Speech audio encoding device, speech audio decoding device, speech audio encoding method, and speech audio decoding method

• US 10,210,877 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2017
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kawashima, Takuya, Oshikiri, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Cyr, Leonard Saint
• Application Number:
  US15/848,841
• Publication Number:
  US 20180114535A1
• Time in Patent Office: 426 Days
• Field of Search: 704206, 704229, 704500-504
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/002 Dynamic bit allocation for perceptual audio coders G10L19/032
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/02 using spectral analysis, e.g. transform vocoders or subband vocoders
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0204 using subband decomposition
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0212 using orthogonal transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/032 Quantisation or dequantisation of spectral components
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/24 Variable rate codecs, e.g. for generating different qualities using a scalable representation such as hierarchical encoding or layered encoding
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/038 using band spreading techniques

Abstract

A speech/audio decoding apparatus is provided that includes a receiver that receives encoded data including a limited-band mode flag, and a memory that stores information on a position of a maximum amplitude spectrum frequency of a previous frame in a divided band. The speech/audio decoding apparatus also includes a processor that identifies whether a decoding band is encoded using a limited-band mode based on the decoded limited-band mode flag. Additionally, the processor decodes the spectrum in a limited band within each of the divided bands in a current frame using the stored information. Furthermore, the limited-band mode is set at an encoder side, when a difference between a first frequency with a first maximum amplitude in a spectrum of the divided band in a preceding frame and a second frequency with a second maximum amplitude in a spectrum of the divided band in the current frame is below a threshold.

Claims

1. A speech/audio decoding apparatus, comprising:

a receiver that receives encoded speech/audio data, including a limited-band mode flag;

a memory that stores information on a position of a maximum amplitude speech/audio spectrum frequency of a previous frame in a divided band; and

a processor that

identifies whether a decoding band is encoded using a limited-band mode based on the decoded limited-band mode flag,

wherein the limited-band mode is set at an encoder side, when a difference between a first frequency with a first maximum amplitude in a speech/audio spectrum of the divided band in a preceding frame and a second frequency with a second maximum amplitude in a speech/audio spectrum of the divided band in a current frame is below a threshold, a width of a limited band in the current frame being narrower than the divided band and the limited band including the first frequency, and

decodes the speech/audio spectrum in the limited band within each of the divided bands in the current frame using the stored information on the position of a maximum amplitude speech/audio spectrum frequency of the previous frame, when the decoding band is identified as the band encoded using the limited-band mode.

2. The speech/audio decoding apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processor generates the position information for decoding the speech/audio spectrum in the limited band within each of the divided bands in the current frame, the position information being so that the limited band width becomes centered on the position of a maximum amplitude speech/audio spectrum frequency of the previous frame.

3. The speech/audio decoding apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein one bit is used for indicating whether the limited-band mode is used as the limited-band mode flag.

4. The speech/audio decoding apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein when the decoding band is identified as the band encoded not using the limited-band mode, the processor does not perform band limitation and decodes all spectra of the band.

5. A speech/audio decoding method, comprising:

receiving, by a receiver, an encoded speech/audio data, including a limited-band mode flag;

storing information in a memory on a position of a maximum amplitude speech/audio spectrum frequency of a previous frame in a divided band;

identifying, by a processor, whether a decoding band is encoded using a limited-band mode based on the decoded limited-band mode flag,

wherein the limited-band mode is set at an encoder side, when a difference between a first frequency with a first maximum amplitude in a speech/audio spectrum of the divided band in a preceding frame and a second frequency with a second maximum amplitude in a speech/audio spectrum of the divided band in a current frame is below a threshold, a width of a limited band in the current frame being narrower than the divided band and the limited band including the first frequency, and

decoding, by the processor, the speech/audio spectrum in the limited band within each of the divided bands in the current frame using the stored information on the position of a maximum amplitude speech/audio spectrum frequency of the previous frame, when the decoding band is identified as the band encoded using the limited-band mode.

6. The speech/audio decoding method according to claim 5,

wherein the processor generates the position information for decoding the speech/audio spectrum in the limited band within each of the divided band in the current frame, the position information being so that the limited band width becomes centered on the position of a maximum amplitude speech/audio spectrum frequency of the previous frame.

7. The speech/audio decoding method according to claim 5,

wherein one bit is used for indicating whether the limited-band mode is used as the limited-band mode flag.

8. The speech/audio decoding method according to claim 5,

wherein when the decoding band is identified as the band encoded not using the limited-band mode, the processor does not perform band limitation and decodes all spectra of the band.