METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL

• US 20100121470A1
• 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:
  US12/527,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20100121470A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• 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: G10L 19/167 Audio streaming, i.e. formatting and decoding of an encoded audio signal representation into a data stream for transmission or storage purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/20 using sound class specific coding, hybrid encoders or object based coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 2400/11 Positioning of individual sound objects, e.g. moving airplane, within a sound field H04S2420/13 takes precedence

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:

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.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the ratio information is obtained from an audio signal bitstream.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising obtaining transmission flag information indicating whether the ratio information and the gain range information are transmitted,

wherein the ratio information and the gain range information are obtained from the audio signal bitstream based on the transmission flag information.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising obtaining relational flag information indicating whether an object signal corresponds to a relational signal,

wherein the obtaining the transmission flag information is executed based on the relational flag information.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the relational flag information indicates whether an object signal corresponds to a relational signal per an object.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising receiving frequency resolution information,

wherein the modifying the parameter information is executed based on the frequency resolution information.

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

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

9. The method of claim 1, comprising:

displaying the gain range information; and

receiving user control information for per-object gain adjustment,

wherein the control parameter is generated based on the user control information.

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

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving downmix information including the main signal and the sub-signal; and

generating a multi-channel signal using the downmix information and the multi-channel information.

12. 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

an information transceiving part obtaining ratio information between a main signal and a sub-signal and gain range information of an object; and

an information modifying part 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.

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

obtaining object information including first level information;

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 one of the first level information and second level information,

wherein the second level information is generated using the ratio information and the gain range information.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising generating multi-channel information using the modified parameter information.

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

obtaining object information including first level information;

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 one of the first level information and second level information,

wherein the second level information is generated using the ratio information and the gain range information.

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

an information transceiving part obtaining object information including first level information, the information transceiving part obtaining ratio information between a main signal and a sub-signal and gain range information of an object; and

an information modifying part modifying parameter information including at least one of an object parameter and a control parameter based on one of the first level information and second level information,

wherein the second level information is generated using the ratio information and the gain range information.