Abstract:
A hybrid diffusion plate includes a plurality of sub diffusion plates facing one another and diffusing light, heat-insulating layers having heat conductivity lower than the sub diffusion plates and respectively interposed between each pair of adjacent sub diffusion plates, and a sealant applied between each pair of adjacent sub diffusion plates along an edge and bonding the sub diffusion plates to each other.
Abstract:
A multi-channel audio signal encoding and decoding method and apparatus are provided. The multi-channel audio signal encoding method, the method including: obtaining semantic information for each channel; determining a degree of similarity between multi-channels based on the obtained semantic information for each channel; determining similar channels among the multi-channels based on the determined degree of similarity between the multi-channels; and determining spatial parameters between the similar channels and down-mixing audio signals of the similar channels.
Abstract:
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding an audio signal by adaptively interpolating a linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficient. In the method and apparatus of encoding or decoding an audio signal, LPC coefficient interpolation is selectively performed depending on whether a transient section is present in a current frame, thereby preventing noise from occurring when interpolating LPC coefficients in the transient section.
Abstract:
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding an audio signal to efficiently encode a harmonic envelope and a method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal to decode the harmonic envelope. The method of encoding an audio signal includes performing harmonic analysis with respect to an input signal to determine harmonic parameters with respect to harmonic signals; regarding amplitudes of the harmonic signals included in the harmonic parameters as signals in the time domain so as to perform time-frequency transformation; and encoding the time-frequency transformed values. When expressing a harmonic envelope, the amplitudes of the harmonic signals are regarded as signals in the time domain so as to perform a time-frequency transformation and only a part from among the transformed values is selected to be encoded. Therefore, sound quality is not affected and coding efficiency greatly improves.
Abstract:
Provided are a diffusion plate assembly having light diffusion and heat blocking effects and requiring no diffusion plate supporter and a backlight assembly including the diffusion plate assembly. The diffusion plate assembly includes a first plate diffusing light; a second plate disposed to face a surface of the first plate and blocking heat transfer toward the first plate and a spacer interposed between the first plate and the second plate and separating the first plate and the second plate.
Abstract:
An audio reproducing method for quickly and correctly extracting extra data, including: receiving a data stream including the extra data including an end marker disposed immediately before main data and data length information, which is length information of the extra data, disposed immediately before the end marker; checking the presence/absence of the end marker; and if the end marker exists, extracting the extra data by using the data length information.
Abstract:
A method of encoding stereo audio that minimizes a number of pieces of side information required for parametric-encoding and parametric-decoding of the stereo audio. The side information may include parameters about interchannel intensity difference (IID), interchannel correlation (IC), overall phase difference (OPD), and interchannel phase difference (IPD), which are required to restore the mono audio to the stereo audio.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus which encode multi-channel audio signals and a method and apparatus which decode multi-channel audio signals. When encoding, a downmixed audio signal, first additional information for restoring multi-channel audio signals from the downmixed audio signal, and second additional information representing characteristics of a residual signal are multiplexed. When decoding, restored multi-channel audio signals having a predetermined phase difference are combined using the second additional information, and an audio signal of each channel is corrected, in order to improve quality of the restored audio signals.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a residual signal are provided. The encoding method includes generating a residual signal indicating a difference between a multi-channel audio signal, and an audio signal downmixed from the multi-channel audio signal and then upmixed by using additional information from the downmixed audio signal; and performing a parametric encoding method on the residual signal. The decoding method includes decoding a sinusoidal component; restoring a sine wave by using the sinusoidal component; dividing the sine wave into a plurality of sub-bands in a frequency domain; transforming the plurality of sub-bands from the frequency domain into a time domain by applying a window to each of the plurality of sub-bands; and synthesizing the plurality of domain-transformed sub-bands to restore a residual signal.
Abstract:
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding stereo audio. In the method for encoding stereo audio, stereo audio is encoded based on at least one of the phase difference between first and second channel audios and information on an angle made by a vector on the intensity of mono-audio and a vector on the intensity of the first channel audio or a vector on the intensity of the second channel audio. Thus, the number of encoded parameters is minimized so that a compression ratio in the encoding of the stereo audio is improved.