Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Foshan Shunde Midea Washing Appliances Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Crystal Clear Codec, LLC

Crystal Clear Codec Spólka Z O.o.

Chen Hu

Lei Miao

Qing Feng Zhang

Zexin Liu

Longyin Chen

Herve Marcel Taddei

Jianfeng Xu

Zhengzhong Du

Fengyan Qi

Yi Yang

Yue Lang

Wenhai Wu

Wuzhou Zhan

Dongqi Wang

Wei Li

Lijing Xu

Jing Wen Wang

Jing Liu

Yongfeng Tu

Anisse Taleb

Qing Zhang

Wei Xiao

Cheng Chen

Jing Wang

Ao Li Wang

Wen Chao Wang

Xunzhang Wang

Yihua Zou

Feng Ming Zou

Qing Song Liu

Shenghu Sang

Qing Wang Liu

Zi Ping Qi

Zhibiao Zheng

Zong Ru Jiang

Ling Shen

Yaohua Guan

Marcel Taddei Herve

Li Wang

Xi Xiang Li

Marcel Taddel Herve

Range hood

The present disclosure provides a speech/audio signal processing method based on wideband switching and a coding apparatus. The method includes: if a first wideband speech/audio signal is a harmonic signal, adjusting a determining condition for determining that a second wideband speech/audio signal is a harmonic signal, to obtain a first determining condition, where the first wideband speech/audio signal is a signal before wideband switching, and the second wideband speech/audio signal is a signal after the wideband switching; and determining, according to the first determining condition, whether the second wideband speech/audio signal is a harmonic signal. In the case of wideband switching, signal types of speech/audio signals remain as consistent as possible before and after the switching, so that continuity of the speech/audio signal decoded by a decoder device is ensured as much as possible, further improving speech communication service quality.

Speech/audio signal processing method and coding apparatus

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide signal encoding and decoding methods and devices. The method includes: determining, a quantity k of subbands to be encoded, where i is a positive number, and k is a positive integer; selecting, according to quantized envelopes of all subbands, k subbands from all the subbands, or selecting k subbands from all subbands according to a psychoacoustic model; and performing a first-time encoding operation on spectral coefficients of the k subbands. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the quantity k of subbands to be encoded is determined according to the quantity of available bits and the first saturation threshold, and encoding is performed on the k subbands that are selected from all the subbands, instead of on an entire frequency band.

Dynamic bit allocation methods and devices for audio signal

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide signal encoding and decoding methods and devices. The method includes: determining, a quantity k of subbands to be encoded, where i is a positive number, and k is a positive integer; selecting, according to quantized envelopes of all subbands, k subbands from all the subbands, or selecting k subbands from all subbands according to a psychoacoustic model; and performing a first-time encoding operation on spectral coefficients of the k subbands. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the quantity k of subbands to be encoded is determined according to the quantity of available bits and the first saturation threshold, and encoding is performed on the k subbands that are selected from all the subbands, instead of on an entire frequency band, which can reduce spectrum holes of a signal obtained through decoding, and therefore, can improve auditory quality of an output signal.

Embodiments of the present application proposes a frequency envelope vector quantization method and apparatus, where the method includes: dividing N frequency envelopes in one frame into N1 vectors; quantizing a first vector in the N1 vectors by using a first codebook, to obtain a code word corresponding to the quantized first vector, where the first codebook is divided into 2portions; determining, according to the code word corresponding to the quantized first vector; determining a second codebook according to the codebook of the iportion; and quantizing a second vector in the N1 vectors based on the second codebook. In the embodiments of the present application, vector quantization can be performed on frequency envelope vectors by using a codebook with a smaller quantity of bits. Therefore, complexity of vector quantization can be reduced, and an effect of vector quantization can also be ensured.

Frequency envelope vector quantization method and apparatus

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for generating a sideband residual signal. The method includes: comparing energy of a first signal input by a first sound channel with energy of a second signal input by a second sound channel; if the energy of the first signal is greater than the energy of the second signal, generating a sideband residual signal by allocating a monophonic quantization error to the first signal; and if the energy of the first signal is smaller than the energy of the second signal, generating a sideband residual signal by allocating a monophonic quantization error to the second signal. By using the method and apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention, it can be avoided that a monophonic quantization error has a greater impact on a signal whose energy is smaller.

Method and apparatus for generating sideband residual signal

A stereo encoding method, a stereo encoding device, and an encoder are provided. The stereo encoding method includes: obtaining a left channel energy relation coefficient and a right channel energy relation coefficient; obtaining a left energy sum and a right energy sum respectively; performing cross correlation between sub-bands of a first monophonic signal at a wave trough and sub-bands of the left channel signal according to the left channel energy relation coefficient, and performing cross correlation between sub-bands of the first monophonic signal at the wave trough and sub-bands of the right channel signal according to the right channel energy relation coefficient; obtaining a scaling factor by using the left energy sum, the right energy sum, and cross correlation results; and encoding the stereo left and right channel signals according to the scaling factor.

Stereo encoding method, stereo encoding device, and encoder

In the field of audio encoding/decoding technologies, a signal de-noising method is provided. The method includes: selecting, according to a degree of inter-frame correlation of a frame where a spectral coefficient to be adjusted resides, at least two spectral coefficients having high correlation with the spectral coefficient to be adjusted; performing weighting on the at least two selected spectral coefficients and the spectral coefficient to be adjusted to acquire a predicted value of the spectral coefficient to be adjusted; and adjusting a spectrum of a decoded signal by using the acquired predicted value, and outputting the adjusted decoded signal. A signal de-noising apparatus corresponding to the signal de-noising method and an audio decoding system using the signal de-noising apparatus are also provided.

Audio signal de-noising utilizing inter-frame correlation to restore missing spectral coefficients

The present disclosure relates to a signal analyzer for processing an overlapped input signal frame comprising 2N subsequent input signal values. The signal analyzer comprises: a windower adapted to window the overlapped input signal frame to obtain a windowed signal, wherein the windower is adapted to zero M+N/2 subsequent input signal values of the overlapped input signal frame, wherein M is equal or greater than 1 and smaller than N/2; and a transformer adapted to transform the remaining 3N/2&#x2212;M subsequent windowed signal values of the windowed signal using N&#x2212;M sets of transform parameters to obtain a transformed-domain signal comprising N&#x2212;M transformed-domain signal values.

Signal analyzer, signal analyzing method, signal synthesizer, signal synthesizing, windower, transformer and inverse transformer

A multi-channel signal encoding method includes: determining a sum of channel level differences (CLDs) of a current frame of a multi-channel signal in a certain frequency band area; determining an average value of sums of channel level differences of at least two frames before the current frame in the certain frequency band area; according to the sum of channel level differences of the current frame of the multi-channel signal in the certain frequency band area, the average value of the sums of channel level differences of at least two frames before the current frame in the certain frequency band area, and a preset threshold, judging whether the channel level differences of the current frame are in a transient state or a non-transient state, and obtaining a judgment result; and according to the judgment result, performing quantization processing on the channel level differences of the current frame of the multi-channel signal.

Multi-channel signal encoding and decoding method, apparatus, and system

A stereo encoding method and apparatus are provided, so as to reduce distortion caused by delay adjustment. The stereo encoding method includes: extracting a current interchannel delay of a stereo signal and a previous delay adjacent to the current interchannel delay; performing adjustment frame judgment according to characteristics of the current stereo signal when the current delay and the previous delay are different; and performing delay adjustment on the stereo signal by using the current interchannel delay if it is judged that a frame where the current delay occurs is an adjustment frame.

Stereo encoding method and apparatus

A method and an apparatus for processing a signal are provided. The method includes: obtaining an energy average value of each sub-band for a current frame frequency-domain signal; obtaining a current frame modification coefficient of each sub-band for the current frame frequency-domain signal according to a spectral envelope and the energy average value of each sub-band; obtaining a weighted modification coefficient of each sub-band for the current frame frequency-domain signal by using the current frame modification coefficient and a relevant frame modification coefficient; and modifying the spectral envelope of each sub-band for the current frame frequency-domain signal by using the weighted modification coefficient.

Method and apparatus for processing signal

The present invention relates to information processing technologies and discloses an encoding and decoding method and device to solve the poor decoding quality problem. The technical solution of the present invention includes: encoding each sample of an input signal to generate an encoded signal of a core layer; comparing residuals of all or a part of the samples of the input signal with encoding thresholds, where the residuals are generated by core layer encoding, and performing encoding according to comparison results to generate an encoded signal of an enhancement layer; and writing the encoded signal of the core layer and the encoded signal of the enhancement layer into a bitstream to generate an encoded signal of the input signal.

Encoding and decoding method and device

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