Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100135510 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND PLAYING OBJECT BASED AUDIO CONTENTS - Disclosed is an object based audio contents generating/playing apparatus. The object based audio contents generating/playing apparatus may include an object audio signal obtaining unit to obtain a plurality of object audio signals by recording a plurality of sound source signals, a recording space information obtaining unit to obtain recording space information with respect to a recording space of the plurality of sound source signals, a sound source location information obtaining unit to obtain sound location information of the plurality of sound source signals, and an encoding unit to generate object based audio contents by encoding at least one of the plurality of object audio signals, the recording space information, and the sound source location information, thereby enabling the object based audio contents to be played using at least one of a WFS scheme and a multi-channel surround scheme regardless of a reproducing environment of the audience. | 06-03-2010 |
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 |
20100215044 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING OF THE OBJECT-BASED AUDIO CONTENTS - The present invention relates to a system for transmitting and receiving audio, particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving of object-based audio contents, which packetizes audio objects having the same characteristic. To achieve the above, the present invention includes filtering a plurality of ESs according to common information, adding a packet header to the respective filtered ESs and generate ES packets, aggregating all the generated ES packets and then adding a multi-object packet header to the aggregated ES packets to generate an object packet, and multiplexing the generated object packet, packetizing the multiplexed object packet according to a transmitting media and transmitting the packetized object packet. | 08-26-2010 |
20100324915 | ENCODING AND DECODING APPARATUSES FOR HIGH QUALITY MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO CODEC - Provided is an encoding apparatus for a High Quality Multi-channel Audio Codec (HQMAC) and a decoding apparatus for the HQMAC. The encoding/decoding apparatuses for the HQMAC may perform a High Quality Multi-channel Audio Codec-Channel Based (HQMAC-CB) encoding or an HQMAC-CB decoding in accordance with characteristics of inputted audio signals to provide compatibility with a lower channel. | 12-23-2010 |
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 |
20110160886 | METHOD FOR FILE FORMATION ACCORDING TO FREEVIEW AV SERVICE - A method of creating a file according to a freeview audio/video (AV) service, the method including: creating a file header that includes content related information, AV object related information, preset related information, or preset information associated with at least one preset; creating audio object information associated with at least one audio object; creating video object information associated with at least one video object; and processing the file header, the audio object information, and the video object information into a preset format of a single freeview AV file to store the processed preset format of the freeview AV file is provided. | 06-30-2011 |
20120070021 | APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCTING WAVE FIELD USING LOUDSPEAKER ARRAY AND THE METHOD THEREOF - Provided is an apparatus and method for reproducing a wave field using a loudspeaker array. A loudspeaker array may be configured in front of and behind a listener, and a wave field synthesis rendering and a three-dimensional sound image localization rendering may be performed based on a position of a sound source. | 03-22-2012 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
20130077631 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING OF THE OBJECT-BASED AUDIO CONTENTS - The present invention relates to a system for transmitting and receiving audio, particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving of object-based audio contents, which packetizes audio objects having the same characteristic. To achieve the above, the present invention includes filtering a plurality of ESs according to common information, adding a packet header to the respective filtered ESs and generate ES packets, aggregating all the generated ES packets and then adding a multi-object packet header to the aggregated ES packets to generate an object packet, and multiplexing the generated object packet, packetizing the multiplexed object packet according to a transmitting media and transmitting the packetized object packet. | 03-28-2013 |
20130101122 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND PLAYING OBJECT BASED AUDIO CONTENTS - Disclosed is an object based audio contents generating/playing apparatus. The object based audio contents generating/playing apparatus may include an object audio signal obtaining unit to obtain a plurality of object audio signals by recording a plurality of sound source signals, a recording space information obtaining unit to obtain recording space information with respect to a recording space of the plurality of sound source signals, a sound source location information obtaining unit to obtain sound location information of the plurality of sound source signals, and an encoding unit to generate object based audio contents by encoding at least one of the plurality of object audio signals, the recording space information, and the sound source location information, thereby enabling the object based audio contents to be played using at least one of a WFS scheme and a multi-channel surround scheme regardless of a reproducing environment of the audience. | 04-25-2013 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |