Method, medium, and apparatus encoding scalable wideband audio signal

• US 7,974,839 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2008
• Issued: 07/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Kang-eun, Oh, Eun-mi, Sung, Ho-sang
• Primary Examiner(s): ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH
• Application Number:
  US12/076,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20090094023A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,201 Days
• Field of Search: 704/219, 704/220, 704/500, 375/240.23
• US Class Current: 704/219
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/12 the excitation function being a code excitation, e.g. in code excited linear prediction [CELP] vocoders
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/24 Variable rate codecs, e.g. for generating different qualities using a scalable representation such as hierarchical encoding or layered encoding

Abstract

Provided is a method and apparatus for encoding a scalable wideband audio signal, the method including: filtering a voiced signal by performing linear prediction on the voiced signal and modulating the filtered signal; encoding the modulated signal in the time domain, and outputting a core layer encoding result of the voiced signal; subtracting a signal obtained by decoding the core layer encoding result from the modulated signal and outputting an error signal; and encoding the error signal and outputting an enhancement layer encoding result of the voiced signal.

Claims

1. A method of encoding a scalable wideband audio signal, the method comprising:

filtering a voiced signal by performing linear prediction on the voiced signal, and modulating the filtered signal;

encoding the modulated signal in a time domain, and outputting a core layer encoding result of the voiced signal;

subtracting a signal obtained by decoding the core layer encoding result from the modulated signal and outputting an error signal; and

encoding the error signal and outputting an enhancement layer encoding result of the voiced signal.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

multiplexing the core layer encoding result and the enhancement layer encoding result as a bitstream and outputting the bitstream as encoding results of the voiced signal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the outputting of the core layer encoding result of the voiced signal comprises:

encoding the modulated signal by a code excited linear prediction (CELP) mode so as to output the core layer encoding result.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

pre-emphasis filtering the voiced signal,

wherein the modulating of the filtered signal comprises;

filtering the pre-emphasis filtered signal by performing linear prediction on the pre-emphasis filtered signal and modulating the filtered signal.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

inversely filtering the modulated signal,

wherein the outputting of the error signal comprises;

subtracting the signal obtained by decoding the core layer encoding result from the inversely filtered signal and outputting the error signal.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

down-sampling the voiced signal at a predetermined sampling rate,

wherein the modulating of the filtered signal comprises;

filtering the down-sampled signal by performing linear prediction on the down-sampled signal and modulating the filtered signal.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

band pass filtering the voiced signal in a predetermined frequency band excluding a frequency band of the down-sampled signal;

up-sampling the modulated signal at an original sampling rate; and

adding the band pass filtered signal and the up-sampled signal,

wherein the outputting of the error signal comprises;

subtracting the signal obtained by decoding the core layer encoding result from the signal resulting from the addition and outputting the error signal.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the outputting of the core layer encoding result of the voiced signal comprises:

encoding the modulated signal by a scalable CELP mode and outputting a core layer index and an enhancement layer index as the core layer encoding result.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

down-sampling the voiced signal at a predetermined sampling rate; and

pre-emphasis filtering the down-sampled signal,

wherein the modulating of the filtered signal comprises;

filtering the pre-emphasis filtered signal by performing linear prediction on the pre-emphasis filtered signal and modulating the filtered signal.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

band pass filtering the voiced signal in a predetermined frequency band excluding the frequency band of the down-sampled signal;

inversely filtering the modulated signal;

up-sampling the inversely filtered signal at an original sampling rate; and

adding the band pass filtered signal and the up-sampled signal,

wherein the outputting of the error signal comprises;

subtracting the signal obtained by decoding the core layer encoding result from the signal resulting from the addition and outputting the error signal.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the outputting of the core layer codec index comprises:

encoding the modulated signal by a scalable CELP mode and outputting a core layer index and an enhancement layer index as the core layer encoding result.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

band pass filtering the voiced signal in a predetermined frequency band excluding the frequency band of the down-sampled signal;

inversely filtering the modulated signal;

up-sampling the inversely filtered signal at an original sampling rate; and

adding the band pass filtered signal and the up-sampled signal,

wherein the outputting of the error signal comprises;

subtracting a signal obtained by decoding the core layer index and the enhancement layer index from the signal resulting from the addition and outputting the error signal.

13. A computer readable recording medium storing a computer readable program for executing a method of encoding a scalable wideband audio signal, the method comprising:

filtering a voiced signal by performing linear prediction on the voiced signal and modulating the filtered signal;

encoding the modulated signal in a time domain, and outputting a core layer encoding result of the voiced signal;

subtracting a signal obtained by decoding the core layer encoding result from the modulated signal and outputting an error signal; and

encoding the error signal and outputting an enhancement layer encoding result of the voiced signal.

14. An apparatus for encoding a scalable wideband audio signal, the apparatus comprising:

a signal analysis unit to filter a voiced signal by performing linear prediction on the voiced signal;

a signal modulation unit to modulate the filtered signal;

a time domain encoding unit to encode the modulated signal in a time domain, and to output a core layer encoding result of the voiced signal;

a time domain decoding unit to decode the core layer encoding result in the time domain;

a subtractor to subtract the decoded signal from the modulated signal and to output an error signal; and

an error signal encoding unit to encode the error signal and to output an enhancement layer encoding result of the voiced signal.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the time domain encoding unit encodes the modulated signal by a CELP mode and outputs the core layer encoding result, and

wherein the time domain decoding unit decodes the core layer encoding result by the CELP mode.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

a multiplexer to multiplex the core layer encoding result and the enhancement layer encoding result as a bitstream.

17. An apparatus for encoding a scalable wideband audio signal, the apparatus comprising:

a filtering unit to pre-emphasis filter a voiced signal;

a signal analysis unit to filter the pre-emphasis filtered signal by performing linear prediction on the pre-emphasis filtered signal;

a signal modulation unit to modulate the filtered signal;

a time domain encoding unit to encode the modulated signal in a time domain, and to output a core layer encoding result of the voiced signal;

a time domain decoding unit to decode the core layer encoding result in the time domain;

an inverse-filtering unit to inversely filter the modulated signal;

a subtractor to subtract the decoded signal from the inversely filtered signal and to output the error signal; and

an error signal encoding unit to encode the error signal and to output an enhancement layer encoding result of the voiced signal.

18. An apparatus for encoding a scalable wideband audio signal, the apparatus comprising:

a down-sampling unit to down-sample a voiced signal at a predetermined sampling rate;

a signal analysis unit to filter the down-sampled signal by performing linear prediction on the down-sampled signal;

a signal modulation unit to modulate the filtered signal;

a time domain encoding unit to encode the modulated signal in a time domain, and to output a core layer encoding result of the voiced signal;

a time domain decoding unit to decode the core layer encoding result in the time domain;

a band pass filtering unit to band pass filter the voiced signal in a predetermined frequency band excluding a frequency band of the down-sampled signal;

an up-sampling unit to up-sample the modulated signal at an original sampling rate;

an adder to add the band pass filtered signal and the up-sampled signal;

a subtractor to subtract the decoded signal from the signal resulting from the addition and to output an error signal; and

an error signal encoding unit to encode the error signal and to output an enhancement layer encoding result of the voiced signal.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the time domain encoding unit encodes the modulated signal by a CELP mode and outputs the core layer encoding result, and

wherein the time domain decoding unit decodes the core layer encoding result by the CELP mode.

20. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the time domain encoding unit encodes the modulated signal by a scalable CELP mode and outputs a core layer index and an enhancement layer index as the core layer encoding result,

wherein the time domain decoding unit decodes the core layer index and the enhancement layer index.