Methods and apparatus for coding digital audio signals using a filtered quantizing noise
First Claim
1. A method of coding an input audio signal comprising the steps:
- combining said input audio signal with an intermediate feedback signal forming a modified input signal;
quantizing said modified input signal;
delivering a quantizing index binary frame of a predetermined bit rate;
inverse quantizing of some of the quantizing indices of the binary frame corresponding to the indices of a core bit rate lower than the predetermined bit rate, to determine a core bit rate reconstructed signal;
determining quantizing noise generated at least by the succession of the quantizing step and the inverse quantizing step;
determining a quantizing noise filter function from said core bit rate reconstructed signal; and
applying said filter function to said quantizing noise to obtain said intermediate feedback signal.
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Abstract
The invention concerns an encoder for an input audio signal (S(z)) comprising a combination module combining the input audio signal with an intermediate counter-reaction signal forming a modified input signal and a quantification module scalable for the rate (91) of said modified input signal, delivering a binary raster of quantification indexes of a predetermined rate. This encoder is such that it comprises: a reverse quantification module (93) of a part of the quantification indexes of the binary raster corresponding to the indexes of a rate lower than the predetermined rate, for predetermining a reconstructed signal (SMic(z)), a module for determining (94) a quantification noise (QMic(z)) derived from at least quantification modules and reverse quantification modules in series, a determination module (111) for a filtering function of the quantification noise from said reconstructed signal and a filtering module fit for applying (33) said filtering function to said quantification noise in order to obtain said intermediary counter-reaction signal. The invention also relates to an encoding method applied by the described encoder and a corresponding decoding method applied by a decoder.
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13 Claims
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1. A method of coding an input audio signal comprising the steps:
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combining said input audio signal with an intermediate feedback signal forming a modified input signal; quantizing said modified input signal; delivering a quantizing index binary frame of a predetermined bit rate; inverse quantizing of some of the quantizing indices of the binary frame corresponding to the indices of a core bit rate lower than the predetermined bit rate, to determine a core bit rate reconstructed signal; determining quantizing noise generated at least by the succession of the quantizing step and the inverse quantizing step; determining a quantizing noise filter function from said core bit rate reconstructed signal; and applying said filter function to said quantizing noise to obtain said intermediate feedback signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 12)
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6. A method for scalable decoding of an audio signal, said method comprising:
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a first step of inverse quantization decoding quantizing indices of a core bit rate to form a core bit rate reconstructed signal; a second step of inverse quantization decoding quantizing indices of a second bit rate higher than the core bit rate, executed as a function of the bit rate received on decoding, to form a reconstructed signal of higher bit rate; a third step of obtaining a difference signal between said core bit rate reconstructed signal and said higher bit rate reconstructed signal; a fourth step of determining a correction filter function from the core bit rate reconstructed signal; a filtering step capable of applying said correction filter function to said difference signal to obtain a corrective term; a fifth step of synthesizing a corrected reconstructed signal at higher bit rate capable of combining said corrective term and one of the reconstructed signals. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 13)
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10. An input audio signal coder comprising a combination module combining the input audio signal with an intermediate feedback signal to form a modified input signal and a bit rate scalable quantizing module for quantizing said modified input signal to deliver a binary frame of quantizing indices of predetermined bit rate, said input audio signal coder further comprising:
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a module for inverse quantization of some of the quantizing indices of the binary frame corresponding to the indices of a core bit rate lower than the predetermined bit rate, to determine a core bit rate reconstructed signal; a module for determining a quantizing noise generated at least by the succession of the quantizing step and the inverse quantizing step; a module for determining a quantizing noise filter function from said core bit rate reconstructed signal; a module for applying said filter function to said quantizing noise to obtain said intermediate feedback signal.
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11. An audio signal decoder comprising:
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a first module for inverse quantization decoding quantizing indices at core bit rate to form a core bit rate reconstructed signal; a second module for inverse quantization decoding quantizing indices at a second bit rate higher than the core bit rate, executed as a function of the bit rate received on decoding, to form a reconstructed signal of higher bit rate; a module for obtaining a difference signal between said core bit rate reconstructed signal and said higher bit rate reconstructed signal; a module for determining a correction filter function from the core bit rate reconstructed signal; a module for applying said correction filter function to said difference signal to obtain a corrective term; a module for synthesizing a corrected reconstructed signal at higher bit rate by combining said corrective term and one of the reconstructed signals.
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