Method and apparatus for decoding audio signal

• US 9,111,535 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2011
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Yang, Heesik, Lee, Mi-Suk, Kim, Hyun-Woo, Sung, Jongmo, Bae, Hyun-Joo, Lee, Byung-Sun
• Primary Examiner(s): ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS
• Application Number:
  US13/011,273
• Publication Number:
  US 20110178807A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,670 Days
• Field of Search: 704/500, 381/106, 381/107
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/093 using sinusoidal excitation models
• 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

Abstract

Provided are a method and an apparatus for decoding an audio signal. A method for decoding an audio signal encoded by a layered sinusoidal pulse coding scheme using one or more sinusoidal pulses includes decoding the encoded audio signal, setting a smoothing frequency band of the decoded audio signal according to a layer structure of the layered sinusoidal pulse coding scheme, dividing the smoothing frequency band into one or more subbands, and smoothing the decoded audio signal on a subband-by-subband basis. Accordingly, a decoding operation time can be reduced and the quality of a synthesized signal can be improved by variably setting a frequency band to be smoothed, when decoding an audio signal encoded by a layered sinusoidal pulse coding scheme using one or more sinusoidal pulses.

Claims

1. A method for decoding an audio signal encoded by a layered sinusoidal coding scheme using one or more sinusoidal pulses, comprising:

decoding the encoded audio signal;

setting a smoothing frequency band of the decoded audio signal according to a layer structure of the layered sinusoidal coding scheme;

dividing the smoothing frequency band into one or more subbands; and

smoothing a time-axis of the decoded audio signal on a subband-by-subband basis,

wherein the smoothing of the time-axis of the decoded audio signal on a subband-by-subband basis comprises smoothing position, gain factor, and code of a sinusoidal pulse used to encode the audio signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the setting a smoothing frequency band of the decoded audio signal according to a layer structure of the layered sinusoidal coding scheme comprises setting the smoothing frequency band variably according to the number of bits allocated on a subband-by-subband basis when encoding the audio signal by the layered sinusoidal coding scheme.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the setting a smoothing frequency band of the decoded audio signal according to a layer structure of the layered sinusoidal coding scheme comprises setting the smoothing frequency band according to static characteristics of the encoded audio signal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the smoothing of the time-axis of the decoded audio signal on a subband-by-subband basis comprises smoothing of the time-axis of the decoded audio signal with reference to a prestored audio signal of the previous frame of the decoded audio signal.

12. The method of claim 3, wherein the static characteristics of the encoded audio signal is the size of a time-axis change of the audio signal.

5. An apparatus for decoding an audio signal encoded by a layered sinusoidal coding scheme using one or more sinusoidal pulses, comprising one or more processors configured to embody a plurality of functional units including:

a decoding unit configured to decode the encoded audio signal;

a smoothing frequency band setting unit configured to set a smoothing frequency band of the decoded audio signal according to a layer structure of the layered sinusoidal coding scheme; and

a smoothing unit configured to divide the smoothing frequency band into one or more subbands and smooth a time-axis of the decoded audio signal on a subband-by-subband basis,

wherein the smoothing unit smooths position, gain factor, and code of a sinusoidal pulse used to encode the audio signal.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the smoothing frequency band setting unit sets the smoothing frequency band variably according to the number of bits allocated on a subband-by-subband basis when encoding the audio signal by the layered sinusoidal coding scheme.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the smoothing frequency band setting unit sets the smoothing frequency band according to static characteristics of the encoded audio signal.

8. The apparatus of claim 5, further comprising a delay buffer configured to store an audio signal of the previous frame of the decoded audio signal,

wherein the smoothing unit smooths the time-axis of the decoded audio signal with reference to an audio signal of the previous frame of the decoded audio signal prestored in the delay buffer.

13. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the static characteristics of the encoded audio signal is the size of a time-axis change of the audio signal.

9. An audio signal decoding method comprising:

receiving an encoded audio signal;

decoding the encoded audio signal;

setting a smoothing frequency band of the decoded audio signal according to the number of bits allocated to the encoded audio signal; and

smoothing a time-axis of the decoded audio signal with respect to the smoothing frequency band,

wherein the smoothing of the time-axis of the decoded audio signal with respect to the smoothing frequency band comprises smoothing position, gain factor, and code of a sinusoidal pulse used to encode the audio signal.

10. The audio signal decoding method of claim 9, wherein the smoothing of the time-axis of the decoded audio signal with respect to the smoothing frequency band comprises:

dividing the smoothing frequency band into one or more subbands; and

smoothing of the time-axis of the decoded audio signal on a subband-by-subband basis.

11. The audio signal decoding method of claim 9, wherein the smoothing of the time-axis of the decoded audio signal with respect to the smoothing frequency band comprises smoothing of the time-axis of the decoded audio signal with reference to a prestored audio signal of the previous frame of the decoded audio signal.