Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

The Korea Development Bank

Etri

Keun Woo Choi

Kyeong Ok Kang

Seung Kwon Beack

Jeong Il Seo

Jin Woong Kim

Yong Ju Lee

Tae Jin Lee

Tae Jin Park

Dae Young Jang

Jong Mo Sung

Jae Hyoun Yoo

Jae-hyoun Yoo

An encoding/decoding apparatus and method for controlling a channel signal is disclosed, wherein the encoding apparatus may include an encoder to encode an object signal, a channel signal, and rendering information for the channel signal, and a bit stream generator to generate, as a bit stream, the encoded object signal, the encoded channel signal, and the encoded rendering information for the channel signal.

Encoding/decoding apparatus for processing channel signal and method

Disclosed is a binaural rendering method and apparatus for decoding a multichannel audio signal. The binaural rendering method may include: extracting an early reflection component and a late reverberation component from a binaural filter; generating a stereo audio signal by performing binaural rendering of a multichannel audio signal base on the early reflection component; and applying the late reverberation component to the generated stereo audio signal.

Binaural rendering method and apparatus for decoding multi channel audio

Encoding/decoding apparatus for processing channel signal and method therefor

An audio encoding apparatus to encode an audio signal using lossless coding or lossy coding and an audio decoding apparatus to decode an encoded audio signal are disclosed. An audio encoding apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment may include an input signal type determination unit to determine a type of an input signal based on characteristics of the input signal, a residual signal generation unit to generate a residual signal based on an output signal from the input signal type determination unit, and a coding unit to perform lossless coding or lossy coding using the residual signal.

Audio encoding apparatus and method, and audio decoding apparatus and method

An apparatus and method for generating a wave field synthesis (WFS) signal in consideration of a height of a speaker are disclosed. The WFS signal generation apparatus may include a waveform propagation distance determination unit to determine a propagation distance of a waveform propagate from a sound source based on a height of a speaker, and a WFS signal generation unit to generate a WFS signal corresponding to the speaker using the propagation distance of the waveform.

Apparatus and method for generating wave field synthesis signals

An apparatus and method for transmitting a plurality of audio objects using a multichannel encoder and a multichannel decoder are provided. The audio object encoder includes a multichannel encoder determination unit to determine a multichannel encoder to be used for encoding of a plurality of audio objects according to the number of the audio objects, an encoding unit to generate an encoded signal by encoding the plurality of audio objects using the determined multichannel encoder, and a multichannel audio object signal generation unit to generating a multichannel audio object signal, by multiplexing sound image localization information of the plurality of audio objects along with the encoded signal.

Apparatus and method for transmitting audio object

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Keun Woo Choi