APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100114568A1
• Filed: 10/26/2009
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoon, Sung Yong, Lim, Jae Hyun, Kim, Dong Soo, Lee, Hyun Kook
• Application Number:
  US12/605,905
• Publication Number:
  US 20100114568A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/223
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0212 using orthogonal transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/18 Vocoders using multiple modes
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2019/0008 Algebraic codebooks

Abstract

An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which extracting, by an audio processing apparatus, scheme type information indicating either time excitation scheme or frequency excitation scheme for each of a plurality of subframes included in current frame; when the time excitation scheme is applied to at least one subframe among the plurality of subframes according to the scheme type information, extracting mode information representing bit allocation of codebook index for the current frame; and, when the mode information is extracted, decoding the at least one subframe using the mode information according to the time excitation scheme.

Claims

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

extracting, by an audio processing apparatus, scheme type information indicating either time excitation scheme or frequency excitation scheme for each of a plurality of subframes included in current frame;

when the time excitation scheme is applied to at least one subframe among the plurality of subframes according to the scheme type information, extracting mode information representing bit allocation of codebook index for the current frame; and

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when the mode information is extracted, decoding the at least one subframe using the mode information according to the time excitation scheme.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the frequency excitation scheme is applied to all the plurality subframes according to the scheme type information, decoding the all the plurality subframes according to the frequency excitation scheme.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein decoding the at least one subframe comprises:

extracting the codebook index using the mode information; and

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decoding the at least one subframe using the codebook index according to the time excitation scheme.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the time excitation scheme is applied to at least one subframe among the plurality of subframes according to the scheme type information, extracting flag information indicating whether the mode information corresponds to either difference value or absolute value; and

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when the flag information indicates that the mode information corresponds to the difference value, obtaining a mode value of the current frame using the mode information of the current frame and a mode value of a previous frame.

5. An apparatus for processing an audio signal, comprising:

a scheme type information obtaining part extracting scheme type information indicating either time excitation scheme or frequency excitation scheme for each of a plurality of subframes included in current frame;

a mode information obtaining part, when the time excitation scheme is applied to at least one subframe among the plurality of subframes according to the scheme type information, extracting mode information representing bit allocation of codebook index for the current frame; and

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a time excitation scheme unit, when the mode information is extracted, decoding the at least one subframe using the mode information according to the time excitation scheme.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, further comprising:

a frequency excitation scheme unit, when the frequency excitation scheme is applied to all the plurality subframes according to the scheme type information, decoding the all the plurality subframes according to the frequency excitation scheme.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, further comprising:

a codebook information obtaining part extracting the codebook index using the mode information; and

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wherein the time excitation scheme unit decodes the at least one subframe using the codebook index according to the time excitation scheme.

8. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the mode information obtaining part, when the time excitation scheme is applied to at least one subframe among the plurality of subframes according to the scheme type information, extracts flag information indicating whether the mode information corresponds to either difference value or absolute value,

when the flag information indicates that the mode information corresponds to difference value, obtains a mode value of the current frame using the mode information of the current frame and a mode value of a previous frame.

9. A method for processing an audio signal, comprising:

obtaining scheme type information indicating either time excitation scheme or frequency excitation scheme for each of a plurality of subframes included in current frame;

obtaining mode information representing bit allocation of codebook index for the current frame; and

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when the time excitation scheme is applied to at least one subframe among the plurality of subframes according to the scheme type information, encoding the mode information by inserting the mode information into a bitstream.

10. An apparatus for processing an audio signal, comprising:

a signal classifier obtaining scheme type information indicating either time excitation scheme or frequency excitation scheme for each of a plurality of subframes included in current frame;

a time excitation scheme unit obtaining mode information representing bit allocation of codebook index for the current frame; and

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a mode information encoding unit, when the time excitation scheme is applied to at least one subframe among the plurality of subframes according to the scheme type information, encoding the mode information by inserting the mode information into a bitstream.

11. A computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations, comprising:

extracting, by an audio processing apparatus, scheme type information indicating either time excitation scheme or frequency excitation scheme for each of a plurality of subframes included in current frame;

when the time excitation scheme is applied to at least one subframe among the plurality of subframes according to the scheme type information, extracting mode information representing bit allocation of codebook index for the current frame;

when the mode information is extracted, decoding the at least one subframe using the mode information according to the time excitation scheme.