Acoustic signal transform coding method and decoding method having a high efficiency envelope flattening method therein
First Claim
1. An acoustic signal transform coding method which transforms an input acoustic signal to frequency-domain coefficients and encodes them to produce coded output, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) obtaining residual coefficients having a flattened envelope of the frequency characteristics of said input acoustic signal on a frame-by-frame basis;
(b) predicting the envelope of said residual coefficients of the current frame on the basis of said residual coefficients of the current or previous frame to produce a predicted residual-coefficients envelope;
(c) normalizing said residual coefficients of the current frame by said predicted residual-coefficients envelope to produce fine structure coefficients; and
(d) quantizing said fine structure coefficients and outputting index information representative of said quantized fine structure coefficients as part of said coded output.
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Abstract
An input acoustic signal is subjected to modified discrete cosine transform processing to obtain its spectrum characteristics. Linear prediction coefficients are derived from the input acoustic signal in a linear prediction coding analysis part, and the prediction coefficients are subjected to Fourier transform in a spectrum envelope calculation part to obtain the envelope of the spectrum characteristics of the input acoustic signal. In a normalization part the spectrum characteristics are normalized by the envelope thereof to obtain residual coefficients. Another normalization part normalizes the residual coefficients by a residual-coefficients envelope predicted in a residual-coefficients envelope calculation part, thereby obtaining fine structure coefficients, which are vector-quantized in a quantization part. A de-normalization part de-normalizes the quantized fine structure coefficients. The residual-coefficients envelope calculation part uses the reproduced residual coefficients to predict the envelope of residual coefficients of the subsequent frame.
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45 Claims
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1. An acoustic signal transform coding method which transforms an input acoustic signal to frequency-domain coefficients and encodes them to produce coded output, said method comprising the steps of:
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(a) obtaining residual coefficients having a flattened envelope of the frequency characteristics of said input acoustic signal on a frame-by-frame basis; (b) predicting the envelope of said residual coefficients of the current frame on the basis of said residual coefficients of the current or previous frame to produce a predicted residual-coefficients envelope; (c) normalizing said residual coefficients of the current frame by said predicted residual-coefficients envelope to produce fine structure coefficients; and (d) quantizing said fine structure coefficients and outputting index information representative of said quantized fine structure coefficients as part of said coded output. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. An acoustic signal decoding method for decoding an acoustic signal coded after being transformed to frequency-domain coefficients of a predetermined plurality of samples for each frame, said method comprising:
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(a) a step wherein fine structure coefficients decoded from input first quantization index information are de-normalized by the envelope of residual coefficients predicted from information about a past frame, whereby reproduced residual coefficients in the current frame are obtained; and (b) a step wherein an acoustic signal added with the envelope of the frequency characteristics of said coded acoustic signal is regenerated from said reproduced residual coefficients obtained in said step (a). - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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