Methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding signals, methods for transmitting signals, and an information recording medium
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1. A method for encoding signals, comprising the steps of:
- forward orthogonally transforming an input signal using a pre-set windowing function to form an output spectral signal; and
encoding the output spectral signal,wherein the pre-set windowing function is represented by the equation ##EQU5## where w(n) is the windowing function, p is a value in the vicinity of 2, and M is the number of output spectral components.
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Abstract
A method for encoding the information has a forward inverse transform step of forward orthogonal transforming an input signal using a pre-set windowing function to form an output spectral signal, and an encoding step of encoding the resulting output spectral signal from the forward orthogonal transform. The preset windowing function having a smaller slope of a characteristic curve at both skirt ends is employed. This allows efficient encoding when employing a transform constituting a waveform signal by overlapping waveform elements with both neighboring waveform elements for generating a waveform signal during inverse orthogonal transform, such as MDCT.
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1. A method for encoding signals, comprising the steps of:
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forward orthogonally transforming an input signal using a pre-set windowing function to form an output spectral signal; and encoding the output spectral signal, wherein the pre-set windowing function is represented by the equation ##EQU5## where w(n) is the windowing function, p is a value in the vicinity of 2, and M is the number of output spectral components. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An apparatus for encoding signals, comprising:
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means for forward orthogonally transforming an input signal using a pre-set windowing function to form an output spectral signal; and means for encoding the output spectral signal, wherein the pre-set windowing function is represented by the equation ##EQU6## where w(n) is the windowing function, p is a value in the vicinity of 2, and M is the number of output spectral components. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for decoding signals, comprising the steps of:
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decoding an encoded signal encoded by a pre-set function for outputting a spectral signal; and inverse orthogonally transforming the spectral signal using a pre-set windowing function, wherein the pre-set windowing function is represented by the equation ##EQU7## where w(n) is the windowing function, p is a value in the vicinity of 2, and M is the number of output spectral components. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. An apparatus for decoding signals, comprising:
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means for decoding an encoded signal encoded by a pre-set function for outputting a spectral signal; and means for inverse orthogonally transforming the spectral signal using a pre-set windowing function, wherein the pre-set windowing function is represented by the equation ##EQU8## where w(n) is the windowing function, p is a value in the vicinity of 2, and M is the number of output spectral components. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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- 33. An information recording medium, wherein signals are produced by forward orthogonally transforming an input signal to form an output spectral signal using a pre-set windowing function represented by the equation ##EQU9## where w(n) is the windowing function, p is a value in the vicinity of 2, and M is the number of output spectral components, and by encoding the output spectral signal.
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41. A method for transmitting signals, comprising the steps of:
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forward orthogonally transforming an input signal to produce an output spectral signal using a pre-set windowing function having characteristics represented by the equation ##EQU10## where w(n) is the windowing function, p is a value in the vicinity of 2, and M is the number of output spectral components; and transmitting the output spectral signal. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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