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

Voiceage Corporation

Dolby International Ab

Julien Robilliard

Lars Villemoes

Heiko Purnhagen

Johannes Hilpert

Matthias Neusinger

Markus Multrus

Guillaume Fuchs

Nikolaus Rettelbach

Jérémie Lecomte

Frederik Nagel

Stefan Bayer

Sascha Disch

Christian Helmrich

Bernd Edler

Achim Kuntz

Jan Plogsties

Andreas Hoelzer

Sascha Dick

Simone Fueg

Bernhard Grill

Ralf Geiger

Max Neuendorf

Redwan Salami

Philippe Gournay

Konstantin Schmidt

Pontus Carlsson

Stephan Wilde

Simone Neukam

Vignesh Subbaraman

Arne Borsum

Andreas Hölzer

Maria Luis-Valero

Simone FÜG

An apparatus for generating a synthesis audio signal using a patching control signal has a first converter, a spectral domain patch generator, a high frequency reconstruction manipulator and a combiner. The first converter is configured for converting a time portion of an audio signal into a spectral representation. The spectral domain patch generator is configured for performing a plurality of different spectral domain patching algorithms, wherein each patching algorithm generates a modified spectral representation having spectral components in an upper frequency band derived from corresponding spectral components in a core frequency band of the audio signal. The spectral domain patch generator is furthermore configured to select a first spectral domain patching algorithm from the plurality of patching algorithms for a first time portion and a second spectral domain patching algorithm from the plurality of patching algorithm for a second different time portion in accordance with the patching control signal to obtain the modified spectral representation.

Apparatus and method for generating a synthesis audio signal and for encoding an audio signal

An apparatus for generating a synthesis audio signal using a patching control signal has a first converter, a spectral domain patch generator, a high frequency reconstruction manipulator and a combiner. The first converter is configured for convert- ing a time portion of an audio signal into a spectral represen- tation. The spectral domain patch generator is configured for performing a plurality of different spectral domain patching algorithms, wherein each patching algorithm generates a modified spectral representation having spectral components in an upper frequency band derived from corresponding spec- tral components in a core frequency band of the audio signal. The spectral domain patch generator is furthermore config- ured to select a first spectral domain patching algorithm from the plurality of patching algorithms for a first time portion and a second spectral domain patching algorithm from the plural- ity of patching algorithm for a second different time portion in accordance with the patching control signal to obtain the modified spectral representation.

An apparatus for generating loudspeaker signals includes an object metadata processor configured to receive metadata, to calculate a second position of the audio object depending on the first position of the audio object and on a size of a screen if the audio object is indicated in the metadata as being screen-related, to feed the first position of the audio object as the position information into the object renderer if the audio object is indicated in the metadata as being not screen-related, and to feed the second position of the audio object as the position information into the object renderer if the audio object is indicated in the metadata as being screen-related. The apparatus further includes an object renderer configured to receive an audio object and to generate the loudspeaker signals depending on the audio object and on position information.

Apparatus and method for screen related audio object remapping

An apparatus for upmixing a downmix audio signal describing one or more downmix audio channels into an upmixed audio signal describing a plurality of upmixed audio channels includes an upmixer and a parameter determinator. The upmixer is configured to apply temporally variable upmix parameters to upmix the downmix audio signal in order to obtain the upmixed audio signal, wherein the temporally variable upmix parameters include temporally variable smoothened phase values. The parameter determinator is configured to obtain one or more temporally smoothened upmix parameters for usage by the upmixer on the basis of a quantized upmix parameter input information. The parameter determinator is configured to combine a scaled version of a previous smoothened phase value with a scaled version of an input phase information using a phase change limitation algorithm, to determine a current smoothened phase value on the basis of the previous smoothened phase value and the phase input information.

Apparatus, method and computer program for upmixing a downmix audio signal using a phase value smoothing

An encoder/decoder is based on a combination of two audio or video channels to obtain a first combination signal as a mid-signal and a residual signal derivable using a predicted side signal derived from the mid-signal. A decoder uses the prediction residual signal, the first combination signal, a prediction direction indicator and prediction information to derive decoded first channel and second channel signals. A real-to-imaginary transform can be applied for estimating the imaginary part of the spectrum of the first combination signal. The prediction signal used in the derivation of the prediction residual signal, the real-valued first combination signal is multiplied by a real portion of the complex prediction information and the estimated imaginary part of the first combination signal is multiplied by an imaginary portion of the complex prediction information.

Audio or video encoder, audio or video decoder and related methods for processing multi-channel audio or video signals using a variable prediction direction

Audio or video encoder, audio or video decoder and related methods for processing multichannel audio or video signals using a variable prediction direction

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