Method and device for decoding signal

• US 10,546,589 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2019
• Issued: 01/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2012
• 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: Liu, Zexin, Qi, Fengyan, Miao, Lei
• Primary Examiner(s): Yen, Eric
• Application Number:
  US16/256,421
• Publication Number:
  US 20190156839A1
• Time in Patent Office: 369 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/002 Dynamic bit allocation for perceptual audio coders G10L19/032
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/005 Correction of errors induced by the transmission channel, if related to the coding algorithm
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0204 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

Abstract

A method and device for decoding a signal, where the method for decoding the signal includes obtaining spectral coefficients of sub-bands from a received bitstream by decoding, classifying sub-bands in which the spectral coefficients are located into a sub-band with saturated bit allocation and a sub-band with unsaturated bit allocation, performing noise filling on a spectral coefficient that has not been obtained by decoding and is in the sub-band with unsaturated bit allocation to restore the spectral coefficient that has not been obtained by decoding, and obtaining a frequency domain signal according to the spectral coefficients obtained by decoding and the restored spectral coefficient. Therefore, a sub-band with unsaturated bit allocation in a frequency domain signal may be obtained by classification, thereby improving signal decoding quality.

Claims

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

obtaining, by a decoder, an average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient of a sub-band of a current frame of the audio signal;

reconstructing, by the decoder, at least some of a plurality of spectral coefficients of the sub-band to generate reconstructed spectral coefficients when the average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient is less than a classification threshold, wherein the classification threshold is greater than zero;

obtaining, by the decoder, a frequency domain signal according to the reconstructed spectral coefficients; and

generating, by the decoder, a time domain signal based on the frequency domain signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of spectral coefficients comprises a first spectral coefficient obtained by the decoder from a bitstream corresponding to the current frame and a second spectral coefficient not obtained by the decoder from the bitstream, and wherein reconstructing at least some of the plurality of spectral coefficients to generate the reconstructed spectral coefficients comprises reconstructing the second spectral coefficient not obtained by the decoder from the bitstream, but not the first spectral coefficient obtained by the decoder from the bitstream, to generate the reconstructed spectral coefficients.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein none of the plurality of spectral coefficients is obtained by the decoder from a bitstream corresponding to the current frame, and wherein reconstructing at least some of the plurality of spectral coefficients to generate the reconstructed spectral coefficients comprises reconstructing all of the plurality of spectral coefficients to generate the reconstructed spectral coefficients.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient is a ratio of a quantity of bits allocated for the sub-band to a bandwidth of the sub-band.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the bandwidth is represented by a quantity of spectral coefficients in the sub-band.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the reconstructed spectral coefficients are filled with zeroes when a bitstream corresponding to the current frame is decoded by the decoder.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the current frame further comprises a second sub-band comprising a first spectral coefficient obtained by the decoder from a bitstream corresponding to the current frame and a second spectral coefficient not obtained by the decoder from the bitstream, and wherein the method further comprises:

obtaining, by the decoder, a second average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient for the second sub-band; and

avoiding reconstruction of any spectral coefficient for the second sub-band when the second average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient for the second sub-band is greater than or equal to the classification threshold.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the current frame further comprises another sub-band consisting of a plurality of first spectral coefficients obtained by the decoder from a bitstream corresponding to the current frame, and wherein the method further comprises avoiding reconstruction of any spectral coefficient for the other sub-band.

9. A decoder for decoding an audio signal, comprising:

a non-transitory memory for storing computer-executable instructions; and

a processor coupled to the non-transitory memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to;

obtain an average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient of a sub-band of a current frame of the audio signal;

reconstruct at least some of a plurality of spectral coefficients of the sub-band to generate reconstructed spectral coefficients when the average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient is less than a classification threshold, wherein the classification threshold is greater than zero; and

obtain a frequency domain signal according to the reconstructed spectral coefficients; and

generate a time domain signal based on the frequency domain signal.

10. The decoder of claim 9, wherein the plurality of spectral coefficients comprises a first spectral coefficient obtained from a bitstream corresponding to the current frame and a second spectral coefficient not obtained from the bitstream, and wherein the processor is further configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to reconstruct the second spectral coefficient not obtained from the bitstream, but not the first spectral coefficient obtained from the bitstream, to generate the reconstructed spectral coefficients.

11. The decoder of claim 9, wherein none of the plurality of spectral coefficients is obtained from a bitstream corresponding to the current frame, and wherein the processor is further configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to reconstruct all of the plurality of spectral coefficients to generate the reconstructed spectral coefficients.

12. The decoder of claim 9, wherein the average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient is a ratio of a quantity of bits allocated for the sub-band to a bandwidth of the sub-band.

13. The decoder of claim 12, wherein the bandwidth is represented by a quantity of spectral coefficients in the sub-band.

14. The decoder of claim 9, wherein the reconstructed spectral coefficients are filled with zeroes when a bitstream corresponding to the current frame is decoded.

15. The decoder of claim 9, wherein the current frame further comprises a second sub-band comprising a first spectral coefficient obtained from a bitstream corresponding to the current frame and a second spectral coefficient not obtained from the bitstream, and wherein the processor is further configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to:

obtain a second average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient for the second sub-band; and

avoid reconstruction of any spectral coefficient for the second sub-band when the second average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient for the second sub-band is greater than or equal to the classification threshold.

16. The decoder of claim 9, wherein the current frame further comprises another sub-band consisting of a plurality of first spectral coefficients obtained from a bitstream corresponding to the current frame, and wherein the processor is further configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to avoid reconstruction of any spectral coefficients for the other sub-band.

17. A decoder for decoding an audio signal, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive the audio signal;

a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to;

obtain an average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient of a sub-band of a current frame of the audio signal;

reconstruct at least some of a plurality of spectral coefficients of the sub-band to generate reconstructed spectral coefficients when the average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient is less than a classification threshold, wherein the classification threshold is greater than zero;

obtain a frequency domain signal according to the reconstructed spectral coefficients; and

generate a time domain signal based on the frequency domain signal.

18. The decoder of claim 17, wherein the plurality of spectral coefficients comprises a first spectral coefficient obtained from a bitstream corresponding to the current frame and a second spectral coefficient not obtained from the bitstream, and wherein the processor is further configured to reconstruct the second spectral coefficient not obtained from the bitstream, but not the first spectral coefficient obtained from the bitstream, to generate the reconstructed spectral coefficients.

19. The decoder of claim 17, wherein none of the plurality of spectral coefficients is obtained from a bitstream corresponding to the current frame, and wherein the processor is further configured to reconstruct all of the plurality of spectral coefficients to generate the reconstructed spectral coefficients.

20. The decoder of claim 17, wherein the average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient is a ratio of a quantity of bits allocated for the sub-band to a bandwidth of the sub-band.

21. The decoder of claim 20, wherein the bandwidth of the sub band is represented by a quantity of spectral coefficients in the sub-band.

22. The decoder of claim 17, wherein the reconstructed spectral coefficients are filled with zeroes when a bitstream corresponding to the current frame is decoded.

23. The decoder of claim 17, wherein the current frame further comprises a second sub-band comprising a first spectral coefficient obtained from a bitstream corresponding to the current frame and a second spectral coefficient not obtained from the bitstream, and wherein the processor is further configured to:

obtain a second average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient for the second sub-band; and

avoid reconstruction of any spectral coefficient for the second sub-band when the second average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient for the second sub-band is greater than or equal to the classification threshold.

24. The decoder of claim 17, wherein the current frame further comprises another sub-band consisting of a plurality of third spectral coefficients obtained from a bitstream corresponding to the current frame, and wherein the processor is further configured to avoid reconstruction of any spectral coefficients for the other sub-band.