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US 2010/0161342 A1Published application
Coding apparatus and method, decoding apparatus and method, and program storage medium
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMitsuyuki HATANAKA, Mitsuru Tanabe
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Abstract
In order to obtain coded data which does not strike viewers and listeners as being incongruous, when plural audio data are to be coded, a coding program groups the respective audio data into one audio data, codes the grouped audio data in sequence with a predetermined number of samples being treated as units, and sets delimitations corresponding to the delimitations of the plural audio data in the coded data at coding units of the coded data.
Claims4
A decoding apparatus, comprising:
- determination unit configured to determine the relationship between first coded data and second coded data;
- decoder configured to decode said first coded data and said second coded data as one coded data in unit of a predetermined number of codes according to the determination result of said determination unit.
A decoding method, comprising the steps of:
- determining the relationship between first coded data and second coded data;
- decoding said first coded data and said second coded data as one coded data in unit of a predetermined number of codes according to the determination result of said determining step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.