Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100161087 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATION AND PLAYBACK OF OBJECT BASED AUDIO CONTENTS - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of providing contents. The apparatus of providing the contents may include a receiving unit to receive, from a contents provider, contents and information about a contents providing location, a local group setting unit to search for at least one cell based on the information about the contents providing location and to set the retrieved cell as a content providing location group of the contents, and a transmitting unit to transmit the contents to the set content providing location group. The object based audio contents may be consecutively replayed based on an identical audio preset. | 06-24-2010 |
20110069934 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING OBJECT BASED AUDIO FILE, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PLAYING BACK OBJECT BASED AUDIO FILE - Provided are an apparatus and method for providing an object based audio file, and an apparatus and method for playing back an object based audio file. The object based audio file producing apparatus may include a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream about an object based audio file including a plurality of audio object frames and a file header for an object based audio service; and a bitstream transmitter to transmit the bitstream to the object based audio file playback apparatus. The plurality of audio object frames may include a frame storing a audio source in which all of a plurality of audio frames is mixed and a frame storing each of the audio objects. | 03-24-2011 |
20110311060 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING UNIFIED SOUND SOURCE - Disclosed are a method and a system of separating and extracting unified major sound sources from a mixed musical signal. A unified sound source separation system includes a first sound source separation unit to separate a first sound source having unique time-domain and frequency-domain characteristics from a mixed musical signal which includes a plurality of sound sources using time-domain and frequency-domain characteristics, and a second sound source separation unit to separate a second sound source existing in a predetermined stereo sound image position from the mixed musical signal using stereo channel information. | 12-22-2011 |
20120078642 | ENCODING METHOD AND ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD AND DECODING DEVICE AND TRANSCODING METHOD AND TRANSCODER FOR MULTI-OBJECT AUDIO SIGNALS - A method of encoding a multi-object audio signal and an encoding apparatus, a decoding method and a decoding apparatus, and a transcoding method and a transcoder are provided. A multi-object audio signal encoding apparatus may encode object signals obtained by excluding ForeGround Objects (FGOs) from a plurality of input object signals, and may encode the FGOs, thereby providing a listener with a satisfactory sound quality. | 03-29-2012 |
20120093323 | AUDIO SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DOWN MIXING AUDIO SIGNALS USING THE SAME - An audio system that provides an optimized sense of realism and an optimized three-dimensional effect to a user, the audio system including: a horizontal plane speaker set including a center channel speaker that is disposed at a reference point, a left channel speaker and a right channel speaker that are disposed at points in right and left directions of the reference point, and at least one first channel speaker and at least one second channel speaker that are disposed in right and left directions of the reference point, respectively; and a vertical plane speaker set including a left height channel speaker and a right height channel speaker that are respectively disposed in right and left directions of the reference point and in a vertical direction of the reference point, and a center height channel speaker that is disposed in the vertical direction of the reference point. | 04-19-2012 |
20120093341 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING SOUND SOURCE - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for separating sound sources capable of learning distributions of corresponding sound sources based on the assumption that specific sound sources have specific distributions based on interchannel correlation parameter in audio signals providing space perception through a plurality of channels to separate an amount corresponding to energy contribution of the corresponding sound sources from mixture signals. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can more precisely predict the channel distributions of the specific sound sources included in the input mixture signals and more accurately separate sound sources than a method for separating a sound source based on the channel according to the related art, under conditions that general channel distribution information of the specific sound sources are approximately modeled. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095729 | KNOWN INFORMATION COMPRESSION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING SOUND SOURCE - A known information compression apparatus and method for reducing a size of known information without missing information required to separate a sound source are provided. The known information compression apparatus may include a segment dividing unit to divide known information including sound source information of each musical instrument into a plurality of segments, and a compressed information generating unit to downmix the segments and to generate compressed information. | 04-19-2012 |
20120101608 | OBJECT-BASED AUDIO SYSTEM, OBJECT-BASED AUDIO PROVIDING METHOD, AND OBJECT-BASED AUDIO PLAYING METHOD USING PRESET FUNCTION - An object-based audio system, an object-based audio providing method, and an object-based audio playback method using a preset are provided. The object-based audio system includes a reference information providing unit to provide reference information used to refer to a storage location of an object-based audio file, and a preset information providing unit to provide preset information used to control at least one audio object forming the object-based audio file. | 04-26-2012 |
20120114153 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF REPRODUCING SURROUND WAVE FIELD USING WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS BASED ON SPEAKER ARRAY - Disclosed are an apparatus and method of surround wave field synthesizing a multi-channel signal excluding sound image localization information. A wave field synthesis and reproduction apparatus may include a signal classification unit to classify an inputted multi-channel signal into a primary signal and an ambient signal, a sound image localization information estimation unit to estimate sound image localization information of the primary signal and sound image localization information of the ambient signal, and a rendering unit to render the primary signal and the ambient signal based on the sound image localization information of the primary signal, the sound image localization information of the ambient signal, and listener environment information. | 05-10-2012 |
20120163609 | APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF - A multi-channel audio signal transmitting apparatus of the present invention includes an encoding unit configured to encode a predetermined audio signal and a controller configured to transmit the encoded audio signal to a predetermined device based on an HDAI (high definition audio interface) protocol. | 06-28-2012 |
20120209600 | INTEGRATED VOICE/AUDIO ENCODING/DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD WHEREBY THE OVERLAP REGION OF A WINDOW IS ADJUSTED BASED ON THE TRANSITION INTERVAL - A Unified Speech and Audio Codec (USAC) for adjusting an overlap area of a window based on a transition is provided. To increase an encoding efficiency, encoding may be performed by overlapping relatively long windows. Additionally, when a transition is generated between frames, an overlap area of a window may be reduced based on the transition, thereby preventing a noise from occurring due to the transition. | 08-16-2012 |
20120269349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOUND FIELD - Provided is a method and apparatus for reproducing a three-dimensional (3D) sound field. A method of reproducing a 3D sound field may determine a control region based on a wavelength of an excitation frequency, set, based on a loudspeaker array, at least one candidate control point in the control region, and determine a non-uniform control point corresponding to a non-uniform loudspeaker. | 10-25-2012 |
20120277894 | AUDIO AUTHORING APPARATUS AND AUDIO PLAYBACK APPARATUS FOR AN OBJECT-BASED AUDIO SERVICE, AND AUDIO AUTHORING METHOD AND AUDIO PLAYBACK METHOD USING SAME - An audio producing apparatus and an audio playing apparatus for an object-based audio service, and an audio producing method and an audio playing method using the same are provided. The producing apparatus and the audio playing apparatus supplies the object-based audio service, using audio object signals corresponding to a number of audio channels processable by the audio playing apparatus. | 11-01-2012 |
20120291611 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING MUSICAL SOUND SOURCE USING TIME AND FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS - A method and apparatus for separating and extracting main sound sources from a mixed musical sound signal are provided. A musical sound source separation apparatus may include an prior information signal compressor to compress an prior information signal including a characteristic of a predetermined sound source, a mixed signal divider to divide a mixed signal including a plurality of sound sources into a plurality of segments, a Nonnegative Matrix Partial Co-Factorization (NMPCF) analyzer to acquire common information shared by the plurality of segments, by applying an NMPCF algorithm to the prior information signal, and a target musical instrument signal separator to separate a target musical instrument signal corresponding to the predetermined sound source from the mixed signal, based on the common information. | 11-22-2012 |
20130170646 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AUDIO OBJECT - An apparatus and method for transmitting a plurality of audio objects using a multichannel encoder and a multichannel decoder are provided. The audio object encoder includes a multichannel encoder determination unit to determine a multichannel encoder to be used for encoding of a plurality of audio objects according to the number of the audio objects, an encoding unit to generate an encoded signal by encoding the plurality of audio objects using the determined multichannel encoder, and a multichannel audio object signal generation unit to generating a multichannel audio object signal, by multiplexing sound image localization information of the plurality of audio objects along with the encoded signal. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170651 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EDITING MULTICHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL - An apparatus and method for generating a multichannel audio signal showing a 3-dimensional (3D) effect by editing an existing multichannel audio signal. The apparatus may include an output location determiner to determine location to output an object audio signal using editing information of the object audio signal, and a multichannel object audio signal generator to generate a multichannel object audio signal by allocating the object audio signal to channels corresponding to the location to output the object audio signal. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170652 | FRONT WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS (WFS) SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SURROUND SOUND USING 7.1 CHANNEL CODEC - Provided is a system and method for front wave field synthesis (WFS) to provide a surround sound with a reduced number of loudspeakers. An apparatus for encoding a front WFS signal in the front WFS system may include a content receiving unit to receive WFS content including the first channels corresponding to a front array speaker and the second channels corresponding to a rear surround sound speaker, and an encoding unit to encode the first channels and the second channels using a multichannel encoder corresponding to the number of the channels included in the WFS content. | 07-04-2013 |
20130266068 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING MOVING PICTURE USING ADAPTIVE SCANNING - Provided is an apparatus and method for encoding/decoding a moving picture based on adaptive scanning. The moving picture apparatus and method can increase a compression rate based on adaptive scanning by performing intra prediction onto blocks of a predetermined size, and scanning coefficients acquired from Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) of a residue signal and quantization differently according to the intra prediction mode. The moving picture encoding apparatus includes: a mode selector for selecting and outputting a prediction mode; a predictor for predicting pixel values of pixels to be encoded of an input video based on the prediction mode to thereby output a residue signal block; a transform/quantization unit for performing DCT onto the residue signal block and quantizing the transformed residue signal block; and an encoder for adaptively scanning and encoding the quantized residue signal block based on the prediction mode. | 10-10-2013 |
20130272525 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUDIO METADATA, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUDIO DATA, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING AUDIO DATA - An apparatus for providing audio metadata, the apparatus including an audio data generating unit to generate audio metadata including channel information of raw audio data, and an audio metadata transmitting unit to transmit the generated audio metadata to an apparatus for reproducing audio data. | 10-17-2013 |
20130294607 | BROADCAST TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND BROADCAST TRANSMITTING METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN OBJECT-BASED AUDIO, AND BROADCAST PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND BROADCAST PLAYBACK METHOD - A broadcast transmitting apparatus and method, and a broadcast playback apparatus and method for providing an object-based audio by encoding and decoding a multichannel audio signal are provided. The broadcast transmitting apparatus may generate audio identification information used to determine whether the multichannel audio signal is an object-based audio signal. When the multichannel audio signal is determined to be the object-based audio signal, based on the audio identification information, the broadcast playback apparatus may control and output the multichannel audio signal for each channel. | 11-07-2013 |
20130322666 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNAL AND AUDIO PLAYBACK SYSTEM - A Method for processing an audio signal to use a beamforming technique in a three-dimensional (3D) space is disclosed. The method may include generating a beamforming signal on a horizontal plane related to a sound source in a three-dimensional (3D) space and modulating the beamforming signal to head for a listener in the 3D space from the sound source. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325476 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS SIGNALS - An apparatus and method for generating a wave field synthesis (WFS) signal in consideration of a height of a speaker are disclosed. The WFS signal generation apparatus may include a waveform propagation distance determination unit to determine a propagation distance of a waveform propagate from a sound source based on a height of a speaker, and a WFS signal generation unit to generate a WFS signal corresponding to the speaker using the propagation distance of the waveform. | 12-05-2013 |
20140056430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING WAVE FIELD USING SOUND BAR - Disclosed is a system and method for reproducing a wave field that reproduces a wave field using a sound bar, the system including an input signal analyzer to divide an input signal into an audio signal for a plurality of channels, and identify a position of a loud speaker corresponding to the plurality of channels, a rendering unit to process the audio signal for the plurality of channels, using a rendering algorithm based on the position, and generate an output signal, and a loud speaker array to output the output signal using loud speakers corresponding to the plurality of channels, and reproduce a wave field. | 02-27-2014 |
20140140515 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MULTIMEDIA DATA, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PLAYING MULTIMEDIA DATA - An apparatus and method for generating multimedia data and an apparatus and method for playing multimedia data are disclosed. The apparatus for generating the multimedia data may include a spatial information identification unit to identify spatial information for a plurality of channels of a multi-channel audio signal, and a multimedia data generation unit to generate multimedia data including the spatial information, and the apparatus for playing the multimedia data may include a spatial information analysis unit to analyze spatial information for a plurality of channels of a multi-channel audio signal included in multimedia data, and a multimedia data playback unit to play multimedia data, based on the spatial information. | 05-22-2014 |
20140244244 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING FREQUENCY SPECTRUM USING SOURCE FILTER - A frequency spectrum processing apparatus and method using a source filter are disclosed. The frequency spectrum processing apparatus may include a first excitation spectrum generation unit to generate a first excitation spectrum using a tonal excitation spectrum according to an input signal and a gain of the tonal excitation spectrum, a second excitation spectrum generation unit to generate a second excitation spectrum using a non-tonal excitation spectrum according to the input signal and a gain of the non-tonal excitation spectrum, and an output spectrum generation unit to generate an output spectrum using the first excitation spectrum and the second excitation spectrum. | 08-28-2014 |
20140260899 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESCRIBING AND RESTORING JUNGGANBO - Provided is a method and apparatus for describing and restoring a jungganbo, the method of describing a jungganbo including analyzing a structure of the jungganbo based on gaks, daegangs, and junggans constituting the jungganbo, and generating jungganbo structure data describing the structure of the jungganbo, based on a result of the analyzing. | 09-18-2014 |
20140310010 | APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING SUPPORTING SCALABLE MULTICHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL, AND METHOD FOR APPARATUSES PERFORMING SAME - An encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus supporting a scalable multichannel audio signal, and methods performed by the apparatuses art provided. When compressing and decompressing a multichannel audio signal to compress and reproduce high quality 3-dimensional (3D) audio, the apparatuses and the methods in integrated form of (1) a sound quality scalability function for providing various qualities of audio adaptively to a transmission environment, terminal performance, and a listening environment (2) a channel scalability function for providing multichannel signals of various formats adaptively to the transmission environment, the terminal performance, and a reproduction environment of a terminal, such as speaker arrangement, and (3) an object scalability function for independently controlling a particular audio object to maximize a 3D sound field effect. | 10-16-2014 |
20140314250 | POSITION ESTIMATION SYSTEM USING AN AUDIO-EMBEDDED TIME-SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL AND POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD USING THE SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method of estimating a position by a position estimation system. The method includes generating a time-synchronization signal for position determination using a genetic algorithm, embedding the generated time-synchronization signal in an audio signal, and replaying the audio signal embedded with the time-synchronization signal through a speaker, receiving the audio signal embedded with the time-synchronization signal in a microphone, calculating a time delay value of the time-synchronization signal embedded in the received audio signal, and estimating a position of the microphone based on the calculated time delay value. | 10-23-2014 |
20140372130 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING MULTICHANNEL SIGNAL - Provided is an apparatus and method for converting a | 12-18-2014 |
20150025894 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF MULTI CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL, ENCODER AND DECODER - Provided are a method of encoding and decoding a multichannel audio signal, and an encoder and a decoder to perform the method. The present invention may perform encoding into consideration of a size of bit to be allocated based on a feature of audio signal for each channel with respect to an audio signal having a plurality of channels, thereby enhancing an encoding efficiency of the multichannel audio signal. | 01-22-2015 |
20150030160 | BINAURAL RENDERING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING MULTI CHANNEL AUDIO - Disclosed is a binaural rendering method and apparatus for decoding a multichannel audio signal. The binaural rendering method may include: extracting an early reflection component and a late reverberation component from a binaural filter; generating a stereo audio signal by performing binaural rendering of a multichannel audio signal base on the early reflection component; and applying the late reverberation component to the generated stereo audio signal. | 01-29-2015 |
20150063574 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL - An apparatus and method for separating a multi-channel audio signal that separates a multi-channel audio signal into a plurality of sound source objects is disclosed, the apparatus including a multi-channel stereo transformer to transform a multi-channel audio signal into a plurality of stereo signals, and a stereo sound source separator to separate the plurality of stereo signals into a plurality of sound source objects. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066518 | AUDIO ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AUDIO DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND AUDIO REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An audio encoding apparatus and method that encodes hybrid contents including an object sound, a background sound, and metadata, and an audio decoding apparatus and method that decodes the encoded hybrid contents are provided. The audio encoding apparatus may include a mixing unit to generate an intermediate channel signal by mixing a background sound and an object sound, a matrix information encoding unit to encode matrix information used for the mixing, an audio encoding unit to encode the intermediate channel signal, and a metadata encoding unit to encode metadata including control information of the object sound. | 03-05-2015 |