Sony Corporation

Sony Cinema Products Corporation

Shinji Miyamori

Masatoshi Ueno

Toshiaki Setogawa

Michael J Kohut

Kenji Takanashi

Jeffrey Edward Taylor

Matayasu Kubo

Yoshiaki Oikawa

Kyoya Tsutsui

Makoto Yamada

Yasuyuki Chaki

Hiraku Sigiki

A light-signal transfer apparatus capable of continuously reproducing signals even if the transfer passage is temporarily intercepted, the apparatus being structured in such a manner that a delay memory delays time-sequential digital data to generate digital data, a multiplexer multiplexes two digital data items to transfer the data items as infrared rays. An error correction circuit corrects the transmitted signals to output multiplexed data and outputs error detection signal indicating a fact that correction cannot be performed because of interception of the transfer passage or the like. A demultiplexer separates transmitted multiplexed data into two digital data items, and a delay memory delays one of the digital data items to make coincide the time bases of the two data items. A data selector selects either of the two digital data items in accordance with information of the error detection signal.

Light-signal transmitting apparatus, light-signal receiving apparatus, light-signal transfer apparatus and light-signal transfer method

The movie film has two tracks of left and right digital audio data recording areas in addition to a frame image information recording area in the form of frames, an analog audio data recording area, and left and right perforations. In these audio data recording areas, the same encoded audio data is recorded. Preferably, the audio data is constituted, using the encoding system called the ATRAC system, by the encoding parameter data, the encoded audio data, and the same parameter as the encoding parameter doubly written. This doubly written parameter is recorded in a manner so that when for example the encoding parameter and the encoded audio data are recorded on the left side audio data recording area for a certain channel, the tracks are switched so that the recording is carried out on the opposite right side audio data recording area.

Movie film having two digital audio data recording areas along its

Signal encoding method and apparatus, signal decoding method and

The present invention relates to a transmission device and a transmission method which can efficiently perform transmission of audio signals with infrared ray and suppress the complication of data processing in modulation and demodulation processes to the minimum level. Audio signals reproduced by a digital audio instrument are transmitted to and recorded into a digital audio recorder through an audio signal transmission device by infrared ray. In the digital audio recorder, the recorded audio signals are immediately reproduced, transmitted and output to a digital audio instrument through an audio transmission device with infrared ray. In the transmitters, a transmission channel clock having the frequency of 5/4-times the data clock thereof from the audio signals, and modulated signals obtained by modulating the audio signals are output at the timing of the transmission channel clock.

Transmission device and transmission method

There is provided a coding method which can effectively prevent a pre-echo and a post-echo from being generated and can perform effective coding to which an psycho-acoustic model is applied. A coding apparatus according to the coding method of the present invention detects the attack and release portions of a waveform signal, and performs gain control to a waveform signal before the attack portion and the waveform signal of the release portion by using a gain control amount adaptively calculated according to the characteristics of the waveform signal. An psycho acoustic model window circuit to an aural model application circuit calculate a masking level based on the psycho-acoustic model from a frequency component obtained by transforming the waveform signal, and a quantization precision determination circuit determines a quantization precision by using the masking level. An window circuit and a transform circuit transform the waveform signal into a plurality of frequency components. The quantization circuit quantizes the plurality of frequency components by using the quantization precision.

Coding method for using multi channel audio signals

An apparatus and method for high efficient signal coding by separating frequency components obtained by converting an input signal into tone property component signals and the other component signals by using a mask level obtained based on the psychoacoustic model and coding these signals respectively to increase signal coding quality and efficiency.

High efficient signal coding method and apparatus therefor

The input signal of one of the plural channels is converted by a converting circuit into frequency components which are separated into tonal components and noise components in a signal comment separating circuit. The tonal components and the signal components are encoded by a tonal component encoding circuit and a noise component encoding circuit, respectively. The amount of bytes allocated to the noise components in the respective channels is determined by a byte allocation circuit based upon time changes of the sum of the scale factors of the respective channels.

Adaptive bit allocation of tonal and noise components

An encoding method and apparatus for encoding multi-channel signals employed in, for example, a stereo system of a video disc player, a video tape recorder, a motion picture film picture system, or a so-called multi-surround acoustic system. Five channels, namely the center (C) channel, left (L) channel, right (R) channel, left surround (SL) channel and the right surround (SR) channel, for example, are handled in common depending upon frequency characteristic of digital audio signal and the targeted playback environment, and encoding is done while the combinations of the channels to be handled in common are altered. High compression may be achieved with the use of pre-existing encoding and decoding units by handling the channels in common without dependency upon the degree of correlation of multi-channel digital data.

Information encoding method and apparatus, information decoding

A method and apparatus for encoding input signals, such as digital data, by so-called high-efficiency encoding, in which pre-echo and post-echo are suppressed. A gain control position decision circuit detects an attack portion and a release portion of an audio signal entering an input terminal. An acoustic model application circuit finds a masking level based on a psychoacoustic model of the input signal. A gain control decision circuit determines the gain control value adaptively selected in accordance with the masking level. A gain control circuit controls the gain of the audio signal entering the input terminal in meeting with the gain control value.

Gain control method for audio encoding device

A low bit rate encoder for compression-encoding digital audio signals of a plurality of channels makes use of both the property of the audio signal and the hearing sense of the human being. The encoder includes: an energy detecting section for detecting energies of the digital audio signals every digital audio signals of the respective channel, a bit allocation amount determining section for determining bit allocation amounts to the respective channels on the basis of the detected result, a compression-encoding section for compression-encoding the digital audio signals on the basis of the bit allocation amounts allocated for every respective channel in accordance with the determined bit allocation amounts, and a multiplexing section for multiplexing the compression-encoded signals every respective channels. The bit allocation amount determining means operates to determine bit allocation amounts so that the relationship between the energy and the bit allocation amount of the digital audio signal represents a non-linear characteristic, such that according as energy of the digital audio signal increases, the bit allocation amount increases as a whole. Thus, redundancy of bit allocation amount in compression-encoding of the multi-channel system is eliminated, and high quality compression encoding/decoding can be realized.

Low bit rate multichannel audio coding methods and apparatus using

A motion picture film capable of reproducing the sound field full of ambience in the reproducing system. The digital sound tracks 5L and 5R, on which digital audio data have been recorded, are recorded so that temporally same digital audio signals are recorded with a spatial shift by a preset distance along the film running direction.

Digital sound recording on motion picture film

A high-efficiency encoding method and apparatus assuring a higher data compression ratio than with known encoding method and apparatus. The multi-channel signals including bandwidth-limited signals of at least one channel are encoded by the same encoding technique by an encoding unit. The bandwidth-limited signals of at least one channel, resulting from encoding by the encoding unit, are re-encoded by a re-encoding unit for eliminating the redundant information produced by the bandwidth limitation.

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Shinji Miyamori