Abstract:
A particular method includes determining, based on spectral information corresponding to an audio signal that includes a low-band portion and a high-band portion, that the audio signal includes a component corresponding to an artifact-generating condition. The method also includes filtering the high-band portion of the audio signal and generating an encoded signal. Generating the encoded signal includes determining gain information based on a ratio of a first energy corresponding to filtered high-band output to a second energy corresponding to the low-band portion to reduce an audible effect of the artifact-generating condition.
Abstract:
Techniques for efficiently encoding an input signal are described. In one design, a generalized encoder encodes the input signal (e.g., an audio signal) based on at least one detector and multiple encoders. The at least one detector may include a signal activity detector, a noise-like signal detector, a sparseness detector, some other detector, or a combination thereof. The multiple encoders may include a silence encoder, a noise-like signal encoder, a time-domain encoder, a transform-domain encoder, some other encoder, or a combination thereof. The characteristics of the input signal may be determined based on the at least one detector. An encoder may be selected from among the multiple encoders based on the characteristics of the input signal. The input signal may be encoded based on the selected encoder. The input signal may include a sequence of frames, and detection and encoding may be performed for each frame.
Abstract:
A normalization factor for a current frame of a signal may be determined. The normalization factor may depend on an amplitude of the current frame of the signal. The normalization factor may also depend on values of states after one or more operations were performed on a previous frame of a normalized signal. The current frame of the signal may be normalized based on the normalization factor that is determined. The states' normalization factor may be adjusted based on the normalization factor that is determined.
Abstract:
A scheme for coding a set of transform coefficients that represent an audio-frequency range of a signal uses information from a reference frame that describes a previous frame of the signal to determine frequency-domain locations of regions of significant energy in a target frame of the signal.
Abstract:
A multistage shape vector quantizer architecture uses information from a selected first-stage codebook vector to generate a rotation matrix. The rotation matrix is used to rotate the direction of the input vector to support shape quantization of the first-stage quantization error.
Abstract:
Speech encoders and methods of speech encoding are disclosed that encode inactive frames at different rates. Apparatus and methods for processing an encoded speech signal are disclosed that calculate a decoded frame based on a description of a spectral envelope over a first frequency band and the description of a spectral envelope over a second frequency band, in which the description for the first frequency band is based on information from a corresponding encoded frame and the description for the second frequency band is based on information from at least one preceding encoded frame. Calculation of the decoded frame may also be based on a description of temporal information for the second frequency band that is based on information from at least one preceding encoded frame.
Abstract:
A scheme for injecting noise at uncoded elements of a spectrum is controlled according to a measure of a distribution of energy of the original spectrum among the locations of the uncoded elements.
Abstract:
A dynamic bit allocation operation determines a bit allocation for each of a plurality of vectors, based on a corresponding plurality of gain factors, and compares each allocation to a threshold value that is based on a dimensionality of the vector.
Abstract:
A method for including an identifier with a packet associated with a speech signal is described. A signal is received. The signal is partitioned into a plurality of frames. A frame of the signal is encoded into a packet. A determination is made if the packet is encoded as a wideband packet or a narrowband packet. An identifier is packed in the packet based on the determination. The packet is transmitted. At least two illegal values are provided from an N-bit parameter, wherein at least one bit from the N-bit parameter is used to carry information. A number of bits from the N-bit parameter that are used to carry information is equal to log 2 (X), wherein X is the number of illegal values provided from the N-bit parameter.
Abstract:
A particular method includes determining, at a device, a voicing classification of an input signal. The input signal corresponds to an audio signal. The method also includes controlling an amount of an envelope of a representation of the input signal based on the voicing classification. The method further includes modulating a white noise signal based on the controlled amount of the envelope. The method also includes generating a high band excitation signal based on the modulated white noise signal.