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Enhancing perceptual performance of SBR and related HFR coding methods by adaptive noise-floor addition and noise substitution limiting

  • US 8,036,880 B2
  • Filed: 06/24/2009
  • Issued: 10/11/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/27/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus for enhancing a source decoder, the source decoder generating a decoded signal by decoding an encoded signal obtained by source encoding of an original signal, the original signal having a low band portion and high portion, the encoded signal including the low band portion of the original signal and not including the high band portion of the original signal, wherein the decoded signal is used for a high-frequency reconstruction to obtain a high-frequency reconstructed signal including a reconstructed high band portion of the original signal, comprising:

  • a high-frequency reconstructor for generating a reconstructed high band from the decoded signal; and

    a noise adder for adaptively adding noise to the reconstructed high band, wherein the noise adder is operative to add such a noise level that a high-frequency reconstructed signal having a noise content similar to the noise content of the original signal is obtained.

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