Abstract:
A supporting and damping structure of a hard disk drive (HDD) that includes a housing and a printed circuit board (PCB) coupled to the housing. The supporting and damping structure includes extension parts extending from at least both edges of the PCB beyond the housing; and support members supporting the extension parts so that the HDD does not directly contact an electronic device in which the HDD is installed. The support members include dampers formed of a viscoelastic material and coupled to the extension parts and/or lower supporters and upper supporters respectively disposed on a base and a cover of the electronic device.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for encoding a multi-channel audio signal is provided. The method includes the operations of selecting a first variable length code table (VLC) that is to be used to encode the multi-channel audio signal in a given frequency band, from among a plurality of VLC tables, and encoding the multi-channel audio signal by using the first VLC table. Thus, the multi-channel audio signal can be encoded by using VLC tables that differ according to frequency bands.
Abstract:
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding the frequency of a continuation sinusoidal signal and a method and apparatus for decoding the same. In the encoding method, a continuation sinusoidal signal successive to a sinusoidal signal in a previous section is extracted from a current section; a frequency of the continuation sinusoidal signal at the boundary between the current and previous sections is changed to a first frequency, based on representative frequencies of the continuation sinusoidal signal and at least one sinusoidal signal that belongs to a section adjacent to the current section and is successive to the continuation sinusoidal signal; and the first frequency is encoded.
Abstract:
Provided are an encoding method and apparatus for efficiently encoding a sinusoidal signal whose magnitude is less than a masking value according to a psychoacoustic model, a decoding method and apparatus for decoding an encoded sinusoidal signal, and a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the encoding method/the decoding method. By using a particular code indicating that the magnitude of a first sinusoidal signal is less than a masking value according to a psychoacoustic model to encode the first sinusoidal signal, difference coding for a third sinusoidal signal of a next frame, which is connected to the first sinusoidal signal, is performed using a sinusoidal signal or sinusoidal signals selected according to a method to use the particular code, and a decoding apparatus obtains a sum with a transmitted difference using the selected sinusoidal signal(s).
Abstract:
A method of implementing an equalizer in an audio signal decoder and an apparatus therefor are provided. According to the method and apparatus, a signal output from an audio signal decoder is not processed by an equalizer, but the values of frequency components are adjusted according to a user's input before subband sample data is transformed into a frequency domain signal in an audio signal decoder, thereby implementing an equalizer in a codec. In this way, the complexity of implementing an apparatus for reproducing an audio signal can be reduced and delay of an equalizer can be reduced.
Abstract:
An actuator latch system of a hard disk drive (HDD) retains a rotatable swing arm of the HDD in place when a magnetic head of the HDD is parked. The actuator latch system includes a portion of the swing arm that defines a notch at an end portion of a swing arm, and a latch lever that has first and second hooks at one end thereof. The latch lever is disposed on the base member adjacent the end portion of the swing arm and is supported so as to be rotatable. The first hook is disposed to contact the swing arm within a short period of time after a shock transmitted to the swing arm while the magnetic head is parked causes the swing arm to rotate in one direction. Thus, the impulse on the swing arm is minimized and the reliability of the actuator latch system is enhanced.
Abstract:
Provided are audio encoding and decoding apparatuses capable of recovering a high-quality audio signal at a low bit rate. The audio encoding method includes: detecting at least one sinusoidal wave from an input audio signal; calculating components of additional basis vectors based on residual audio signals and the additional basis vectors of the sinusoidal wave; determining transmission of components of the additional basis vectors; and at least one of (a) encoding frequencies and (b) phases and amplitudes of the sinusoidal waves when the transmission of the components of the additional basis vectors are determined, wherein the residual audio signals are obtained by excluding the detected sinusoidal waves from the input audio signal.
Abstract:
Provided are methods and apparatuses for more efficiently encoding and decoding a high frequency band signal which is from an audio signal and which is greater than a predetermined threshold frequency. The method and apparatus for encoding the audio signal encodes a linear prediction coding (LPC) coefficient and gain information of a residual signal, which are generated by performing LPC analysis, thereby encoding a high frequency signal so as to have enhanced sound quality, while using less bits.
Abstract:
Provided are a method and apparatus for sinusoidal audio coding, which employs a tracking method for further effective coding of sinusoids extracted in the process of a sinusoidal analysis of parametric coding. The sinusoidal audio coding method includes: extracting sinusoids of a current frame by performing a sinusoidal analysis on an input audio signal; with respect to each of the extracted sinusoids, setting a mode selected from a birth mode in which a sinusoid is newly generated irrespective of sinusoids of a previous frame, a continuation mode in which the sinusoid is only one sinusoid continued from one of the sinusoids of the previous frame, and a branch mode in which the sinusoid is one of a plurality of sinusoids continued from one of the sinusoids of the previous frame; and coding the extracted sinusoids according to the selected mode. Accordingly, a plurality of sinusoids that can be continued from one previous track component are set to the continuation mode or the branch mode. Therefore, the number of bits of coded data is significantly reduced, compared with the case of the birth mode.
Abstract:
Provided is an audio encoding and decoding apparatus and method for improving a compression ratio while maintaining sound quality when sinusoidal waves of an audio signal are connected and encoded. The audio encoding method includes connecting sinusoidal waves of an input audio signal, converting a frequency of each of the connected sinusoidal waves to a psychoacoustic frequency, performing a first encoding operation for encoding the psychoacoustic frequency, performing a second encoding operation for encoding an amplitude of each of the connected sinusoidal waves, and outputting an encoded audio signal by mixing the encoding result of the first encoding operation and the encoding result of the second encoding operation.