摘要:
Provided are an audio encoding device and an audio decoding device, by which optimal trade-off between code rates and sound quality can be flexibly adjusted. A variable frequency segmentation encoding unit (110) has: difference degree calculation units (101, 102, and 103) for calculating a difference degree between the first and second input signals, depending on a segmentation method A, B, or C for segmenting a frequency band into sub-bands; a selection unit (104) for selecting one of the segmentation methods; and a difference degree and segmentation information encoding unit (105) for encoding the selected method and the difference degree for each sub-band by the method. A variable frequency segment decoding unit (210) has: a segmentation information decoding unit 202 for decoding the segmentation information to learn the segmentation method; a switching unit (203) for outputting a difference degree code to one of difference degree decoding units corresponding to the segmentation method; and difference degree decoding units (204, 205, and 206), for decoding the difference degree code to the difference degree for each sub-band.
摘要:
Provided are an audio encoding device and an audio decoding device, by which optimal trade-off between code rates and sound quality can be flexibly adjusted. A variable frequency segmentation encoding unit includes: difference degree calculation units for calculating a difference degree between first and second input signals depending on a segmentation method for segmenting a frequency band into sub-bands; a selection unit for selecting one of the segmentation methods; and a difference degree and segmentation information encoding unit for encoding the selected method and the difference degree for each sub-band. A variable frequency segment decoding unit includes: a segmentation information decoding unit for decoding the segmentation information to learn the segmentation method; a switching unit for outputting a difference degree code corresponding to the segmentation method; and difference degree decoding units for decoding the difference degree code to the difference degree for each sub-band.
摘要:
An audio decoder which reproduces original signals from a bit stream including (i) a downmix signal of the original signals, and (ii) supplementary information indicating a gain ratio D and phase difference θ between the original signals. The audio decoder includes: a decoding unit extracting the downmix signal; a transformation unit transforming the extracted downmix signal into a frequency domain signal; a phase rotator determination unit determining two phase rotators having, as the phase rotation angles, angles α and β respectively obtained by dividing a contained angle by a diagonal of a parallelogram; a separation unit separating the frequency domain signal into two separation signals respectively indicating angles α and β as phase differences between the signals and the decoded downmix signal; and an inverse transformation unit inversely transforming the respective two separation signals into time domain signals so as to reproduce the two audio signals.
摘要:
An audio decoder which reproduces original signals from a bit stream including a downmix signal of the original signals and supplementary information indicating the gain ratio D and the phase difference θ between the original signals. The audio decoder which reproduces the original signals includes: a decoding unit (100) which extracts the downmix signal from the bitstream; a transformation unit (101) which transforms the extracted downmix signal into a frequency domain signal; a phase rotator determination unit (102) which determines two phase rotators having, as the phase rotation angles, angles α and β respectively obtained by dividing a contained angle by a diagonal of a parallelogram where the length ratio of two adjacent sides equals to the gain ratio D and the contained angle equals to the phase difference θ, a separation unit (103) which separates the frequency domain signal into two separation signals respectively indicating angles α and β as phase differences between the signals and the decoded downmix signal, and an inverse transformation unit (104) which inversely transforms the respective two separation signals into time domain signals so as to reproduce the two audio signals.
摘要:
An audio encoder, which is capable of encoding multiple-channel signals so that only a downmixed signal is decoded and of further generating specific auxiliary information necessary for dividing the downmixed signal, is provided. An audio encoder (10), which compresses and encodes audio signals of N-channels (N>1), includes a downmixed signal encoding unit (11) which encodes the downmixed signal obtained by downmixing the audio signals, and an auxiliary information generation unit (12a) which generates auxiliary information necessary for decoding the downmixed signal encoded by the downmixed signal encoding unit (11) into N-channel audio signals. The auxiliary information generation unit (12a) includes transformation units (121) and (122) which transform audio signals respectively into frequency domain signals, a detection unit (123) which detects phase difference information and gain ratio information each indicates a degree of difference between frequency domain signals, and a quantization unit (125) which quantizes, for each frequency band, the phase difference information and gain ratio information detected by the detection unit (123) using the quantization precision setting table (124). The quantization precision setting table (124) functions as a division unit which divides a frequency band of a frequency domain signal into plural sub-bands.
摘要:
An audio encoder, which is capable of encoding multiple-channel signals so that only a downmixed signal is decoded and of further generating specific auxiliary information necessary for dividing the downmixed signal, is provided.An audio encoder (10), which compresses and encodes audio signals of N-channels (N>1), includes a downmixed signal encoding unit (11) which encodes the downmixed signal obtained by downmixing the audio signals, and an auxiliary information generation unit (12a) which generates auxiliary information necessary for decoding the downmixed signal encoded by the downmixed signal encoding unit (11) into N-channel audio signals. The auxiliary information generation unit (12a) includes transformation units (121) and (122) which transform audio signals respectively into frequency domain signals, a detection unit (123) which detects phase difference information and gain ratio information each indicates a degree of difference between frequency domain signals, and a quantization unit (125) which quantizes, for each frequency band, the phase difference information and gain ratio information detected by the detection unit (123) using the quantization precision setting table (124). The quantization precision setting table (124) functions as a division unit which divides a frequency band of a frequency domain signal into plural sub-bands.
摘要:
To provide an acoustic signal processing apparatus which can reduce the amount of calculation in matrix arithmetic. An acoustic signal processing apparatus converts down-mixed acoustic signals of NI channels to acoustic signals of NO channels, where NO>NI. The acoustic signal processing apparatus includes: a first matrix arithmetic unit for performing arithmetic on a matrix with K rows and NI columns, where NO>K≧NI, for the down-mixed acoustic signals of the NI channels, and outputting K signals obtained after the matrix arithmetic; K decorrelation units for generating signals incoherent, in terms of time characteristics, with the signals obtained after the matrix arithmetic, while maintaining frequency characteristics of the signals obtained after the matrix arithmetic; and a second matrix arithmetic unit for performing arithmetic on a matrix with NO rows and (NI+K) columns for the down-mixed acoustic signals of the NI channels and for the K incoherent signals, and outputting the acoustic signals of the NO channels.
摘要:
Provided is a multi-channel acoustic signal processing device by which loads of arithmetic operations are reduced. The multi-channel acoustic signal processing device includes: a decorrelated signal generation unit, and a matrix operation unit and a third arithmetic unit. The decorrelated signal generation unit generates a decorrelated signal w′ indicating a sound which includes a sound indicated by an input signal x and reverberation, by performing reverberation processing on the input signal x. The matrix operation unit and the third arithmetic unit generate audio signals of m channels, by performing arithmetic operation on the input signal x and the decorrelated signal w′ generated by the decorrelated signal generation unit, using a matrix R3 which indicates distribution of a signal intensity level and distribution of reverberation.
摘要:
Provided is a multi-channel acoustic signal processing device by which loads of arithmetic operations are reduced. The multi-channel acoustic signal processing device (100) includes: a decorrelated signal generation unit (181), and a matrix operation unit (187) and a third arithmetic unit (186). The decorrelated signal generation unit (181) generates a decorrelated signal w′ indicating a sound which includes a sound indicated by an input signal x and reverberation, by performing reverberation processing on the input signal x. The matrix operation unit (187) and the third arithmetic unit (186) generate audio signals of m channels, by performing arithmetic operation on the input signal x and the decorrelated signal w′ generated by the decorrelated signal generation unit (181), using a matrix R3 which indicates distribution of a signal intensity level and distribution of reverberation.
摘要:
To provide an acoustic signal processing apparatus which can reduce the amount of calculation in matrix arithmetic.An acoustic signal processing apparatus (24) converts down-mixed acoustic signals of NI channels to acoustic signals of NO channels, where NO>NI. The acoustic signal processing apparatus includes: a first matrix arithmetic unit (241) for performing arithmetic on a matrix with K rows and NI columns, where NO>K≧NI, for the down-mixed acoustic signals of the NI channels, and outputting K signals obtained after the matrix arithmetic; K decorrelation units (242, 243) for generating signals incoherent, in terms of time characteristics, with the signals obtained after the matrix arithmetic, while maintaining frequency characteristics of the signals obtained after the matrix arithmetic; and a second matrix arithmetic unit (244) for performing arithmetic on a matrix with NO rows and (NI+K) columns for the down-mixed acoustic signals of the NI channels and for the K incoherent signals, and outputting the acoustic signals of the NO channels.