Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method

• US 8,204,745 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2011
• Issued: 06/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshida, Koji, Oshikiri, Masahiro, Ehara, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Azad, Abdul
• Application Number:
  US13/158,944
• Publication Number:
  US 20110264457A1
• Time in Patent Office: 372 Days
• Field of Search: 704219-230
• US Class Current: 704/230
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/038 using band spreading techniques

Abstract

An encoding apparatus and method for generating low-frequency-band encoding information and high-frequency-band encoding information from an original signal. The encoding apparatus includes a first spectrum calculator that calculates a first spectrum of a low frequency band from a decoded signal of the low-frequency-band encoding information, a second spectrum calculator that calculates a second spectrum from the original signal, an estimator that divides a high frequency band of the second spectrum into a plurality of bands and estimates the second spectrum included in each band, using the first spectrum, and a first error component encoder that encodes a first error component between the high frequency band of the second spectrum and an estimated spectrum. A corresponding decoding apparatus and method provides decoding.

Claims

1. An encoding apparatus comprising:

a first spectrum calculator that calculates a first spectrum of a low frequency band from a decoded signal of low-frequency-band encoding information;

a second spectrum calculator that calculates a second spectrum from an original signal;

an estimator that divides a high frequency band of the second spectrum into a plurality of bands and estimates the second spectrum included in each band, using the first spectrum; and

a first error component encoder that encodes a first error component between the high frequency band of the second spectrum and an estimated spectrum.

2. The encoding apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the estimator encodes a parameter indicating a position of the first spectrum that is most similar to the second spectrum included in each band; and

the parameter indicating the position is determined by changing the parameter gradually within a predetermined range.

3. The encoding apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first spectrum calculator generates the first spectrum by adjusting a dynamic range of a spectrum of the decoded signal.

4. The encoding apparatus of claim 2, further comprising a second error component encoder that encodes a second error component between the first spectrum and a low frequency band of the second spectrum,

wherein the first error component encoder encodes the parameter after having improved quality of the first spectrum using the second error component encoded in the second error component encoder.

5. The encoding apparatus of claim 2, wherein the first error component encoder encodes the parameter and the first error component after having improved quality of the first spectrum using the second error component encoded in the second error component encoder.

6. The encoding apparatus of claim 4, wherein the second error component encoder improves both quality of a low frequency band of the first spectrum and quality of a high frequency band of a decoded spectrum derived from the parameter encoded in the estimator and the first error component.

7. The encoding apparatus of claim 2, further comprising a configurator that configures a bit stream arranged in order of the parameter and the first error component.

8. A decoding apparatus, comprising:

an encoding information acquirer that acquires low-frequency-band encoding information and high-frequency-band encoding information;

a spectrum calculator that calculates a first spectrum of a low frequency band from a decoded signal of the low-frequency-band encoding information; and

a parameter acquirer that acquires a first parameter and a second parameter, the first parameter being encoded as high-frequency-band encoding information and indicating an estimated spectrum that is most similar to a second spectrum, the second spectrum being included in each of a plurality of bands into which a high frequency band of the second spectrum corresponding to an original signal is divided and being estimated using the first spectrum, the second parameter being encoded as high-frequency-band encoding information and indicating an error component between the estimated spectrum and the high frequency band of the second spectrum; and

a decoder that decodes the second spectrum using the acquired first parameter and second parameter.

9. The decoding apparatus of claim 8, wherein the spectrum calculator generates the first spectrum by adjusting a dynamic range of a spectrum of the decoded signal.

10. An encoding method comprising:

calculating a first spectrum of a low frequency band from a decoded signal of low-frequency-band encoding information;

calculating a second spectrum from an original signal;

dividing a high frequency band of the second spectrum into a plurality of bands and estimating the second spectrum included in each band, using the first spectrum; and

encoding a first error component between the high frequency band of the second spectrum and an estimated spectrum.

11. A decoding method, comprising:

acquiring low-frequency-band encoding information and high-frequency-band encoding information;

calculating a first spectrum from a decoding signal of the low-frequency-band encoding information; and

acquiring a first parameter and a second parameter, the first parameter being encoded as high-frequency-band encoding information and indicating an estimated spectrum that is most similar to a second spectrum, the second spectrum being included in each of a plurality of bands into which a high frequency band of the second spectrum corresponding to an original signal is divided and being estimated using the first spectrum, the second parameter being encoded as high-frequency-band encoding information and indicating an error component between the estimated spectrum and the high frequency band of the second spectrum; and

decoding the second spectrum using the acquired first parameter and second parameter.