METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL

• US 20100119073A1
• Filed: 02/13/2008
• Published: 05/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jung, Yang Won, Oh, Hyen O
• Application Number:
  US12/527,153
• Publication Number:
  US 20100119073A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/28
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/008 Multichannel audio signal coding or decoding using interchannel correlation to reduce redundancy, e.g. joint-stereo, intensity-coding or matrixing
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 2400/01 Multi-channel, i.e. more than two input channels, sound reproduction with two speakers wherein the multi-channel information is substantially preserved
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 2400/11 Positioning of individual sound objects, e.g. moving airplane, within a sound field H04S2420/13 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 2420/03 Application of parametric coding in stereophonic audio systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 3/008 in which the audio signals are in digital form, i.e. employing more than two discrete digital channels data reduction aspects thereof based on psychoacoustics G10L19/02

Abstract

Disclosed is a method of processing an audio signal, including obtaining ratio information between a main signal and a sub-signal and gain range information of an object and modifying parameter information including at least one of an object parameter and a control parameter based on the ratio information and the gain range information. Disclosed is a method of processing an audio signal, including generating ratio information using object information, generating gain range information of an object using the ratio information, and modifying parameter information including at least one of an object parameter and a control parameter based on the gain range information.

Claims

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

generating ratio information using object information;

generating gain range information of an object using the ratio information; and

modifying parameter information including at least one of an object parameter and a control parameter based on the gain range information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the ratio information is executed using object level information of object signals.

3. The method of claim 2, the generating the ratio information is executed using a ratio between object level information of one object signal and object level information of another object signal.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the object level information of the another object signal is a sum of object level informations of at least two another object signals.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the gain range information is executed using at least one of default guide information, user guide information and encoder guide information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the gain range information includes at least one of an absolute gain value for a one object and a relative gain difference value between objects.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the gain range information varies per time per subband.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving downmix information including a main signal and a sub-signal,

wherein the ratio information includes a relative ratio between the main signal and the sub-signal.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating multi-channel information using the modified parameter information.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving mix information including the control parameter,

wherein the mix information is generated based on at least one of object position information, object gain information and playback configuration information.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio signal is received via a broadcast signal.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio signal is received via a digital medium.

13. A computer-readable recording medium comprising a program recorded thereon, the program executing:

generating ratio information using object information;

generating gain range information of an object using the ratio information; and

modifying parameter information including at least one of an object parameter and a control parameter based on the gain range information.

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

an information generating part generating ratio information using object information, the information generating part generating gain range information of an object using the ratio information; and

an information modifying part modifying parameter information including at least one of an object parameter and a control parameter based on the gain range information.