METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING PITCH GAIN, AND CODER AND DECODER

• US 20110218800A1
• Filed: 05/17/2011
• Published: 09/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Li, Lixiong, Zhang, Qing, Zhang, Dejun, Miao, Lei, Qi, Fengyan, Ma, Fuwei, Xu, Jianfeng
• Application Number:
  US13/109,679
• Publication Number:
  US 20110218800A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/207
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/08 Determination or coding of the excitation function; Determination or coding of the long-term prediction parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2019/0011 Long term prediction filters, i.e. pitch estimation

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for obtaining a pitch gain, and a coder and a decoder. The method includes: obtaining information about an input signal; and obtaining a pitch gain corresponding to the information about the input signal according to the correspondence between the signal information and the pitch gain. The embodiments of the present invention obtain the corresponding pitch gain according to the signal information by using the obtained correspondence between the signal information and the pitch gain, and the pitch gain is applicable to the coder and the decoder, thus making it unnecessary for the coder to transmit the pitch gain to the decoder and solving the problem of bit overhead. The embodiments of the present invention determine the pitch gain adaptively according to the signal information, avoid consumption of extra bits for quantizing the pitch gain, avoid impact on the coding performance, and improve the compression ratio.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining a pitch gain, the method comprising:

obtaining signal information about an input signal; and

obtaining the pitch gain corresponding to the signal information about the input signal according to the correspondence between the signal information and the pitch gain.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the method further comprises:

obtaining the correspondence between the signal information and the pitch gain beforehand.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the step of obtaining the pitch gain corresponding to the signal information about the input signal according to the correspondence between the signal information and the pitch gain comprise:

determining the interval which the signal information about the input signal belongs to according to the signal information about the input signal, wherein the interval is an interval set in the region of the signal information, at least one interval is set in the region of the signal formation; and

obtaining the pitch gain corresponding to the signal information about the input signal according to the interval.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the step of obtaining the pitch gain corresponding to the signal information about the input signal according to the correspondence between the signal information and the pitch gain comprises:

determining the interval which the signal information about the input signal belongs to according to the signal information about the input signal, wherein the interval is an interval set in the region of the signal information, at least one interval is set in the region of the signal formation; and

obtaining the pitch gain corresponding to interval which the signal information about the input signal belongs to as the pitch gain of the input signal.

5. The method according to claim 4 wherein the step of determining the interval which the signal information about the input signal belongs to according to the signal information about the input signal comprises:

comparing the signal information of each subframe with a threshold of interval; and

determining the interval which the signal information of each subframe belongs to according the result of the comparing.

6. The method according to claim 5 wherein the steps of comparing the signal information of each subframe with a threshold of interval;

and determining the interval which the signal information of each subframe belongs to according the result of the comparing comprises;

comparing the signal information of each subframe with a boundary value between two intervals; and

determining one of the two intervals as the interval which the signal information about the input signal belongs to according the result of the comparing.

7. The method according to claim 6 wherein the steps of comparing the signal information of each subframe with a threshold of interval and determining the interval which the signal information of each subframe belongs to according the result of the comparing comprises:

comparing the signal information of a subframe with the threshold of interval;

when the signal information of a subframe is less than the threshold of interval, treating the interval having a upper bound being the threshold as the interval which the signal information of the subframe belongs to;

otherwise, treating the interval having a lower bound being the threshold as the interval which the signal information of the subframe belongs to.

8. The method according to claim 3 wherein the step of obtaining the pitch gain corresponding to the signal information about the input signal according to the interval comprises:

treating the pitch gain corresponding to the interval which the signal information about the input signal belongs to as the pitch gain of the input signal.

9. The method according to claim 1 wherein the signal information comprises:

pitch period, energy, zero crossing rate, or type information.

10. The method according to claim 1 wherein the method is applicable to at least one of a coder and a decoder.

11. The method according to claim 1 wherein the signal information comprises pitch period, and the correspondence between the signal information and the pitch gain is the correspondence between the pitch period and the pitch gain.

12. The method according to claim 11 wherein the step of obtaining the pitch gain corresponding to the signal information about the input signal according to the correspondence between the pitch period and the pitch gain comprises:

determining the interval which the pitch period about the input signal belongs to according to the pitch period about the input signal, wherein the interval is an interval set in the region of the pitch period, at least one interval is set in the region of the pitch period; and

obtaining the pitch gain corresponding to the interval which the pitch period about the input signal belongs to.

13. The method according to claim 1 wherein the signal information comprises zero crossing rate, and the correspondence between the signal information and the pitch gain is the correspondence between the zero crossing rate and the pitch gain, a higher zero crossing rate corresponds to a lower pitch gain and a lower zero crossing rate corresponds to a higher pitch gain.

14. An apparatus for obtaining a pitch gain, the apparatus comprising:

a signal information obtaining module, adapted to obtain signal information about an input signal; and

a pitch gain obtaining module, adapted to obtain the pitch gain corresponding to the signal information about the input signal according to the correspondence between the signal information and the pitch gain.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14 further comprising:

a correspondence obtaining module, adapted to obtain the correspondence between the signal information and the pitch gain.

16. A coder, wherein the coder comprises the apparatus for obtaining a pitch gain according to claim 14.

17. A decoder, wherein the decoder comprises the apparatus for obtaining a pitch gain according to claim 14.

18. A method for obtaining a pitch gain, the method comprising:

obtaining signal information about an input signal;

determining the interval which the signal information about the input signal belongs to according to the signal information about the input signal, wherein the interval is an interval set in the region of the signal information, at least one interval is set in the region of the signal formation; and

obtaining the pitch gain corresponding to interval which the signal information about the input signal belongs to as the pitch gain of the input signal.