Scalable decoding apparatus and scalable encoding apparatus

• US 7,983,904 B2
• Filed: 11/02/2005
• Issued: 07/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 12, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshida, Koji, Ehara, Hiroyuki, Oshikiri, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): AZAD, ABUL K
• Application Number:
  US11/718,437
• Publication Number:
  US 20080126082A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,085 Days
• Field of Search: 704200-230
• US Class Current: 704/205
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/038 using band spreading techniques

Abstract

A scalable decoding apparatus capable of providing decoded audio signals of high quality having less degradation of a high frequency spectrum even when decoding audio signals by generating the high frequency spectrum by use of a low frequency spectrum. In the apparatus, an amplitude adjusting part uses different adjustment coefficients in accordance with the characteristic of first layer spectrum information to adjust the amplitude of a first layer decoded signal spectrum, and then outputs the amplitude-adjusted first layer decoded signal spectrum to a pseudo-spectrum generating part. Using amplitude-adjusted first layer decoded signal spectrum received from the amplitude adjusting part, the pseudo-spectrum generating part generates and outputs a pseudo-spectrum of high frequencies to a scaling part. The scaling part scales the spectrum received from the pseudo-spectrum generating part and then outputs it to an adder.

Claims

1. A scalable decoding apparatus comprising:

a first decoder that decodes low frequency band coded information and obtains a low frequency band decoded signal; and

a second decoder that obtains a high frequency band decoded signal from the low frequency band decoded signal and high frequency band coded information, wherein the second decoder comprises;

a transformer that transforms the low frequency band decoded signal and obtains a low frequency band spectrum;

an adjuster that carries out amplitude adjustment on the low frequency band spectrum using an adjustment coefficient, selected from a plurality of prepared coefficients according to an index indicating a depth of valleys of spectrum harmonics of the low band decoded signal; and

a generator that generates a high frequency band spectrum using the amplitude-adjusted low frequency band spectrum and the high frequency band coded information.

2. The scalable decoding apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the generator carries out mirroring on the amplitude-adjusted low frequency band spectrum and generates the high frequency band spectrum.

3. The scalable decoding apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the generator generates the high frequency band spectrum when at least part of the high frequency band coded information cannot be decoded.

4. The scalable decoding apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the generator carries out pitch filtering processing on the amplitude-adjusted low frequency band spectrum and generates the high frequency band spectrum.

5. The scalable decoding apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the high frequency band coded information is configured in a priority of scale factor, amplitude adjustment coefficient, lag and residual spectrum, and the generator generates the high frequency band spectrum using the scale factor, the amplitude adjustment coefficient and the lag when the residual spectrum is lost at the high frequency band coding information.

6. The scalable decoding apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the high frequency band coded information is configured in a priority of scale factor, amplitude adjustment coefficient, lag and residual spectrum, and the generator carries out mirroring on the amplitude-adjusted low frequency band spectrum and generates the high frequency band spectrum when the lag and the residual spectrum are lost at the high frequency coding information.

7. The scalable decoding apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the high frequency band coded information is configured in a priority of scale factor, amplitude adjustment coefficient, lag and residual spectrum, and the generator generates the high frequency band spectrum using past information corresponding to lost information when at least one of the scale factor, the amplitude adjustment coefficient, the lag and the residual spectrum is lost.