摘要:
It is envisaged to relieve the load imposed on the authentication processing as anonymity is maintained to prevent the leakage of the private information, such as taste information of a user. In an information acquisition system 1, a storage server 2 encrypts contents data and other information provided, in their entirety, using a common cipher key for data encryption DEK, and stores the encrypted information as encrypted data EN (DATA). The storage server 2 further encrypts the cipher key for data encryption DEK, as the key information of the encrypted data EN (DEK), using cipher key data KEK, and publicizes the encrypted data EN (DATA), encrypted with the cipher key for encryption DEK, and the encrypted key data EN (DEK), encrypted with the cipher key data KEK. An information processing terminal 3 encrypts the retrieval key word, by the cipher key data KEK, received from the management server 4, and retrieves the encrypted data EN (DATA), stored in the storage server 2, by the encrypted retrieval keyword EN (REF).
摘要:
If all original subbands are not selected for processing in conventional subband coders or decoders aliasing distortion is generated by the characteristics of their subband band-splitting filters or subband band synthesis filters. To improve sound quality in a subband decoder the decoded frequency components in the overlap region adjacent to a subband selected not to be decoded are band-limited prior to synthesis. Alternatively, in a subband coder the sound quality in a processed subband adjacent to one not to be coded is improved by band-limiting the filtering frequency overlap region between these subbands prior to coding. By thus decoding only the non-overlapping part of the subband adjacent to an omitted subband signal distortion is reduced.
摘要:
An apparatus for compressing a digital audio input signal to provide a compressed output signal. A circuit derives plural spectral coefficients from the input signal and groups the spectral coefficients into bands. A distributing circuit distributes a total available number of quantizing bits between signal spectrum-dependent quantizing bits and noise spectrum-dependent quantizing bits. A circuit determines a magnitude for each band, and, in response thereto, allocates the signal spectrum-dependent quantizing bits among the bands. This allocates to each band a number of signal spectrum-dependent quantizing bits for quantizing each spectral coefficient in the band. A circuit determines a subjectively-allowable noise spectrum and, in response thereto, allocates the noise spectrum-dependent quantizing bits among the bands. This allocates to each band a number of noise spectrum-dependent quantizing bits for quantizing each spectral coefficient in the band. A quantizing circuit quantizes the spectral coefficients in each band using a total number of quantizing bits determined by summing the number of signal spectrum-dependent quantizing bits allocated to the band and the number of noise spectrum-dependent quantizing bits allocated to the band. The distribution circuit sets the distribution ratio in response to a circuit that calculates the smoothness of the spectrum of the input signal. In this manner, optimum quantizing for both musical signals and single sine wave signals are given by a single processing operation, without the need to repeatedly adjust the quantizing bit allocation.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for processing an input digital signal in which an input digital audio signal at an input terminal 11 is supplied via a one-block delay unit 17 to a difference unit 20, an output of which is processed by noise-shaping circuit 21 and restored by a near-instantaneous compressor 26, a near-instantaneous expander 27 and an accumulator 28 so as to be fed back to the difference unit 20 to find a difference between a signal of a directly preceding sample and a signal of the current sample. The noise shaping circuit 21 modifies the spectrum of the quantization noise by taking aural characteristics, such as equal-loudness characteristics or masking characteristics, into account for diminishing the level of the quantization noise as perceived by the ear. The noise level as perceived may be reduced in a manner desirable for the sound quality without changing the existing format.
摘要:
Methods and apparatus for recording, reproducing, transmitting and/or receiving compressed data, and a recording medium therefor, utilize frequency dividing filters for dividing the frequency range of digital signals into plural frequency bands, orthogonal transform circuits for producing signal components in plural two-dimensional blocks along time and frequency, an adaptive bit allocation and encoding circuit for quantizing and compressing the information for each two-dimensional block and a bit allocation and calculating circuit. When recording the information together with information compressing parameters for each two-dimensional block, the information compressing parameters for at least two two-dimensional blocks are recorded collectively to avoid complicacy in the structure of the sampling frequency signal generating circuits or the like otherwise caused in case of providing plural sampling frequencies as well as to prevent an increase in hardware scale.
摘要:
A data compression apparatus for compressing a digital input signal to provide a compressed digital output signal. In the apparatus, a circuit derives plural spectral coefficients from the digital input signal, and groups the spectral coefficients into bands. An adaptive bit allocation circuit adaptively allocates a number of spectrum-dependent quantizing bits among the bands to allocate to each band a number of spectrum-dependent quantizing bits for quantizing each of the spectral coefficients in the band. The number of spectrum-dependent quantizing bits allocated to each band by the adaptive bit allocation circuit is determined according to the band magnitude, weighted depending on the band frequency.
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A signal encoding apparatus for cutting out blocks of an input signal waveform at a predetermined time interval and converting the in-block signal by mutually independent conversion axes for encoding, wherein the waveform cutting block length along the time axis is changed according to the input signal.
摘要:
An apparatus for encoding an input digital signal divides the input digital signal to produce frequency components of increasing bandwidth as the frequency increases, performs blocking on each of the frequency components to produce blocks of decreasing time length as the frequency increases, performs a fast Fourier transformation on each block and quantizes each block using a quantization characteristic set in accordance with a comparison of the energy of each frequency component in each block with a masking spectrum. The masking spectrum includes both a masking effect on the frequency base of the input signal and masking effect on the time base of the input signal and may further include effects of the minimum audible curve of the human hearing sense characteristic. Utilization of both the temporal and frequency masking effects permits reduction in the bit rate of the encoded signal using real time processing and without deterioration in sound quality.
摘要:
In an amplitude expanding/compressing circuit for expanding, compressing, or expanding and compressing an amplitude of an input signal, the following are provided:a control signal generator which receives an input signal and generates a control signal from said input signal;a signal multiplier for multiplying the control signal and the input signal to generate a multiplied output;a first subtracter for subtracting the input signal from the multiplied output to generate a first subtracter output signal;a signal processor which receives the first subtracter output signal and generates a processed output from said first subtracter output; anda second subtracter for subtracting the processed output from the multiplied output to obtain an amplitude expanded, amplitude compressed, or amplitude expanded and compressed output signal.
摘要:
A digital signal transmission device in which input digital signals consisting of a train of words that are continuous in time are formed into a block every after a predetermined number of words, and the block is transmitted through the so-called encode filter consists of a plurality of filters made up of an estimating unit of N-th degree and an estimating unit of a degree smaller than the N-th degree. Maximum absolute values in the blocks produced from the filters or maximum absolute values multiplied by coefficients are compared with one another, and by selecting a filter which minimizes the value, the input digital signals can be transmitted through filters that provide the greatest efficiency for each of the blocks, e.i., that produce the least estimated errors.