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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2019
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Seung Kwon Beack, Seoul, KR;
Tae Jin Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Jong Mo Sung, Daejeon, KR;
Kyeong Ok Kang, Daejeon, KR;
Jeong Il Seo, Daejeon, KR;
Dae Young Jang, Daejeon, KR;
Yong Ju Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Jin Woong Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
An audio encoding apparatus and method that encodes hybrid contents including an object sound, a background sound, and metadata, and an audio decoding apparatus and method that decodes the encoded hybrid contents are provided. The audio encoding apparatus may include a mixing unit to generate an intermediate channel signal by mixing a background sound and an object sound, a matrix information encoding unit to encode matrix information used for the mixing, an audio encoding unit to encode the intermediate channel signal, and a metadata encoding unit to encode metadata including control information of the object sound.