Decoding method and decoder for audio signal according to gain gradient

• US 10,102,862 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2015
• Issued: 10/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wang, Bin, Miao, Lei, Liu, Zexin
• Primary Examiner(s): Roberts, Shaun
• Application Number:
  US14/985,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20160118055A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• Field of Search: 704205, 704208, 704500
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/005 Correction of errors induced by the transmission channel, if related to the coding algorithm
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0208 Subband vocoders
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/0232 Processing in the frequency domain
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/0388 Details of processing therefor

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a decoding method and a decoding apparatus. The decoding method includes: in a case in which it is determined that a current frame is a lost frame, synthesizing a high frequency band signal; determining subframe gains of multiple subframes of the current frame; determining a global gain of the current frame; and adjusting, according to the global gain and the subframe gains of the multiple subframes, the synthesized high frequency band signal to obtain a high frequency band signal of the current frame. A subframe gain of the current frame is obtained according to a gradient between subframe gains of subframes previous to the current frame, so that transition before and after frame loss is more continuous, thereby reducing noise during signal reconstruction, and improving speech quality.

Claims

1. A decoding method for decoding an audio signal, comprising:

synthesizing a high frequency band signal according to a decoding result of a previous frame of a current frame of the audio signal;

determining a first gain gradient between a last subframe of the previous frame and a start subframe of the current frame according to a gain gradient between subframes of the previous frame of the current frame;

determining the subframe gain of the start subframe of the current frame according to a subframe gain of the last subframe of the previous frame of the current frame and the first gain gradient;

determining a subframe gain of another subframe according to the gain gradient between the subframes of the previous frame of the current frame;

determining a global gain of the current frame;

adjusting, according to the global gain and the subframe gains of the current frame, the synthesized high frequency band signal; and

obtaining, based upon the adjustment of the synthesized high frequency band signal, a high frequency band signal of the current frame.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining the first gain gradient comprises:

performing weighted averaging on a gain gradient between at least two subframes of the previous frame of the current frame, to obtain the first gain gradient, wherein when the weighted averaging is performed, a gain gradient between subframes of the previous frame of the current frame that are closer to the current frame occupies a larger weight.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining the first gain gradient comprises:

determining a gain gradient using a subframe previous to the last subframe of the previous frame of the current frame and the last subframe of the previous frame of the current frame.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining a global gain of the current frame comprises:

determining a global gain gradient of the current frame according to the frame class of the last frame received before the current frame and the quantity of consecutive lost frames previous to the current frame; and

estimating the global gain of the current frame according to the global gain gradient and a global gain of the previous frame of the current frame.

5. A decoding apparatus used for decoding an audio signal, comprising:

a processor, and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the processor, the programming instructions instruct the processor to;

synthesize a high frequency band signal according to a decoding result of a previous frame of a current frame of the audio signal,

determine a first gain gradient between a last subframe of a previous frame and a start subframe of the current frame according to a gain gradient between subframes of the previous frame of the current frame;

determine the subframe gain of the start subframe of the current frame according to a subframe gain of the last subframe of the previous frame of the current frame and the first gain gradient;

determine a subframe gain of another subframe according to the gain gradient between the subframes of the at least one frame previous to the current frame;

determine a global gain of the current frame, and

adjust, according to the global gain and the subframe gains of the current frame, the high frequency band signal, to obtain a high frequency band signal of the current frame.

6. The decoding apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the programming instructions instruct the processor to:

perform weighted averaging on a gain gradient between at least two subframes of the previous frame of the current frame to obtain the first gain gradient, wherein when the weighted averaging is performed, a gain gradient between subframes of the previous frame of the current frame that are closer to the current frame occupies a larger weight.

7. The decoding apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the programming instructions instruct the processor to:

use a gain gradient, between a subframe previous to the last subframe of the previous frame of the current frame and the last subframe of the previous frame of the current frame, as the first gain gradient.

8. The decoding apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the subframe gain of the start subframe of the current frame is estimated according to the subframe gain of the last subframe of the previous frame of the current frame and the first gain gradient, and the frame class of the last frame received before the current frame and the quantity of consecutive lost frames previous to the current frame.

9. The decoding apparatus according to claim 8, wherein a GainFrame=GainFrame_prevfrm*GainAtten, wherein GainFrame is the global gain of the current frame, GainFrame_prevfrm is the global gain of the previous frame of the current frame, 0<

GainAtten≤

1.0, GainAtten is the global gain gradient, and GainAtten is determined by using the frame class of the received last frame and the quantity of consecutive lost frames previous to the current frame.

10. The decoding apparatus according to claim 5, wherein a gain gradient between the at least two subframes of the current frame is estimated according to the gain gradient between the subframes of the at least one frame, and the subframe gain of the another subframe except for the start subframe in the at least two subframes is estimated according to the gain gradient between the at least two subframes of the current frame and the subframe gain of the start subframe of the current frame.