Abstract:
Disclosed is a binaural rendering method and apparatus for decoding a multichannel audio signal. The binaural rendering method may include: extracting an early reflection component and a late reverberation component from a binaural filter; generating a stereo audio signal by performing binaural rendering of a multichannel audio signal base on the early reflection component; and applying the late reverberation component to the generated stereo audio signal.
Abstract:
An audio encoding apparatus and method that encodes hybrid contents including an object sound, a background sound, and metadata, and an audio decoding apparatus and method that decodes the encoded hybrid contents are provided. The audio encoding apparatus may include a mixing unit to generate an intermediate channel signal by mixing a background sound and an object sound, a matrix information encoding unit to encode matrix information used for the mixing, an audio encoding unit to encode the intermediate channel signal, and a metadata encoding unit to encode metadata including control information of the object sound.
Abstract:
An audio encoding apparatus to encode an audio signal using lossless coding or lossy coding and an audio decoding apparatus to decode an encoded audio signal are disclosed. An audio encoding apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment may include an input signal type determination unit to determine a type of an input signal based on characteristics of the input signal, a residual signal generation unit to generate a residual signal based on an output signal from the input signal type determination unit, and a coding unit to perform lossless coding or lossy coding using the residual signal.
Abstract:
An encoding/decoding apparatus and method for controlling a channel signal is disclosed, wherein the encoding apparatus may include an encoder to encode an object signal, a channel signal, and rendering information for the channel signal, and a bit stream generator to generate, as a bit stream, the encoded object signal, the encoded channel signal, and the encoded rendering information for the channel signal.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for generating audio data and an apparatus and method for playing audio data may be disclosed, in which the apparatus for playing the audio data may extract a descriptor related to a multichannel audio signal from a bitstream generated by the apparatus for generating the audio data, and play the multichannel audio signal, based on the extracted descriptor, and the descriptor may include information on an audio signal included in the multichannel audio signal.
Abstract:
An audio encoding apparatus to encode an audio signal using lossless coding or lossy coding and an audio decoding apparatus to decode an encoded audio signal are disclosed. An audio encoding apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment may include an input signal type determination unit to determine a type of an input signal based on characteristics of the input signal, a residual signal generation unit to generate a residual signal based on an output signal from the input signal type determination unit, and a coding unit to perform lossless coding or lossy coding using the residual signal.
Abstract:
A broadcast transmitting apparatus and method, and a broadcast playback apparatus and method for providing an object-based audio by encoding and decoding a multichannel audio signal are provided. The broadcast transmitting apparatus may generate audio identification information used to determine whether the multichannel audio signal is an object-based audio signal. When the multichannel audio signal is determined to be the object-based audio signal, based on the audio identification information, the broadcast playback apparatus may control and output the multichannel audio signal for each channel.
Abstract:
Provided is an acoustic processing apparatus capable of optional sound shielding that may selectively control a sound entering an acoustically shielded interior of a building or a vehicle and form a pleasant acoustic environment, including an acoustic receiver to obtain at least one external acoustic signal, an acoustic signal processor to process the obtained external acoustic signal, and a player to internally play the processed acoustic signal through at least one speaker.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of estimating a position by a position estimation system. The method includes generating a time-synchronization signal for position determination using a genetic algorithm, embedding the generated time-synchronization signal in an audio signal, and replaying the audio signal embedded with the time-synchronization signal through a speaker, receiving the audio signal embedded with the time-synchronization signal in a microphone, calculating a time delay value of the time-synchronization signal embedded in the received audio signal, and estimating a position of the microphone based on the calculated time delay value.
Abstract:
A frequency spectrum processing apparatus and method using a source filter are disclosed. The frequency spectrum processing apparatus may include a first excitation spectrum generation unit to generate a first excitation spectrum using a tonal excitation spectrum according to an input signal and a gain of the tonal excitation spectrum, a second excitation spectrum generation unit to generate a second excitation spectrum using a non-tonal excitation spectrum according to the input signal and a gain of the non-tonal excitation spectrum, and an output spectrum generation unit to generate an output spectrum using the first excitation spectrum and the second excitation spectrum.