Encoding device, decoding device, and method thereof

• US 8,417,515 B2
• Filed: 05/13/2005
• Issued: 04/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Oshikiri, Masahiro, Ehara, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Paras D
• Assistant Examiner(s): BAKER, MATTHEW H
• Application Number:
  US11/596,085
• Publication Number:
  US 20080027733A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,888 Days
• Field of Search: 704/500
• US Class Current: 704/205
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/0364 for improving intelligibility
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/038 using band spreading techniques

Abstract

There is disclosed an encoding device capable of appropriately adjusting the dynamic range of spectrum inserted according to the technique for replacing a spectrum of a certain band with a spectrum of another band. The device includes a spectrum modification unit (112) which modifies a first spectrum S1(k) of the band 0≦k<FL in various ways to change the dynamic range so that a way of modification for obtaining an appropriate dynamic range is checked. The information concerning the modification is encoded and given to a multiplexing unit (115). By using a second spectrum S2(k) having a valid signal band 0≦k.

Claims

1. A coding apparatus comprising:

a coder, including a processor, that codes estimated information of a high frequency band spectrum of an input signal having a wideband spectrum comprising a low frequency band spectrum and the high frequency band spectrum; and

a limiter that acquires a first low frequency band spectrum in which a coded signal of the low frequency band spectrum of the input signal is decoded, and generates a second low frequency band spectrum by modifying a dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum to be closer to a dynamic range of a high frequency band spectrum,

wherein the coder receives as input the wideband spectrum of the input signal as a reference signal, estimates, as the estimated information, a most similar spectrum to the high frequency band spectrum of the input signal using the wideband spectrum and the second low frequency band spectrum, and codes information about the estimated spectrum to supplant the high frequency band spectrum.

2. The coding apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a transmitter that transmits dynamic range modification information used at the limiter together with coded information obtained by the coder.

3. The coding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the limiter modifies the dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum so that an average deviation of the second low frequency band spectrum amplitude is equivalent to an average deviation of amplitude of the high frequency band spectrum.

4. The coding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the limiter generates the second low frequency band spectrum by uniformly raising the amplitude of the first low frequency band spectrum to the power of a predetermined value within a range from 0 to 1.

5. The coding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the coder comprises:

a pitch filter that has the second low frequency band spectrum as an internal state; and

an estimator that estimates the high frequency band spectrum of the input signal using the pitch filter,

wherein characteristics of the pitch filter corresponding to an estimation result of the estimator are coded.

6. The coding apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the pitch filter characteristics are indicated by the following transfer function:

7. The coding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the limiter estimates dynamic range modification information and generates the second low frequency band spectrum using the estimated dynamic range modification information.

8. The coding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the limiter comprises:

a dynamic range calculator that calculates dynamic range information using the first low frequency band spectrum;

a modification information estimator that estimates modification information for modifying the dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum using the dynamic range information; and

a modifier that modifies the dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum using the estimated modification information.

9. The coding apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the limiter comprises:

a modification information estimator that estimates the modification information for modifying the dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum using pitch information indicating periodicity of the input signal; and

a modifier that modifies the dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum using the estimated modification information.

10. The coding apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the pitch information is configured using at least one of pitch gain and pitch period.

11. The coding apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the limiter comprises:

a modification information estimator that estimates the modification information for modifying the dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum using spectrum outline information of the input signal; and

a modifier that modifies the dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum using the estimated modification information.

12. The coding apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the modification information estimator comprises:

a spectrum outline information storage unit that stores a plurality of candidates for spectrum outline information; and

a dynamic range information storage unit that stores a plurality of candidates for dynamic range information, wherein;

a candidate for spectrum outline information corresponding to spectrum outline information of the input signal is selected from the spectrum outline information storage unit; and

the modification information is estimated by selecting a candidate for dynamic range information corresponding to the selected candidate for spectrum outline information from the dynamic range information storage unit.

13. The coding apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first classifier that classifies the first low frequency band spectrum into a plurality of groups according to differences in amplitude;

a first typical value acquirer that acquires a typical value for amplitude for each group of the first low frequency band spectrum;

a second classifier that classifies the high frequency band spectrum into a plurality of groups according to differences in amplitude; and

a second typical value acquirer that acquires a typical value for amplitude for each group of the high frequency band spectrum,

wherein the limiter modifies the dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum based on the typical value for each group of the first low frequency band spectrum and the typical value for each group of the high frequency band spectrum.

14. The coding apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the limiter obtains amplitude between the typical values by carrying out linear interpolation on the typical values.

15. The coding apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the limiter modifies the dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum based on a ratio between the typical value for each group of the first low frequency band spectrum and the typical value for each group of the high frequency band spectrum.

16. The coding apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the first and second typical value acquirers acquire same kind of value from among an average value and a central value of the amplitude for each group.

19. A communication terminal apparatus comprising the coding apparatus according to claim 1.

20. A base station apparatus comprising the coding apparatus according to claim 1.

17. A decoding apparatus comprising:

a converter, including a processor, that generates a first low frequency band spectrum in which a decoded signal of code of a low frequency band spectrum included in code generated in a coding apparatus is converted to a frequency domain signal;

a decoder that decodes code of a high frequency band spectrum included in the code generated in the coding apparatus; and

a limiter that generates a second low frequency band spectrum in which the dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum is modified to be closer to the dynamic range of the high frequency band spectrum of a signal input to the coding apparatus according to spectrum modification information included in the code generated in the coding apparatus,

wherein the decoder generates information about estimation of the high frequency band spectrum by decoding the code of the high frequency band spectrum and generates an estimated spectrum of the high frequency band spectrum by applying the information about estimation of the high frequency band spectrum to the second low frequency band spectrum.

21. A communication terminal apparatus comprising the decoding apparatus according to claim 17.

22. A base station apparatus comprising the decoding apparatus according to claim 17.

18. A decoding apparatus comprising:

a converter, including a processor, that generates a first low frequency band spectrum in which a decoded signal of code of a low frequency band spectrum included in code generated in a coding apparatus is converted to a frequency domain signal;

a decoder that decodes code of a high frequency band spectrum included in the code generated in the coding apparatus; and

a limiter that generates a second low frequency band spectrum in which a dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum is modified so as to become close to a dynamic range of the high frequency band spectrum of a signal input to the coding apparatus, wherein;

the limiter estimates dynamic range modification information based on the first low frequency band spectrum and generates the second low frequency band spectrum by applying the estimated dynamic range modification information to the first low frequency band spectrum; and

the decoder generates information about estimation of the high frequency band spectrum by decoding the code of the high frequency band spectrum and generates an estimated spectrum of the high frequency band spectrum by applying the information about estimation of the high frequency band spectrum to the second low frequency band spectrum.

23. A communication terminal apparatus comprising the decoding apparatus according to claim 18.

24. A base station apparatus comprising the decoding apparatus according to claim 18.

25. A coding method comprising:

coding, by a coder, estimated information of a high frequency band spectrum of an input signal having a wideband spectrum comprising a low frequency band spectrum and the high frequency band spectrum;

acquiring a first low frequency band spectrum in which a coded signal of the low frequency band spectrum of the input signal is decoded; and

generating a second low frequency band spectrum by modifying a dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum to be closer to a dynamic range of a high frequency hand spectrum,

wherein coding estimated information of a high frequency band spectrum of an input signal receives as input the wideband spectrum of the input signal as a reference signal, estimates, as the estimated information, a most similar spectrum to the high frequency band spectrum of the input signal using the wideband spectrum and the second low frequency band spectrum, and codes information about the estimated spectrum to supplant the high frequency band spectrum.

26. A decoding method comprising:

generating a first low frequency band spectrum in which a decoded signal of code of a low frequency band spectrum included in code generated in a coding apparatus is converted to a frequency domain signal;

decoding, by a decoder, code of a high frequency band spectrum included in the code generated in the coding apparatus;

acquiring spectrum modification information included in the code generated in the coding apparatus; and

generating a second low frequency band spectrum in which a dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum is modified to be closer to a dynamic range of a high frequency band spectrum of a signal input to the coding apparatus,

wherein decoding code of a high frequency band spectrum generates information about estimation of the high frequency band spectrum by decoding the code of the high frequency band spectrum and generates an estimated spectrum of the high frequency band spectrum by applying the estimated information to the second low frequency band spectrum.

27. A decoding method comprising:

generating a first low frequency band spectrum in which a decoded signal of code of a low frequency band spectrum included in code generated in a coding apparatus is converted to a frequency domain signal;

decoding, by a decoder, code of a high frequency band spectrum included in the code generated in the coding apparatus; and

generating a second low frequency band spectrum in which a dynamic range of the first low frequency band spectrum is modified to be closer to a dynamic range of a high frequency band spectrum of a signal input to the coding apparatus, wherein;

generating a second low frequency band spectrum estimates dynamic range modification information based on the first low frequency band spectrum and generates the second low frequency band spectrum by applying the estimated dynamic range modification information to the first low frequency band spectrum; and

decoding code of a high frequency band spectrum generates information about estimation of the high frequency band spectrum by decoding the code of the high frequency band spectrum and generates an estimated spectrum of the high frequency band spectrum by applying the estimated information to the second low frequency band spectrum.