Decoding device, decoding method, encoding device, encoding method, and program

• US 10,083,700 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2013
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hatanaka, Mitsuyuki, Chinen, Toru
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Bharatkumar S
• Application Number:
  US14/238,243
• Publication Number:
  US 20140214432A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,919 Days
• Field of Search: 704500
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/008 Multichannel audio signal coding or decoding using interchannel correlation to reduce redundancy, e.g. joint-stereo, intensity-coding or matrixing
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 2400/03 Aspects of down-mixing multi-channel audio to configurations with lower numbers of playback channels, e.g. 7.1 -> 5.1 H04S2400/01 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 3/008 in which the audio signals are in digital form, i.e. employing more than two discrete digital channels data reduction aspects thereof based on psychoacoustics G10L19/02

Abstract

The present technique relates to a decoding device, a decoding method, an encoding device, an encoding method, and a program which can obtain a high-quality realistic sound.

The encoding device stores speaker arrangement information in a comment region in a PCE of an encoded bit stream and stores a synchronous word and identification information in the comment region such that other public comments and the speaker arrangement information stored in the comment region can be distinguished from each other. When an encoded bit stream is decoded, it is determined whether the speaker arrangement information is stored on the basis of the synchronous word and the identification information stored in the comment region. Audio data included in the encoded bit stream is output according to the arrangement of the speakers corresponding to the determination result. The present technique can be applied to an encoding device.

Claims

1. A decoding device comprising:

processing circuitry that functions as;

an identification information detection unit configured to read identification information for identifying whether predetermined information related to audio data is stored in a comment region of a PCE (Program Configuration Element) field of an encoded bit stream of an AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) frame according to an AAC standard, wherein the predetermined information stored in the comment region of the PCE field includes height information about an arrangement of speakers in a vertical direction;

a reading unit configured to read the predetermined information from the comment region on the basis of a plurality of items of the identification information;

a decoding unit configured to decode the audio data based on the predetermined information; and

an output unit configured to output the decoded audio data.

2. The decoding device according to claim 1,

wherein first predetermined identification information and second identification information which is calculated on the basis of the predetermined information are stored as the identification information in the comment region.

3. The decoding device according to claim 2,

wherein the reading unit is configured to determine that the predetermined information is valid information when the first identification information included in the comment region is predetermined specific information and the second identification information read from the comment region is identical to the second identification information which is calculated on the basis of the read predetermined information.

4. The decoding device according to claim 3,

wherein, when the read first identification information is the predetermined specific information, the reading unit is configured to start to read the predetermined information that is arranged following the first identification information in the comment region.

5. The decoding device according to claim 4,

wherein the second identification information is calculated on the basis of information obtained by performing byte alignment for information including the predetermined information.

6. The decoding device according to claim 5,

wherein an arbitrary number of the predetermined information items in a predetermined range are included in the comment region, and

the reading unit determines that the predetermined information is invalid information when the information obtained by the byte alignment does not have a predetermined size.

7. A decoding method comprising:

reading, by processing circuitry, identification information for identifying whether predetermined information related to audio data is stored in a comment region of a PCE (Program Configuration Element) field of an encoded bit stream of an AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) frame according to an AAC standard, wherein the predetermined information stored in the comment region of the PCE field includes height information about an arrangement of speakers in a vertical direction;

reading, by the processing circuitry, the predetermined information from the comment region on the basis of a plurality of items of the identification information;

decoding the audio data based on the predetermined information; and

outputting the decoded audio data.

8. A computer-readable device encoded with computer-executable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, perform a process comprising:

reading identification information for identifying whether predetermined information related to audio data is stored in a comment region of a PCE (Program Configuration Element) field of an encoded bit stream of an AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) frame according to an AAC standard, wherein the predetermined information stored in the comment region of the PCE field includes height information about an arrangement of speakers in a vertical direction;

reading the predetermined information from the comment region on the basis of a plurality of items of the identification information;

decoding the audio data based on the predetermined information; and

outputting the decoded audio data.

9. An encoding device comprising:

processing circuitry that functions as;

an encoding unit configured to encode a plurality of identification information items for identifying whether predetermined information related to audio data is present, to encode the predetermined information and to encode the audio data; and

a packing unit configured to store the encoded predetermined information and the encoded identification information in a comment region of a PCE (Program Configuration Element) field of an encoded bit stream of an AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) frame according to an AAC standard, to store the encoded audio data in the encoded bit stream and to output the encoded bit stream, wherein the predetermined information stored in the comment region of the PCE field includes height information about an arrangement of speakers in a vertical direction.

10. The encoding device according to claim 9,

wherein first predetermined identification information and second identification information which is calculated on the basis of the predetermined information are stored as the identification information in the comment region.

11. The encoding device according to claim 10,

wherein the predetermined information is determined to be valid information when the first identification information included in the comment region is the predetermined specific information and the second identification information read from the comment region is identical to the second identification information which is calculated on the basis of the read predetermined information.

12. The encoding device according to claim 11,

wherein the predetermined information is arranged following the first identification information in the comment region, and

the predetermined information starts to be read when the read first identification information is the predetermined specific information.

13. The encoding device according to claim 12,

wherein information for instructing the execution of byte alignment for information including the predetermined information and information for instructing comparison between the second identification information which is calculated on the basis of information obtained by the byte alignment and the second identification information stored in the comment region are further stored in the comment region.

14. The encoding device according to claim 13,

wherein an arbitrary number of the predetermined information items in a predetermined range are stored in the comment region, and

the predetermined information is determined to be invalid information when the information obtained by the byte alignment does not have a predetermined size.

15. An encoding method comprising:

encoding, by processing circuitry, a plurality of identification information items for identifying whether predetermined information related to audio data is present, encoding the predetermined information and encoding the audio data; and

storing, by the processing circuitry, the encoded predetermined information and the encoded identification information in a comment region of a PCE (Program Configuration Element) field of an encoded bit stream of an AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) frame according to an AAC standard, storing the encoded audio data in the encoded bit stream and outputting the encoded bit stream, wherein the predetermined information stored in the comment region of the PCE field includes height information about an arrangement of speakers in a vertical direction.

16. A computer-readable device encoded with computer-executable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, perform a process comprising:

encoding a plurality of identification information items for identifying whether predetermined information related to audio data is present, encoding the predetermined information and encoding the audio data; and

storing the encoded predetermined information and the encoded identification information in a comment region of a PCE (Program Configuration Element) field of an encoded bit stream of an AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) frame according to an AAC standard, storing the encoded audio data in the encoded bit stream and outputting the encoded bit stream, wherein the predetermined information stored in the comment region of the PCE field includes height information about an arrangement of speakers in a vertical direction.