Decoding device, decoding method, encoding device, encoding method, and program

• US 9,542,952 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2013
• Issued: 01/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hatanaka, Mitsuyuki, Chinen, Toru
• Primary Examiner(s): Cordero, Marivelisse Santiago
• Assistant Examiner(s): BRINICH, STEPHEN M
• Application Number:
  US14/238,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20140156289A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,296 Days
• Field of Search: 704500-501, 704/201, 704/E19.001, 381 17- 22, 381/1, 381/300, 381/303, 381306-307
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/008 Multichannel audio signal coding or decoding using interchannel correlation to reduce redundancy, e.g. joint-stereo, intensity-coding or matrixing
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/167 Audio streaming, i.e. formatting and decoding of an encoded audio signal representation into a data stream for transmission or storage purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 2400/03 Aspects of down-mixing multi-channel audio to configurations with lower numbers of playback channels, e.g. 7.1 -> 5.1 H04S2400/01 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 2400/11 Positioning of individual sound objects, e.g. moving airplane, within a sound field H04S2420/13 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 3/008 in which the audio signals are in digital form, i.e. employing more than two discrete digital channels data reduction aspects thereof based on psychoacoustics G10L19/02

Abstract

The present technique relates to a decoding device, a decoding method, an encoding device, an encoding method, and a program which can obtain a high-quality realistic sound.

The encoding device stores speaker arrangement information in a comment region in a PCE of an encoded bit stream and stores a synchronous word and identification information in the comment region such that other public comments and the speaker arrangement information stored in the comment region can be distinguished from each other. When an encoded bit stream is decoded, it is determined whether the speaker arrangement information is stored on the basis of the synchronous word and the identification information stored in the comment region. Audio data included in the encoded bit stream is output according to the arrangement of the speakers corresponding to the determination result. The present technique can be applied to an encoding device.

Claims

1. A decoding device comprising:

processing circuitry including;

a decoding unit configured to decode audio data included in an encoded bit stream;

a reading unit configured to read sound source position information about a height of a sound source of the audio data from a region which can store arbitrary data of the encoded bit stream; and

an output unit configured to output the decoded audio data on the basis of the sound source position information,

wherein the sound source position information is information indicating that the height of the sound source is substantially equal to a height of a user, is greater than the height of the user, or is less than the height of the user,

wherein identification information for identifying whether the sound source position information is present is stored in the region which can store the arbitrary data, and the reading unit reads the sound source position information on the basis of the identification information,

wherein first predetermined identification information and second identification information which is calculated on the basis of the sound source position information are stored as the identification information in the region which can store the arbitrary data, and

wherein the reading unit determines that the sound source position information is valid when the first identification information included in the region which can store the arbitrary data is predetermined specific information and the second identification information read from the region which can store the arbitrary data is identical to the second identification information which is calculated on the basis of the read sound source position information.

2. The decoding device according to claim 1,

wherein the second identification information is calculated on the basis of information obtained by performing byte alignment for information including the sound source position information.

3. A decoding method comprising:

decoding, by processing circuitry, audio data included in an encoded bit stream;

reading, by the processing circuitry, sound source position information about a height of a sound source of the audio data from a region which can store arbitrary data of the encoded bit stream; and

outputting, by the processing circuitry, the decoded audio data on the basis of the sound source position information,

wherein the sound source position information is information indicating that the height of the sound source is substantially equal to a height of a user, is greater than the height of the user, or is less than the height of the user,

wherein identification information for identifying whether the sound source position information is present is stored in the region which can store the arbitrary data, and the sound source position information is read on the basis of the identification information,

wherein first predetermined identification information and second identification information which is calculated on the basis of the sound source position information are stored as the identification information in the region which can store the arbitrary data, and

wherein the sound source position information is determined to be valid when the first identification information included in the region which can store the arbitrary data is predetermined specific information and the second identification information read from the region which can store the arbitrary data is identical to the second identification information which is calculated on the basis of the read sound source position information.

4. A computer-readable storage device encoded with computer-executable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, perform a process comprising:

decoding audio data included in an encoded bit stream;

reading sound source position information about a height of a sound source of the audio data from a region which can store arbitrary data of the encoded bit stream; and

outputting the decoded audio data on the basis of the sound source position information,

wherein the sound source position information is information indicating that the height of the sound source is substantially equal to a height of a user, is greater than the height of the user, or is less than the height of the user,

wherein identification information for identifying whether the sound source position information is present is stored in the region which can store the arbitrary data, and the sound source position information is read on the basis of the identification information,

wherein first predetermined identification information and second identification information which is calculated on the basis of the sound source position information are stored as the identification information in the region which can store the arbitrary data, and

wherein the sound source position information is determined to be valid when the first identification information included in the region which can store the arbitrary data is predetermined specific information and the second identification information read from the region which can store the arbitrary data is identical to the second identification information which is calculated on the basis of the read sound source position information.