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Techniques for measurement of perceptual audio quality

  • US 7,548,855 B2
  • Filed: 06/26/2006
  • Issued: 06/16/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A storage medium having stored therein computer-executable instructions for causing a computer programmed thereby to perform a method of encoding audio, the method comprising:

  • encoding audio organized as plural blocks of audio data, including measuring quality of the plural blocks of audio data, wherein each of the plural blocks has one of plural available block sizes, and wherein the measuring comprises, for each of the plural blocks of audio data;

    normalizing the block, including one or more of;

    normalizing amplitude scale of plural values in the block to compensate for changes in the amplitude scale relating to block size of the block; and

    normalizing the block size of the block to compensate for block size variation among the plural blocks of audio data; and

    computing a quality measure for the normalized block;

    and outputting the encoded audio in a bit stream.

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