Noise filling and audio decoding

• US 10,276,171 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2017
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Mi-young, Oh, Eun-mi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan, Vijay B
• Application Number:
  US15/651,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20170316785A1
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• Field of Search: 704219, 704500-504, 7042001, 704229, 704230, 704214, 704221, 704203, 704208, 704220
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/002 Dynamic bit allocation for perceptual audio coders G10L19/032
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0204 using subband decomposition
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/028 Noise substitution, i.e. substituting non-tonal spectral components by noisy source comfort noise for discontinuous speech transmission G10L19/012
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/032 Quantisation or dequantisation of spectral components

Abstract

A noise filling method is provided that includes detecting a frequency band including a part encoded to 0 from a spectrum obtained by decoding a bitstream; generating a noise component for the detected frequency band; and adjusting energy of the frequency band in which the noise component is generated and filled by using energy of the noise component and energy of the frequency band including the part encoded to 0.

Claims

1. A noise filling method for decoding an audio signal comprising:

receiving a bitstream of an encoded signal;

decoding spectral coefficients of a plurality of subbands, from the bitstream;

determining, by at least one processor, whether bit allocation of a subband satisfies a predetermined condition;

when the bit allocation of the subband satisfies the predetermined condition, obtaining a noise gain for the subband based on an energy difference between an energy of the subband and an energy of decoded spectral coefficients in the subband;

generating a noise component using the noise gain and random noise;

applying the generated noise component to the subband to generate a noise filled decoded coefficient; and

generating the audio signal based on the noise filled decoded coefficient

wherein the encoded signal has one or a combination of audio characteristics and speech characteristics.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining is performed by comparing the bit allocation of the subband with a threshold.

3. A noise filling apparatus for decoding an audio signal comprising:

at least one processor configured to;

receive a bitstream of an encoded signal;

decode spectral coefficients of a plurality of subbands, from the bitstream;

determine whether bit allocation of a subband satisfies a predetermined condition;

when the bit allocation of the subband satisfies the predetermined condition, obtain a noise gain for the subband based on an energy difference between an energy of the subband and an energy of decoded spectral coefficients in the subband;

generate a noise component using the noise gain and random noise;

apply the generated noise component to the subband to generate a noise filled decoded coefficient; and

generate the audio signal based on the noise filled decoded coefficient, wherein the encoded signal has one or a combination of audio characteristics and speech characteristics.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the at least one processor is configured to compare the bit allocation of the subband with a threshold.