Coding device and method, decoding device and method, and program

• US 10,109,285 B2
• Filed: 08/27/2015
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Chinen, Toru, Hatanaka, Mitsuyuki, Tsuji, Minoru, Honma, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thang
• Application Number:
  US15/508,286
• Publication Number:
  US 20170309278A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,153 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/00 Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis in musical instruments G10H
• 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: G10L 19/02 using spectral analysis, e.g. transform vocoders or subband vocoders
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/03 Spectral prediction for preventing pre-echo; Temporary noise shaping [TNS], e.g. in MPEG2 or MPEG4
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/167 Audio streaming, i.e. formatting and decoding of an encoded audio signal representation into a data stream for transmission or storage purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/439 Processing of audio elementary streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8106 involving special audio data, e.g. different tracks for different languages

Abstract

The present technology relates to a coding device and method, and a decoding device and method, and a program capable of reducing the amount of calculations for decoding.

A separating unit separates a supplied bit stream into coded data of channel sources including a dialog source, coded data of additional data sources, and coded data of dialog information. A dialog information decoding unit decodes the coded data of the dialog information. When the dialog information acquired by the decoding is presented to a viewer, the viewer selects one source from the dialog source and some additional dialog sources. An additional dialog source decoding unit decodes only the coded data of an additional dialog source selected by the viewer. An additional dialog selection unit outputs a viewer-selected audio signal from among the audio signals of the dialog source and additional dialog sources in response to the selection instruction of the viewer. The present technology is applicable to coding devices and decoding devices.

Claims

1. A coding device comprising:

processing circuitry configured to;

code audio signals of a plurality of channel sources including a dialog source to generate coded data;

code an audio signal of an additional dialog source different from the dialog source to generate coded data; and

multiplex dialog information including information on the additional dialog source, the coded data of the plurality of the channel sources, and the coded data of the additional dialog source.

2. The coding device according to claim 1,

wherein the coded data of the additional dialog source and the dialog information are stored in a user data area in a bit stream acquired by the multiplexing.

3. The coding device according to claim 2,

wherein the user data area is a data stream element (DSE) defined in MPEG AAC or MPEG-D USAC.

4. The coding device according to claim 1,

wherein the dialog information includes information on the dialog source.

5. The coding device according to claim 4,

wherein the dialog information includes information indicating a type of the additional dialog source, and information indicating a type of the dialog source.

6. The coding device according to claim 4,

wherein the dialog information includes information indicating a channel of the dialog source among the channels of the audio signals of the plurality of the channel sources in a multichannel configuration.

7. The coding device according to claim 1,

wherein the dialog information includes gain information for making gain correction of the audio signal of the additional dialog source.

8. The coding device according to claim 1,

wherein the dialog information includes corrected gain information for making gain correction of audio signals of a plurality of additional dialog sources.

9. A coding method including the steps of:

coding audio signals of a plurality of channel sources including a dialog source to generate coded data;

coding an audio signal of an additional dialog source different from the dialog source to generate coded data; and

multiplexing dialog information including information on the additional dialog source, the coded data of the plurality of the channel sources, and the coded data of the additional dialog source.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform processing including the steps of:

coding audio signals of a plurality of channel sources including a dialog source to generate coded data;

coding an audio signal of an additional dialog source different from the dialog source to generate coded data; and

multiplexing dialog information including information on the additional dialog source, the coded data of the plurality of the channel sources, and the coded data of the additional dialog source.

11. A decoding device comprising:

processing circuitry configured to;

separate a coded bit stream into coded data of a plurality of channel sources including a dialog source, coded data of one or more additional dialog sources different from the dialog source, and dialog information including information on the one or more additional dialog sources;

select, based on user input, an additional dialog source from among the one or more additional dialog sources; and

decode the coded data of the additional dialog source selected from among the coded data of the one or more additional dialog sources.

12. The decoding device according to claim 11,

wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to decode the coded data of the plurality of the channel sources.

13. The decoding device according to claim 11,

wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to replace an audio signal acquired by decoding the coded data of the dialog source with an audio signal acquired by decoding the coded data of the selected additional dialog source, and

output the audio signal acquired by decoding the coded data of the selected additional dialog source.

14. The decoding device according to claim 11,

wherein the processing circuitry decodes the ceded data of the additional dialog source selected in response to presentation of the dialog information.

15. A decoding method including the steps of:

separating a coded bit stream into coded data of a plurality of channel sources including a dialog source, coded data of one or more additional dialog sources different from the dialog source, and dialog information including information on the one or more additional dialog sources;

selecting, based on user input, an additional dialog source from among the one or more additional dialog sources; and

decoding the coded data of the additional dialog source selected from among the coded data of the one or more additional dialog sources.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform processing including the steps of:

separating a coded bit stream into coded data of a plurality of channel sources including a dialog source, coded data of one or more additional dialog sources different from the dialog source, and dialog information including information on the one or more additional dialog sources;

selecting, based on user input, an additional dialog source from among the one or more additional dialog sources; and

decoding the coded data of the additional dialog source selected from among the coded data of the one or more additional dialog sources.