Systems and methods of performing gain adjustment

• US 9,899,032 B2
• Filed: 02/02/2017
• Issued: 02/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Atti, Venkatraman, Krishnan, Venkatesh
• Primary Examiner(s): MCFADDEN, SUSAN IRIS
• Application Number:
  US15/422,856
• Publication Number:
  US 20170148460A1
• Time in Patent Office: 383 Days
• Field of Search: 704225
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/032 Quantisation or dequantisation of spectral components
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/035 Scalar quantisation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/06 Determination or coding of the spectral characteristics, e.g. of the short-term prediction coefficients
• 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: G10L 2019/0003 Backward prediction of gain
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/038 using band spreading techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 3/301 the gain being continuously variable
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 3/3089 Control of digital or coded signals

Abstract

A method of performing gain adjustment in an electronic device includes determining a first set of spectral frequency values and determining a second set of spectral frequency values. The first set of spectral frequency values corresponds to a high-band portion of an audio signal received at the electronic device. The second set of spectral frequency values approximates the first set of spectral frequency values in the high band portion of the audio signal. The method includes estimating a spectral distortion corresponding to a difference between the first set of spectral frequency values and the second set of spectral frequency values and adjusting, based on the spectral distortion, a gain value corresponding to at least a portion of the audio signal. The method also includes transmitting an encoded bitstream that includes information corresponding to the adjusted gain value and the second set of spectral frequency values.

Claims

1. A method of performing gain adjustment in an electronic device, the method comprising:

determining a first set of spectral frequency values corresponding to a high-band portion of an audio signal received at the electronic device;

determining a second set of spectral frequency values that approximates the first set;

estimating a spectral distortion corresponding to a difference between the first set and the second set;

adjusting, based on the spectral distortion, a gain value corresponding to at least a portion of the audio signal; and

transmitting an encoded bitstream that includes information corresponding to the adjusted gain value and the second set.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the at least a portion of the audio signal corresponds to a frame of the audio signal, and

the gain value is adjusted based on a gain factor that is determined based on a mapping of spectral distortion values to gain factor values.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the gain value is adjusted based on a gain factor determined based on the spectral distortion, the gain factor applied to a frame gain that is determined based on a synthesized high-band signal and based on the high-band portion of the audio signal.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a high-band gain parameter based on the adjusted gain value, the adjusted gain value based on a gain factor and based on a frame gain; and

producing high-band side information that includes the high-band gain parameter.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the at least a portion of the audio signal corresponds to a frame of the audio signal, and

adjusting the gain value corresponds to applying a gain factor to a frame gain to attenuate the frame gain, the gain factor determined based on the spectral distortion.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second set includes quantized spectral frequency values, and wherein the spectral distortion is estimated based on an absolute difference between values in the second set as compared to values in the first set.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first set includes line spectral frequency (LSF) values produced by a high-band analysis module of the electronic device, and

the second set includes quantized LSF values produced by a quantizer configured to access multiple entries of a codebook at the high-band analysis module.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the spectral distortion is determined according to a mean square error of values in the second set as compared to values in the first set.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the gain value is adjusted based on a gain factor, wherein the gain factor is determined based on a mapping of spectral distortion values to gain factor values, and wherein the mapping is at least partially based on spectral distortion values corresponding to outliers of a probability distribution function.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic device comprises at least one of an encoder or a decoder, and wherein the spectral distortion is estimated at the electronic device based on a difference between line spectral frequency (LSF) values of the first set and approximated LSF values of the second set.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the gain value is based on a frame gain and is adjusted based on the spectral distortion,

the frame gain is calculated based on the high-band portion of the audio signal and based on a synthesized high-band signal, and

the synthesized high-band signal is determined based on mixing a transformed low-band excitation signal with modulated noise.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the gain value is determined based on a comparison of a high-band portion of the audio signal to a synthesized high-band signal, the synthesized high-band signal generated based on a version of a low-band excitation signal, modulated noise, and a mixing factor.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least a portion of the audio signal includes a frame of the audio signal, wherein the gain value is determined based on a high-band excitation signal, and wherein the high-band excitation signal corresponds to a high-band portion of the audio signal.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic device includes a mobile communication device, and wherein the determining of the first set and of the second set, the estimating, and the adjusting are performed within the mobile communication device.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic device includes a media playback device, and wherein the determining of the first set and of the second set, the estimating, and the adjusting are performed within the media playback device.

16. An apparatus for performing gain adjustment, the apparatus comprising:

an analysis filter configured to determine a first set of spectral frequency values corresponding to a high-band portion of a received audio signal;

a quantizer configured to generate a second set of spectral frequency values that approximates the first set;

a spectral distortion calculator configured to estimate a spectral distortion corresponding to a difference between the first set and the second set;

a gain circuit configured to adjust, based on the spectral distortion, a gain value corresponding to at least a portion of the received audio signal; and

a transmitter configured to transmit an encoded bitstream that includes information corresponding to the adjusted gain value and the second set.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising a frame gain calculator configured to calculate a frame gain based on the high-band portion of the received audio signal and based on a synthesized high-band signal, wherein the gain circuit is configured to adjust the gain value based on the frame gain calculated by the frame gain calculator, and wherein the synthesized high-band signal is generated based on a transformed low-band excitation signal, modulated noise, and a mixing factor.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising a mapping module configured to receive the spectral distortion, to apply a mapping of spectral distortion values to gain factor values, and to produce a gain factor, wherein the gain circuit is configured to attenuate the gain value based on the gain factor, and wherein a portion of the mapping defines that an increase in spectral distortion value corresponds to a decrease in gain factor value.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the second set includes quantized spectral frequency values, wherein the spectral distortion calculator is configured to determine the spectral distortion according to an absolute difference between values in the second set as compared to values in the first set or according to a mean square error of values in the second set as compared to values in the first set.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising:

an input device that includes a microphone or an antenna; and

a receiver configured to receive from the input device a signal corresponding to the received audio signal.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the receiver, the quantizer, the spectral distortion calculator, and the gain circuit are integrated into a mobile communication device.

22. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the receiver, the quantizer, the spectral distortion calculator, and the gain circuit are integrated into a media playback device.

23. A computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computer in an electronic device configured to perform gain adjustment, cause the computer to initiate operations comprising:

determining a first set of spectral frequency values corresponding to a high-band portion of an audio signal received at the electronic device;

determining a second set of spectral frequency values that approximates the first set;

estimating a spectral distortion corresponding to a difference between the first set and the second set;

adjusting a gain value corresponding to at least a portion of the audio signal based on the spectral distortion; and

transmitting an encoded bitstream that includes information corresponding to the adjusted gain value and the second set.

24. The computer-readable medium of claim 23, wherein the gain value corresponds to a frame gain of a frame of the audio signal, and wherein the adjusting of the gain value includes:

determining a gain factor based on the spectral distortion; and

attenuating the frame gain by applying the gain factor to the frame gain.

25. An apparatus for performing gain adjustment, the apparatus comprising:

means for determining a first set of spectral frequency values corresponding to a high-band portion of a received audio signal;

means for generating a second set of spectral frequency values that approximates the first set;

means for estimating a spectral distortion corresponding to a difference between the first set and the second set;

means for adjusting a gain value corresponding to at least a portion of the received audio signal based on the spectral distortion; and

means for transmitting an encoded bitstream that includes information corresponding to the adjusted gain value and the second set.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the first set comprises line spectral frequency (LSF) values, and wherein the second set comprises quantized LSF values.

27. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the first set comprises linear prediction coefficient (LPC) values, and wherein the second set comprises quantized LPC values.

28. The apparatus of claim 25, further comprising means for determining the second set by searching a codebook based on the first set, wherein the means for adjusting is configured to attenuate the gain value based on a gain factor, and wherein the gain factor is determined based on a mapping of spectral distortion values to gain factor values.

29. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the means for determining, the means for generating, the means for estimating, and the means for adjusting are integrated into a mobile communication device.

30. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the means for determining, the means for generating, the means for estimating, and the means for adjusting are integrated into a media playback device.