signal in the time domain. According to the present invention, the audio/speech signal may be efficiently encoded by controlling time resolution and frequency resolution. | 04-17-2014 |
20140142957 | FRAME ERROR CONCEALMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND AUDIO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Disclosed are a frame error concealment method and apparatus and an audio decoding method and apparatus. The frame error concealment (FEC) method includes: selecting an FEC mode based on at least one of a state of at least one frame and a phase matching flag, with regard to a time domain signal generated after time-frequency inverse transform processing; and performing corresponding time domain error concealment processing on the current frame based on the selected FEC mode, wherein the current frame is an error frame or the current frame is a normal frame when the previous frame is an error frame. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149124 | APPARATUS, MEDIUM AND METHOD TO ENCODE AND DECODE HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNAL - A method and apparatus to encoding or decoding an audio signal is provided. In the method and apparatus, a noise-floor level to use in encoding or decoding a high frequency signal is updated according to the degree of a voiced or unvoiced sound included in the signal. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156286 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ENCODING AND DECODING SIGNALS - A method of encoding an audio signal, where signals including two or more channel signals are downmixed to a mono signal, the mono signal is divided into a low-frequency signal and a high-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal is encoded through algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP) or transform coded excitation (TCX), and the high-frequency signal is encoded using the low-frequency signal. A method of decoding of an audio signal, a low-frequency signal encoded through ACELP or TCX is decoded, a high-frequency signal is decoded using the low-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal and the high-frequency signal are combined to generate a mono signal, and the mono signal is upmixed by decoding spatial parameters regarding signals including two or more channel signals. | 06-05-2014 |
20140245091 | FRAME ERROR CONCEALMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A frame error concealment method and apparatus and a decoding method and apparatus using the same. The frame error concealment method includes setting a concealment method to conceal an error based on one or more signal characteristics of an error frame having the error and concealing the error using the set concealment method. | 08-28-2014 |