Method and an apparatus for decoding an audio signal

• US 7,783,048 B2
• Filed: 10/02/2009
• Issued: 08/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Oh, Hyen-O, Jung, Yang-Won
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin; Vivian
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kurr; Jason R
• Application Number:
  US12/572,998
• Publication Number:
  US 20100010818A1
• Time in Patent Office: 326 Days
• Field of Search: 700/94, 704/500, 704/504, 381/22, 381/23, 381/2, 381/119, 381 17- 19, 386/54, 386/96, 369/1, 369/4
• US Class Current: 381/22
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/008 Multichannel audio signal coding or decoding using interchannel correlation to reduce redundancy, e.g. joint-stereo, intensity-coding or matrixing
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 2420/01 Enhancing the perception of the sound image or of the spatial distribution using head related transfer functions [HRTF's] or equivalents thereof, e.g. interaural time difference [ITD] or interaural level difference [ILD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 2420/03 Application of parametric coding in stereophonic audio systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 3/008 in which the audio signals are in digital form, i.e. employing more than two discrete digital channels data reduction aspects thereof based on psychoacoustics G10L19/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 7/302 Electronic adaptation of stereophonic sound system to listener position or orientation H04S7/301 takes precedence

Abstract

A method for processing an audio signal, comprising: receiving a downmix signal, an object information, and a mix information; generating a downmix processing information using the object information and the mix information; processing the downmix signal using the downmix processing information; and, generating a multi-channel information using the object information and the mix information, wherein the number of channel of the downmix signal is equal to the number of channel of the processed downmix signal is disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for decoding an audio signal performed by an audio coding system, comprising:

receiving a downmix signal comprising at least one object signal;

receiving object information determined when the downmix signal is generated;

receiving mix information for controlling the at least one object signal;

generating downmix processing information using the object information and the mix information;

processing the downmix signal using the downmix processing information; and

,

generating multi-channel information using the object information and the mix information,

wherein;

a number of channels of the downmix signal is equal to a number of channels of the processed downmix signal;

the object information includes at least one of object level information and object correlation information;

the multi-channel information includes at least one of a channel level difference, an inter channel correlation and a channel prediction coefficient;

the downmix signal corresponds to a first mono signal or a first stereo signal and the processed downmix signal corresponds to a second mono signal or a second stereo signal;

the multi-channel information is used to generate a multi-channel signal using the downmix signal; and

a number of channels of the multi-channel signal is more than the number of channels of the downmix signal and the number of channels of the processed downmix signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the downmix processing information corresponds to information for controlling object panning if the number of channels of the downmix corresponds to at least two.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing of the downmix signal is performed by a 2×

2 module in case that the downmix signal corresponds to the first stereo signal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein one channel of the processed downmix signal corresponds to a combination of one channel of the downmix signal multiplied by a first gain and the other channel of the downmix signal multiplied by a second gain in case that the downmix signal corresponds to a stereo signal.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating the multi-channel signal using the processed downmix signal and the multi-channel information.

6. A method for decoding an audio signal performed by an audio coding system, comprising:

receiving a downmix signal comprising at least one object signal;

receiving object information determined when the downmix signal is generated;

receiving mix information for controlling the at least one object signal;

decomposing the downmix signal into a subband signal;

generating downmix processing information using the object information and the mix information;

processing the subband signal using the downmix processing information; and

,

generating an output signal using the processed subband signal,

wherein;

a number of channels of the downmix signal is equal to a number of channels of the output signal, and the output signal corresponds to a time domain signal;

the object information includes at least one of object level information and object correlation information;

the downmix signal corresponds to a first mono channel signal or a first stereo channel signal and the processed downmix signal corresponds to a second mono channel signal or a second stereo channel signal.

7. An apparatus for decoding an audio signal, comprising:

an information generating unit receiving object information determined when a downmix signal is generated, receiving mix information for controlling at least one object signal, generating downmix processing information using the object information and the mix information, and generating a multi-channel information using the object information and the mix information; and

,

a downmix processing unit receiving the downmix signal and the downmix processing information, and processing the downmix signal using the downmix processing information,

wherein;

a number of channels of the downmix signal is equal to a number of channels of the processed downmix signal;

the object information includes at least one of object level information and object correlation information;

the multi-channel information includes at least one of a channel level difference, an inter channel correlation and a channel prediction coefficient;

the downmix signal corresponds to a first mono signal or a first stereo signal and the processed downmix signal corresponds to a second mono signal or a second stereo signal;

the multi-channel information is used to generate a multi-channel signal using the downmix signal; and

a number of channels of the multi-channel signal is more than the number of channels of the downmix signal and the number of channels of the processed downmix signal.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the downmix processing information corresponds to information for controlling object panning if the number of channels of the downmix corresponds to at least two.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the processing of the downmix signal is performed by a 2×

2 module in case that the downmix signal corresponds to the first stereo signal.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein one channel of the processed downmix signal corresponds to combination of one channel of the downmix signal multiplied by a first gain and the other channel of the downmix signal multiplied by a second gain if the downmix signal corresponds to the first stereo signal.

11. The apparatus of claim 7, further comprising:

a multi-channel decoder generating the multi-channel signal using the processed downmix signal and the multi-channel information.