Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for determining an encoding parameter for an audio channel signal of a multi-channel audio signal, the method comprising: determining a frequency transform of the audio channel signal; determining a frequency transform of a reference audio signal; determining inter channel differences for at least each frequency sub-band of a subset of frequency sub-bands, each inter channel difference indicating a phase difference or time difference between a band-limited signal portion of the audio channel signal and a band-limited signal portion of the reference audio signal in the respective frequency sub-band the inter-channel difference is associated to; determining a first average based on positive values of the inter-channel differences and determining a second average based on negative values of the inter-channel differences; and determining the encoding parameter based on the first average and on the second average.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for determining an encoding parameter for an audio channel signal of a multi-channel audio signal, the method comprising: determining for the audio channel signal a set of functions from the audio channel signal and a reference audio signal; determining a first set of encoding parameters based on a smoothing of the set of functions with respect to a frame sequence of the multi-channel audio signal, the smoothing being based on a first smoothing coefficient; determining a second set of encoding parameters based on a smoothing of the set of functions with respect to the frame sequence of the multi-channel audio signal, the smoothing being based on a second smoothing coefficient; and determining the encoding parameter based on a quality criterion with respect to the first set of encoding parameters and/or the second set of encoding parameters.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for performing an adaptive down-mixing of a multichannel audio signal comprising a number of input channels, wherein a signal adaptive transformation of said input channels is performed by multiplying the input channels with a downmix block matrix comprising a fixed block for providing a set of backward compatible primary channels and a signal adaptive block for providing a set of secondary channels
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for providing signal processing coefficients for processing an input signal at a predetermined signal processing sampling rate, wherein the input signal is received at an input signal sampling rate, the method comprising the steps of computing a correlation or covariance function based on the received input signal at the input signal sampling rate to provide correlation or covariance coefficients at the input signal sampling rate, re-sampling the computed correlation or covariance coefficients having the input signal sampling rate to provide correlation or covariance coefficients at the predetermined signal processing sampling rate, and calculating the signal processing coefficients based on the correlation or covariance coefficients at the predetermined signal processing sampling rate.
Abstract:
A voice quality enhancement (VQE) detector for a network element receiving an audio signal from a previous network element of a network, wherein said voice quality enhancement detector is adapted: to perform a voice quality enhancement detection based on the received audio signal, wherein said voice quality enhancement detection comprises detecting that at least one voice quality enhancement function, VQEF, was applied to the received audio signal by at least one previous network element of the network; and to control a voice quality enhancement processing of the received audio signal depending on the detection result.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for decoding a multichannel audio signal comprising the steps of receiving a downmix audio signal and an interchannel cross correlation parameter; deriving an interchannel phase difference parameter from the received interchannel cross correlation parameter; and calculating a decoded multichannel audio signal for the received downmix audio signal depending on the derived interchannel phase difference parameter.