Encoding method, decoding method, encoder apparatus, decoder apparatus, and recording medium for processing pitch periods corresponding to time series signals

• US 10,049,679 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2017
• Issued: 08/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
• Inventors: Moriya, Takehiro, Harada, Noboru, Kamamoto, Yutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Huyen
• Application Number:
  US15/725,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20180040329A1
• Time in Patent Office: 313 Days
• Field of Search: 704200-230, 704500-504
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/032 Quantisation or dequantisation of spectral components
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/09 Long term prediction, i.e. removing periodical redundancies, e.g. by using adaptive codebook or pitch predictor

Abstract

In encoding, pitch periods for time series signals in a predetermined time interval are calculated, and a code corresponding thereto is output. In that encoding, the resolutions for expressing the pitch periods and/or a pitch period encoding mode are switched according to whether an index indicating a periodicity and/or stationarity level of the time series signals satisfies a condition indicating high or low in periodicity and/or stationarity. In that decoding, according to whether an index indicating a periodicity and/or stationarity level, the index being included in or obtained from an input code corresponding to the predetermined time interval, satisfies a condition indicating high periodicity and/or stationarity, a decoding mode for a code, included in the input code, corresponding to pitch periods is switched to decode the code corresponding to the pitch periods to obtain the pitch periods corresponding to the predetermined time interval.

Claims

1. An encoding method comprising steps of:

(A) obtaining pitch periods corresponding to time series signals included in a predetermined time interval; and

(B) outputting a code obtained by encoding the pitch periods expressed at a first quantization resolution when an index that indicates a level of stationarity of the time series signals does not satisfy a condition that indicates high stationarity, and otherwise outputting a code obtained by encoding the pitch periods expressed at a second quantization resolution which is higher than the first quantization resolution when the index satisfies the condition that indicates high stationarity;

wherein

the step (B) comprises searching the pitch periods in a first search range when the index does not satisfy the condition that indicates high stationarity, and otherwise searching the pitch periods in a second search range which is wider than the first search range when the index satisfies the condition that indicates high stationarity.

2. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having stored therein a program causing a computer to execute processing of the encoding method according to claim 1.

3. A decoding method comprising steps of:

(A) receiving a code corresponding to a predetermined time interval; and

(B) decoding a pitch code included in the code to obtain first pitch periods expressed at a first quantization resolution when an index that indicates a level of stationarity does not satisfy a condition that indicates high stationarity, and otherwise decoding the pitch code to obtain second pitch periods expressed at a second quantization resolution which is higher than the first quantization resolution when the index satisfies the condition that indicates high stationarity, the index being included in or obtained from the code corresponding to the predetermined time interval, the first and second pitch periods corresponding to the predetermined time interval;

wherein

the step (B) comprises decoding the pitch code to obtain the first pitch periods in a first search range when the index does not satisfy the condition that indicates high stationarity, and otherwise decoding the pitch code to obtain the second pitch periods in a second search range which is wider than the first search range when the index satisfies the condition that indicates high stationarity.

4. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having stored therein a program causing a computer to execute processing of the decoding method according to claim 3.

5. An encoder comprising:

processing circuitry configured to

obtain pitch periods corresponding to time series signals included in a predetermined time interval; and

output a code obtained by encoding the pitch periods expressed at a first quantization resolution when an index that indicates a level of stationarity of the time series signals does not satisfy a condition that indicates high stationarity, and otherwise output a code obtained by encoding the pitch periods expressed at a second quantization resolution which is higher than the first quantization resolution when the index satisfies the condition that indicates high stationarity;

wherein

the processing circuitry searches the pitch periods in a first search range when the index does not satisfy the condition that indicates high stationarity, and otherwise searches the pitch periods in a second search range which is wider than the first search range when the index satisfies the condition that indicates high stationarity.

6. A decoder comprising:

processing circuitry configured to

receive a code corresponding to a predetermined time interval; and

decode a pitch code included in the code to obtain first pitch periods expressed at a first quantization resolution when an index that indicates a level of stationarity does not satisfy a condition that indicates high stationarity, and otherwise decode the pitch code to obtain second pitch periods expressed at a second quantization resolution which is higher than the first quantization resolution when the index satisfies the condition that indicates high stationarity, the index being included in or obtained from the code corresponding to the predetermined time interval, the first and second pitch periods corresponding to the predetermined time interval;

wherein

the processing circuitry decodes the pitch code to obtain the first pitch periods in a first search range when the index does not satisfy the condition that indicates high stationarity, and otherwise decodes the pitch code to obtain the second pitch periods in a second search range which is wider than the first search range when the index satisfies the condition that indicates high stationarity.