Coding dense transient events with companding

    公开(公告)号:US11830507B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-28

    申请号:US17270035

    申请日:2019-08-21

    摘要: Embodiments are directed to a companding method and system for reducing coding noise in an audio codec. A method of processing an audio signal includes the following operations. A system receives an audio signal. The system determines that a first frame of the audio signal includes a sparse transient signal. The system determines that a second frame of the audio signal includes a dense transient signal. The system compresses/expands (compands) the audio signal using a companding rule that applies a first companding exponent to the first frame of the audio signal and applies a second companding exponent to the second frame of the audio signal, each companding exponent being used to derive a respective degree of dynamic range compression and expansion for a corresponding frame. The system then provides the companded audio signal to a downstream device.

    Cross product enhanced subband block based harmonic transposition

    公开(公告)号:US11355133B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US16917171

    申请日:2020-06-30

    发明人: Lars Villemoes

    摘要: The invention provides an efficient implementation of cross-product enhanced high-frequency reconstruction (HFR), wherein a new component at frequency QΩ+rΩ0 is generated on the basis of existing components at Ω and Ω+Ω0. The invention provides a block-based harmonic transposition, wherein a time block of complex subband samples is processed with a common phase modification. Superposition of several modified samples has the net effect of limiting undesirable intermodulation products, thereby enabling a coarser frequency resolution and/or lower degree of oversampling to be used. In one embodiment, the invention further includes a window function suitable for use with block-based cross-product enhanced HFR. A hardware embodiment of the invention may include an analysis filter bank, a subband processing unit configurable by control data and a synthesis filter bank.

    Methods and apparatus for reconstructing audio signals with decorrelation and differentially coded parameters

    公开(公告)号:US11308969B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-19

    申请号:US17063137

    申请日:2020-10-05

    发明人: Mark F. Davis

    摘要: A method performed in an audio decoder for decoding M encoded audio channels representing N audio channels is disclosed. The method includes receiving a bitstream containing the M encoded audio channels and a set of spatial parameters, decoding the M encoded audio channels, and extracting the set of spatial parameters from the bitstream. The method also includes analyzing the M audio channels to detect a location of a transient, decorrelating the M audio channels, and deriving N audio channels from the M audio channels and the set of spatial parameters. A first decorrelation technique is applied to a first subset of each audio channel and a second decorrelation technique is applied to a second subset of each audio channel. The first decorrelation technique represents a first mode of operation of a decorrelator, and the second decorrelation technique represents a second mode of operation of the decorrelator.