Band Extension Reproducing Apparatus

• US 20090107322A1
• Filed: 10/27/2008
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: AKIYAMA, Hitoshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,897,864 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/616
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0091 Means for obtaining special acoustic effects combined with modulation G10H1/043
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/08 by combining tones G10H1/14, G10H1/16 take precedence; chord G10H1/38
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2250/471 General musical sound synthesis principles, i.e. sound category-independent synthesis methods
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/038 using band spreading techniques

Abstract

Signals in two different bands (band components) are extracted from an input signal by an HPF and a BPF, and frequency-shift processing is performed by an MPY. Further, in order to adjust levels of an interface between the band components of shifted frequency to a high-frequency band side and the input signal, band components with which the input signal is adjacent to the high-frequency band extension components are extracted by an HPF. Then, a gain is controlled on the basis of the output values from the HPF and the HPF so as to reduce a difference between the components of shifted frequencies and the level of the input signal by the level correction coefficient calculating unit and the MPY. Then, the shifted components are added to the high-frequency band of the input signal by an ADDER.

Claims

1. A band extension reproducing apparatus comprising:

a high-frequency band component extraction unit which extracts, from an input signal, a high-frequency band component at a predetermined frequency or more;

a first shifter which acquires information on a harmonic overtone series interval from the input signal, and shifts frequency of the extracted high-frequency band component on the basis of the acquired information to generate first high-frequency band extension component; and

an adder which adds the generated first high-frequency band extension component to the input signal.

2. The band extension reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a level corrector which corrects levels of the generated first high-frequency band extension component so as to be adapted to a level fluctuation in the input signal to even up a level difference; and

a delay unit which delays the input signal to adjust a timing of supplying the input signal and an output signal from the level corrector to the adder,

wherein the adder adds the input signal delayed by the delay unit and the first high-frequency band extension component output from the level corrector.

3. The band extension reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a single-stage or multistage extension processing unit,

wherein the multistage extension processing unit includes:

a second shifter which;

acquires information on a harmonic overtone series interval from the input signal,

when the extension processing unit is not connected to the previous stage, shifts frequency of the first high-frequency band extension component corrected by the level corrector to a band in proximity to a maximum frequency among the first high-frequency extension component on the basis of the information,

when the extension processing unit is connected to the previous stage, shifts a frequency of a second high-frequency band extension component output from the extension processing unit to a band in proximity to a maximum frequency among the second high-frequency extension component on the basis of the information, and

outputs a third high-order extension component frequency-shifted from the first or second high-frequency band extension component;

an adjacent component extraction unit which extracts a band component, which is adjacent to the third high-order extension component, from the first or second high-frequency band extension component;

a coefficient calculator which calculates a coefficient to correct levels of the third high-order extension component on the basis of the third high-order extension component output from the second shifter and the band component output from the adjacent component extraction unit; and

a second level corrector which corrects levels of the third high-order extension component output from the second shifter so as to be adapted to a level fluctuation in the first or second extension component on the basis of the coefficient calculated by the coefficient calculator to reduce a level difference,

wherein the adder adds the input signal, the first high-frequency band extension component output from the level corrector and the third extension component, and the third high-order extension component output from the second level corrector, and

wherein the delay unit delays the input signal and the high-order extension component from the respective extension processing unit except for the last-stage one, to adjust the timing to supply the input signal and the high-order extension component to the adder.

4. The band extension reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an adjacent component extraction unit which extracts, from the input signal, a band component which is adjacent to the first high-frequency band extension component; and

a coefficient calculator which calculates a coefficient to correct levels of the first high-frequency band extension component on the basis of the first high-frequency band extension component output from the shifter and the band component output from the adjacent component extraction unit,

wherein the level corrector corrects levels of the first high-frequency band extension component output from the shifter so as to be adapted to a level fluctuation in the input signal to even up a level difference on the basis of the coefficient calculated by the coefficient calculator.

5. The band extension reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the shifter includes:

a carrier extraction unit which extracts a band component within a constant range centering on a frequency obtained by subtracting the predetermined frequency from a frequency in the first high-frequency band extension component; and

an extension component generator which multiplies the frequency band component extracted by the high-frequency band component extraction unit by the carrier component extracted by the carrier extraction unit to output the first high-frequency band extension component in which frequency of the high-frequency band component is shifted to a high-frequency band.

6. The band extension reproducing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the carrier extraction unit extracts a minimum range including at least one of integer-order harmonic components of a fundamental pitch of a musical instrument by necessity whatever frequency is selected, as the band component within a constant range.

7. The band extension reproducing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the coefficient calculator includes:

a first envelope detector which derives an envelope on the basis of an instantaneous value of a band component extracted by the adjacent component extraction unit, which is adjacent to the first high-frequency band extension component, and outputs it as a first level value,

a second envelope detector which derives an envelope on the basis of an instantaneous value of the first high-frequency band extension component output from the shifter, and outputs it as a second level value, and

an operation unit which detects a level difference between the first and second output values to calculate a coefficient for correcting levels of the high-frequency band extension component so as to even up the difference.

8. The band extension reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a line spectrum enhancing unit which eliminates uncorrelated signals from the input signal to output a highly-correlated component at a subsequent stage of the shifter.