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7620545 Scale factor based bit shifting in fine granularity scalability audio coding  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a method coding audio signals in a base layer and an enhancement layer comprising the steps of quantizing the audio signals in spectral lines into...
7620543 Method, medium, and apparatus for converting audio data  
A method, medium, and apparatus for converting compressed audio data, including decoding compressed audio input data, in accordance with a corresponding compression format, coding a result of the...
7613609 Apparatus and method for encoding a multi-channel signal and a program pertaining thereto  
To encode multi-channel digital data by adjusting the number of bits allocated to each channel to perform entropy coding of the multi-channel data, there is provided a multi-channel encoder...
7613606 Speech codecs  
A method of encoding a frame in a communication network using multiple codec modes, wherein the frame encoded by each codec mode is represented by multiple parameters. The method includes at least...
7613605 Audio signal encoding apparatus and method  
An audio signal encoding apparatus includes a frame dividing unit ( 1 ), an auditory psychological arithmetic unit ( 2 ), a filter bank unit ( 3 ), a scale factor calculation unit ( 4 ) which...
7613603 Audio coding device with fast algorithm for determining quantization step sizes based on psycho-acoustic model  
An efficient audio coding device that quantizes and encodes digital audio signals with a reduced amount of computation. A spatial transform unit subjects samples of a given audio signal to a...
7606711 Audio signal processing device, signal recovering device, audio signal processing method and signal recovering method  
The pitch extracting part generates a pitch waveform signal in a manner making the time interval of the pitch of the input audio sound data to be the same. After the number of samples in each...
7606705 Speech data receiver with detection of channel-coding rate  
Disclosed is a system and method for channel decoding speech frames in a receiver capable of multiple (M) codec modes, wherein channel encoded speech frames include an inband bit portion and a...
7599835 Digital signal encoding method, decoding method, encoding device, decoding device, digital signal encoding program, and decoding program  
A down sampler 13 down samples a digital signal in the sampling frequency thereof from 96 kHz to 48 kHz on a frame-by-frame basis. The converted signal is compression encoded and output as a main...
7590543 Method for reduction of aliasing introduced by spectral envelope adjustment in real-valued filterbanks  
The present invention proposes a new method for improving the performance of a real-valued filterbank based spectral envelope adjuster. By adaptively locking the gain values for adjacent channels...
7577570 Method for reduction of aliasing introduced by spectral envelope adjustment in real-valued filterbanks  
The present invention proposes a new method for improving the performance of a real-valued filterbank based spectral envelope adjuster. By adaptively locking the gain values for adjacent channels...
7565289 Echo avoidance in audio time stretching  
A transient echo can be avoided during time stretching of a digital audio signal by detecting a transient in a frame of a digital audio signal, identifying another occurrence of the transient in a...
7543212 Low-density parity-check (LDPC) encoder  
The encoder chip of the present invention uses LDPC codes to encode input message data at a transmitting end, thereby generating a series of codewords. The encoder chip implements two low-density...
7498959 Apparatus and method of wideband decoding to synthesize a decoded excitation signal with a generated high frequency band signal  
Encoding and/or decoding a wideband signal produces high frequency band spectra from low frequency band spectral information. Linear prediction filter coefficients are determined for the entire...
7496517 Method and device for generating a scalable data stream and method and device for decoding a scalable data stream with provision for a bit saving bank function  
In a method for generating a scalable data stream from one or several blocks of output data of a first encoder and from one or several blocks of output data of a second encoder a determining data...
7469209 Method and apparatus for frame classification and rate determination in voice transcoders for telecommunications  
A method and apparatus for frame classification and rate determination in voice transcoders. The apparatus includes a classifier input parameter preparation module that unpacks the bitstream from...
7451080 Controlling apparatus and method for bit rate  
An apparatus and a method for controlling a bit rate are provided. The apparatus and method includes a buffer for storing information as to a bit rate of a frame immediately preceding a frame to be...
7437299 Coding of stereo signals  
A method of encoding a multichannel signal, such as a stereophonic audio signal, including at least first and second signal components includes transforming at least the first and second signal...
7437285 Adaptive media encoding and decoding equipment  
An encoding unit encodes data at a first rate during an initial predetermined section of uncompressed data (a), and encodes data at a second rate after the initial predetermined section (where the...
7433817 Apparatus and method applying adaptive spectral whitening in a high-frequency reconstruction coding system  
The present invention proposes a new method and a new apparatus for enhancement of audio source coding systems utilising high frequency reconstruction (HFR). It utilises adaptive filtering to...
7421376 Comparison of data signals using characteristic electronic thumbprints  
A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint...
7409338 Softbit speech decoder and related method for performing speech loss concealment  
A softbit speech decoder includes a speech loss concealment circuit receiving bit information, bit error probability data, and a speech information flag from an equivalent channel based on a...
7406412 Reduced computational complexity of bit allocation for perceptual coding  
A process that allocates bits for quantizing spectral components in a perceptual coding system is performed more efficiently by obtaining an accurate estimate of the optimal value for one or more...
7383180 Constant bitrate media encoding techniques  
CBR control strategies provide constant or relatively constant bitrate output with variable quality. The control strategies include various techniques and tools, which can be used in combination or...
7373293 Quantization noise shaping method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus for shaping quantization noise generated when compressing audio data at a low bit rate is disclosed. A predetermined quantization noise threshold allowed during quantization...
7373282 Fault severity check and source identification  
A fault severity check and source identification method for a frequency domain instrument accesses acquired reflection data for a transmission line under test. From the acquired data reflection...
RE40280 Rate loop processor for perceptual encoder/decoder  
A method and apparatus for quantizing audio signals is disclosed which advantageously produces a quantized audio signal which can be encoded within an acceptable range. Advantageously, the...
7363231 Coding device, decoding device, and methods thereof  
A coding device capable of improving the coding efficiency and a decoding device for decoding a code sequence generated by the coding device are provided. In the coding device, for each of the...
7349842 Rate-distortion control scheme in audio encoding  
An initial number of bits associated with an initial common scale factor is determined, an initial increment is computed using the initial number of bits and a target number of bits, and the...
7343287 Method and apparatus for scalable encoding and method and apparatus for scalable decoding  
An apparatus for scalable encoding a spectrum of a signal including audio and/or video information, with the spectrum comprising binary spectral values, includes a means for generating a first...
7343286 Method and apparatus for digital signal processing  
A method and an apparatus analogically output low-resolution digital signals to achieve an equal analog output result of a high-resolution digital signal under a request of signal quality. The...
7343285 Method to integrate user data into uncompressed audio data  
Methods for encoding user data into an audio file, and for decoding of the same, are provided. Embodiments include preparing user data for encoding into the audio file including writing user data...
7330812 Method and apparatus for transmitting an audio stream having additional payload in a hidden sub-channel  
Methods and apparatus are provided for communicating an audio stream. A perceptual mask is estimated for an audio stream, based on the perceptual threshold of the human auditory system. A hidden...
7330738 Apparatus and method for canceling residual echo in a mobile terminal of a mobile communication system  
An apparatus for canceling an echo signal in a mobile terminal of a mobile communication system. A double talk detector (DTD) receives a first signal by canceling an estimated echo signal from a...
7328152 Fast bit allocation method for audio coding  
A fast bit allocation algorithm for audio coding is disclosed. A virtual Huffman codebook model is referred in a trellis-based optimization approach to obtain a set of optimized scale factors, and...
7318027 Conversion of synthesized spectral components for encoding and low-complexity transcoding  
In an audio coding system, an encoding transmitter represents encoded spectral components as normalized floating-point numbers. The transmitter provides first and second control parameters that may...
7318026 Encoding apparatus and method, decoding apparatus and method, and recording medium recording apparatus and method  
An encoding method comprising the steps of forming a difference signal which is the difference between a first channel signal and a second channel signal of an input PCM signal, encoding the...
7315817 Sound encoder and sound decoder  
An sound encoder accepts a sound signal and then produces a plurality of codes which represent the sound signal on a frame-by-frame basis. The sound encoder determines the order in which the...
7315814 Method and apparatus providing adaptive multi-rate speech coding  
A wireless telecommunications system comprises a mobile station (MS) and a network. The mobile station has a multi-rate speech encoder which produces an encoded speech signal which is transmitted...
7313520 Adaptive variable bit rate audio compression encoding  
An adaptive variable bit rate audio encoder and method that examines audio level information and detects various information in the audio data in a psychoacoustic model to create a quantization...
7310596 Method and system for embedding and extracting data from encoded voice code  
When a voice encoding apparatus embeds any data in encoded voice code, the apparatus determines whether data embedding condition is satisfied using a first element code from among element codes...
7302386 Focused search method of fixed codebook and apparatus thereof  
There are provided a search method of a fixed codebook, and more particularly, a focused search method and apparatus thereof, for being applied to a speech codec for Voice over Internet Protocol...
7299172 Systems and methods for sound compression  
Embodiments of the invention achieve increased compression of audio data in comparison to prior art ADPCM compression schemes using modest processing power and resources. For one embodiment, an...
7295973 Quality control quantization loop and bitrate control quantization loop for quality and rate control for digital audio  
An audio encoder regulates quality and bitrate with a control strategy. The strategy includes several features. First, an encoder regulates quantization using quality, minimum bit count, and...
7277849 Efficiency improvements in scalable audio coding  
An audio encoding method of coding audio signals into a layered data stream having a first layer and a second layer is presented. The second layer serves as an enhancement of the first layer. The...
7275031 Apparatus and method for encoding an audio signal and apparatus and method for decoding an encoded audio signal  
When encoding an audio signal, the audio signal is first encoded with the first encoder to obtain a first encoder output signal. This first encoder output signal is written into a bit stream. It is...
7272566 Reducing scale factor transmission cost for MPEG-2 advanced audio coding (AAC) using a lattice based post processing technique  
A perceptual encoder divides an audio signal into successive time blocks, each time block is divided into frequency bands, and a scale factor is assigned to each of ones of the frequency bands....
7269564 Method and apparatus to indicate an encoding status for digital content  
A method of determining an encoding rate for digital content. According to the method, the a sample of the content data is encoded for a predetermined period of time. The encoding rate is...
7269554 Method, apparatus, and system for efficient rate control in audio encoding  
According to one aspect of the invention, a method is provided in which audio samples representing an input audio signal are received. The input audio samples are transformed into a vector of...
7263481 Method and apparatus for improved quality voice transcoding  
A method and apparatus for a voice transcoder that converts a bitstream representing frames of data encoded according to a first voice compression standard to a bitstream representing frames of...
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