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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2005
Markus Van Pinxteren, Munich, DE;
Michael Saupe, Ilmenau, DE;
Markus Cremer, Ilmenau, DE;
Abstract
For changing a segmentation of an audio piece after a segment class assignment, at first a short segment is selected, which has a length shorter than a predetermined minimum length. This short segment is preferably merged with the corresponding successor segment or predecessor segment using information on a segment class membership of the short segment itself, but also the successor segment or the predecessor segment, in order to obtain a changed segmentation of the audio signal. With this, a not over-segmented segment representation of the audio signal is obtained, which further includes all audio information, i.e. is not a representation of the audio piece with holes.