- Patent Title: Encoding device and method, decoding device and method, and program
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Application No.: US15684340Application Date: 2017-08-23
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Publication No.: US10236015B2Publication Date: 2019-03-19
- Inventor: Yuki Yamamoto , Toru Chinen
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Priority: JP2010-232106 20101015
- Main IPC: G10L21/0388
- IPC: G10L21/0388 ; G10L25/21 ; G10L25/18 ; G10L19/008 ; G10L19/02

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an encoding device and method, and a decoding device and method, and a program which enable music signals to be played with higher sound quality by expanding a frequency band.A band pass filter divides an input signal into multiple subband signals, a feature amount calculating circuit calculates feature amount using at least any one of the divided multiple subband signals and the input signal, a high-frequency subband power estimating circuit calculates an estimated value of high-frequency subband power based on the calculated feature amount, and a high-frequency signal generating circuit generates a high-frequency signal component based on the multiple subband signals divided by the band pass filter and the estimated value of the high-frequency subband power calculated by the high-frequency subband power estimating circuit. A frequency band expanding device expands the frequency band of the input signal using the high-frequency signal component generated by the high-frequency signal generating circuit. The present invention may be applied to a frequency band expanding device, encoding device, decoding device, and so forth, for example.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170352365A1 ENCODING DEVICE AND METHOD, DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2017-12-07
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