Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.

Sony Corporation

Gracenote, Inc.

Christian Uhle

Oliver Hellmuth

Peter Prokein

Juergen Herre

Sascha Disch

Markus Kurt Cremer

Michael Kratschmer

Bernhard Neugebauer

Michael Meier

Patrick Gampp

Julia Havenstein

Jürgen Herre

Fabian Kuech

Sebastian Scharrer

Antonios Karampourniotis

Fabian Küch

Emanuel Habets

Falko Ridderbusch

Markus Cremer

Stefan Finauer

Arne Borsum

Michael Kratz

Timothy Leonard

Jan Rohden

Harald Popp

Andreas Walther

Stephan Schreiner

Christian Stoecklmeier

Christian Dittmar

Daniel Richter

Paul Klose

Matthias Gruhne

André Luvizotto

Andre Luvizotto

Christian Stocklmeier

Fabian Kuch

Jurgen Herre

Bernhard Grill

Bernd Edler

Stefan Geyersberger

Konstantin Schmidt

Harald Fuchs

Jouni Paulus

Thorsten Kastner

Matthias Lang

Martin Schneider

Felix Fleischmann

Ulrik Heise

Stefan Varga

Andreas Walter

Christiaan Janssen

Oliver Moser

Marc Hoepfel

Stefan Wetzel

Marc Höpfel

Christian STÖCKLMEIER

Marc Hopfel

Matteo Torcoli

Thomas Mayenfels

Christian Simon

Andreas Turnwald

Alessandro Travaglini

Lukas Lamprecht

An apparatus for generating a plurality of loudspeaker signals from two or more audio source signals is provided. Each of the two or more audio source signals shall be reproduced in one or more of two or more sound zones, and at least one of the two or more audio source signals shall not be reproduced in at least one of the two more sound zones. An audio preprocessor is configured to modify each initial audio signal of the two or more initial audio signals depending on a signal power or a loudness of another initial audio signal of the two or more initial audio signals. A filter is configured to generate the plurality of loudspeaker signals depending on in which of the two or more sound zones the two or more audio source signals shall be reproduced and depending on in which of the two or more sound zones the two or more audio source signals shall not be reproduced.

Apparatus and method for providing individual sound zones

An audio processor for processing an audio signal includes: an audio signal modifier for modifying the audio signal in response to a user input; a loudness controller for determining a loudness compensation gain based on a reference loudness or a reference gain and a modified loudness or a modified gain, where the modified loudness or the modified gain depends on the user input; and a loudness manipulator for manipulating a loudness of a signal using the loudness compensation gain.

Loudness control for user interactivity in audio coding systems

An apparatus for processing an audio signal includes a separator for separating a first portion of a spectrum of the audio signal from a second portion of the spectrum of the audio signal, the first portion having a first signal characteristic and the second portion having a second signal characteristic. The apparatus includes a first bandwidth extender for extending a bandwidth of the first portion using first parameters associated with the first signal characteristic, for obtaining a first extended portion and includes a second bandwidth extender for extending a bandwidth of the second portion using second parameters associated with the second signal characteristic, for obtaining a second extended portion. The apparatus includes a combiner configured for using the first extended portion and the second extended portion for obtaining an extended combined audio signal.

Apparatus and methods for processing an audio signal

An apparatus for determining a predetermined characteristic related to an artificial bandwidth limitation processing of an audio signal has a slope evaluator configured for evaluating a slope of a spectrum of the audio signal to obtain a slope evaluation result. The apparatus has a frequency evaluator configured for evaluating a cut-off frequency of the spectrum of the audio signal to obtain a frequency evaluation result, and has a processor for providing an information indicating that the audio signal has the predetermined characteristic dependent on an evaluation of the slope evaluation result and an evaluation of the frequency evaluation result.

Apparatus and method for determining a predetermined characteristic related to an artificial bandwidth limitation processing of an audio signal

The invention provides a concept for combined dynamic range compression and guided clipping prevention for audio devices. An audio decoder for decoding an audio bitstream and a metadata bitstream related to the audio bitstream according to the concept includes an audio processing chain including a plurality of adjustment stages including a dynamic range control stage for adjusting a dynamic range of the audio output signal and a guided clipping prevention stage for preventing clipping of the audio output signal; and a metadata decoder configured to receive the metadata bitstream and to extract dynamic range control gain sequences and guided clipping prevention gain sequences from the metadata bitstream, at least a part of the dynamic range control gain sequences being supplied to the dynamic range control stage, and at least a part of the guided clipping prevention gain sequences being supplied to the guided clipping prevention stage.

Concept for combined dynamic range compression and guided clipping prevention for audio devices

An apparatus for processing a multichannel audio signal has a plurality of channel signals. The apparatus performs a time scale modulation of the multichannel audio signal and has a phase adaptor and a separator. The phase adaptor provides a processed signal by modifying a phase of a signal based on a combination of the channel signals. The separator provides separated signals based on the processed signal. A corresponding method is provided.

Apparatus and method for processing a multichannel audio signal

What is described is an apparatus for post-processing an audio signal, having: a time-spectrum-converter for converting the audio signal into a spectral representation having a sequence of spectral frames; a prediction analyzer for calculating prediction filter data for a prediction over frequency within a spectral frame; a shaping filter controlled by the prediction filter data for shaping the spectral frame to enhance a transient portion within the spectral frame; and a spectrum-time-converter for converting a sequence of spectral frames having a shaped spectral frame into a time domain.

Apparatus and method for post-processing an audio signal using prediction based shaping

An apparatus for generating a bandwidth enhanced audio signal from an input audio signal having an input audio signal frequency range includes: a raw signal generator configured for generating a raw signal having an enhancement frequency range, wherein the enhancement frequency range is not included in the input audio signal frequency range; a neural network processor configured for generating a parametric representation for the enhancement frequency range using the input audio frequency range of the input audio signal and a trained neural network; and a raw signal processor for processing the raw signal using the parametric representation for the enhancement frequency range to obtain a processed raw signal having frequency components in the enhancement frequency range, wherein the processed raw signal or the processed raw signal and the input audio signal frequency range of the input audio signal represent the bandwidth enhanced audio signal.

Apparatus, method or computer program for generating a bandwidth-enhanced audio signal using a neural network processor

An audio signal processor for providing ambient signal channels on the basis of an input audio signal, is configured to extract an ambient signal on the basis of the input audio signal. The signal processor is configured to distribute the ambient signal to a plurality of ambient signal channels in dependence on positions or directions of sound sources within the input audio signal, wherein a number of ambient signal channels is larger than a number of channels of the input audio signal.

Audio signal processor, system and methods distributing an ambient signal to a plurality of ambient signal channels

Apparatus for post-processing an audio signal, including: a converter for converting the audio signal into a time-frequency representation; a transient location estimator for estimating a location in time of a transient portion using the audio signal or the time-frequency representation; and a signal manipulator for manipulating the time-frequency representation, wherein the signal manipulator is configured to reduce or eliminate a pre-echo in the time-frequency representation at a location in time before the transient location or to perform a shaping of the time-frequency representation at the transient location to amplify an attack of the transient portion.

Apparatus for post-processing an audio signal using a transient location detection

An audio encoder device includes an audio encoder configured for producing an encoded audio bitstream from an audio signal having consecutive audio frames; a dynamic range control encoder configured for producing an encoded dynamic range control bitstream fromanadynamic range control sequence corresponding to the audio signal and having consecutive dynamic range control frames, wherein each dynamic range control frame of the dynamic range control frames has one or more nodes, wherein each node of the one or more nodes has gain information for the audio signal and time information indicating to which point in time the gain information corresponds.

Audio encoder device and an audio decoder device having efficient gain coding in dynamic range control

An apparatus for determining a predetermined characteristic related to a spectral enhancement processing of an audio signal includes a deriver configured for obtaining a spectrum of the audio signal and for deriving a local maximum signal from the spectrum. The apparatus includes a determiner configured for determining a similarity between segments of the local maximum signal and includes a processor for providing an information indicating that the audio signal includes the predetermined characteristic dependent on an evaluation of the similarity.

Apparatus and method for determining a predetermined characteristic related to a spectral enhancement processing of an audio signal

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