Acoustic signal encoding device, and acoustic signal decoding device
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsYoshiaki Takagi, Naoya Tanaka
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Abstract
An acoustic signal encoding device for down-mixing at different ratios to encode a multichannel signal with a small number of channels, and an acoustic signal decoding device for decoding the signal encoded by the acoustic signal encoding device. In these devices, weighting means (103) in the acoustic signal encoding device (100) weights input signals of two channels individually according to a down-mixing coefficient thereby to calculate the level difference of the signals of two channels weighted by a level difference calculation unit (104). A separating unit (202) in the acoustic signal decoding device (200) separates the down-mixed signals into signals of two channels with the level difference information weighted.
Claims4
An acoustic signal encoding apparatus comprising:
- a down-mixing section that mixes signals of a plurality of channels into a one-channel down-mixed signal at a ratio indicated by a down-mixing coefficient;
- a level difference calculation section that calculates level difference information of the signals of the plurality of channels;
- a quantization section that quantizes the level difference information calculated by the level difference calculation section using a quantization characteristic that resolution decreases as the magnitude of the level difference information becomes remote from 0;
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- a multiplexing section that multiplexes the down-mixed signal mixed by the down-mixing section with the level difference information quantized by the quantization section and thereby forms a bit stream.
An acoustic signal decoding apparatus comprising:
- a demultiplexing section that extracts a down-mixed signal and quantization level difference information from a bit stream formed with a one-channel down-mixed signal in which signals of a plurality of channels are mixed at a ratio indicated by a down-mixing coefficient and level difference information obtained by quantizing level differences of the signals of the plurality of channels;
- a dequantization section that converts the quantization level difference information extracted by the demultiplexing section to level difference information before quantization;
- a weighting section that assigns weights to the level difference information converted by the dequantization section according to the down-mixing coefficient used for the formation of the bit stream;
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- a separation section that separates the down-mixed signal extracted by the demultiplexing section into a plurality of channels before mixing using the level difference information weighted by the weighting section.
An acoustic signal encoding method comprising the steps of:
- mixing signals of a plurality of channels into a one-channel down-mixed signal at a ratio indicated by a down-mixing coefficient;
- calculating level difference information of the signals of the plurality of channels;
- quantizing the level difference information using a quantization characteristic that resolution decreases as the magnitude of the level difference information becomes remote from 0;
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- multiplexing the mixed down-mixed signal with the quantized level difference information and thereby forming a bit stream.
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