Transmitter and receiver employing variable rate encoding method for use in network communication system
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1. A transmitter for use in a network communication system, comprising:
- band-signal dividing means for dividing a signal sequence into signals of a plurality of frequency subbands;
coding means for coding the signal of each of the subbands by an entropy coding method; and
information-unit composing means for composing the coded signal of each of the subbands into an information unit of a fixed length or a variable length,wherein in a case where the signal sequence is transmitted via the network communication system, the signal sequence is coded by the entropy coding method in units of frames with respect to each signal of the plurality of frequency subbands, and is transmitted to a network of the network communication system as the information unit of the fixed length or the variable length.
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Abstract
As an encoded signal for transmission to a packet communication network or an ATM communication network, signals of a plurality of frequency subbands are independently encoded in units of frames, and an encoded bit rate is controlled in that frame unit. The deterioration of quality due to cell discarding is light, and an improvement in encoding efficiency can be expected through the joint use of entropy coding processing.
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1. A transmitter for use in a network communication system, comprising:
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band-signal dividing means for dividing a signal sequence into signals of a plurality of frequency subbands; coding means for coding the signal of each of the subbands by an entropy coding method; and information-unit composing means for composing the coded signal of each of the subbands into an information unit of a fixed length or a variable length, wherein in a case where the signal sequence is transmitted via the network communication system, the signal sequence is coded by the entropy coding method in units of frames with respect to each signal of the plurality of frequency subbands, and is transmitted to a network of the network communication system as the information unit of the fixed length or the variable length. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A receiver for use in a network communication system, comprising:
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information-unit decomposing means for decomposing an information unit having a fixed length or a variable length and composed of a signal sequence entropy-coded for a plurality of subbands, into encoded signals of the plurality of subbands; decoding means for decoding the decomposed entropy-coded signal of each of the subbands; and combining means for combining the decoded signals of the subbands into a signal of a full band, wherein in a case where the information unit having the fixed length or the variable length and entropy-coded for each of the subbands is received from the network of the network communication system, the information unit is decoded in units of frames for each of the subbands, and the decoded signal sequence of the full band is obtained by combining the decoded signals. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6)
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7. A transmitter for use in a network communication system, comprising:
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band-signal dividing means for fetching a signal sequence in units of a predetermined number of samples and dividing into signals of a plurality of frequency subbands; power calculating means for calculating a power of a signal of each of the plurality of subbands; number-of-quantized bits calculating means for calculating the number of bits at the time of quantizing the signal of each of the subbands of the predetermined number of samples, on the basis of the power determined by the power calculating means; bit-rate control means for variably controlling the distribution of the numbers of quantized bits determined by the number-of-quantized bits calculating means; quantizing means for quantizing the signal of each of the subbands of the predetermined number of samples on the basis of the number of quantized bits distributed through control by the bit-rate control means; coding means for coding the quantized signal by an entropy coding method; and information-unit composing means for composing a time stamp, the encoded signal of each subband, power of the signal, the number of samples of the input signal of each subband being sampled for determining the number of the quantized bits, and the number of the quantized bits into an information unit of a fixed length or a variable length, wherein in a case where the signal sequence is transmitted via the network communication system, the signal sequence is coded by the entropy coding method in units of frames at different bit rates for the respective signals of the plurality of frequency subbands, and is transmitted to a network of the network communication system as the information unit of the fixed length or the variable length. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A receiver for use in a network communication system, comprising:
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information-element decomposing means for decomposing an information unit having a fixed length or a variable length and composed of a signal sequence representing a time stamp, an entropy-coded signal of each of a plurality of frequency subbands, a power of the signal, number of samples of an input signal of each of subbands sampled as an object of encoding, and the number of quantized bits calculated on the basis of the power at the time of quantizing the signal of each of the subbands of the number of samples; decoding means for decoding the entropy-coded signal of each of the subbands; combining means for combining the decoded signals of the subbands into a signal of a full band; discarded-information detecting means for detecting an information element discarded on the basis of a result of decomposition by the information-element decomposing means; and reproducing means for reproducing a section of the discarded information element, wherein in a case where the information unit having the fixed length or the variable length and obtained by encoding the signals of the plurality of subbands at different bit rates for units of frames is received from a network of the network communication system, the information unit is decoded in the units of frames for each of the subbands so as to compose a decoded signal of the full band, and a decoded signal sequence is obtained while an interpolation is being conducted in units of the discarded information recognized in the meantime. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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