Abstract:
Disclosed are encoding and decoding apparatuses and methods based on variable sub-band analysis. The encoding method based on variable sub-band analysis includes: generating down-mixed signals out of inputted multiple audio objects and encoding the down-mixed signals; transforming the multiple audio objects into a frequency domain to thereby produce frequency-domain signals; dividing a sub-band of the frequency-domain signals into variable sub-bands based on a characteristic of the sub-band and generating variable sub-band information including information on the variable sub- bands; generating parameter information used for recovering the down-mixed signals based on the variable sub-bands; and encoding the variable sub-band information and the parameter information.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an audio object editing apparatus of a multi-object audio coding apparatus. The audio object editing apparatus of the multi-object audio coding apparatus may include an object information extracting unit (210) to receive an object bit stream and to extract object information from the object bit stream, a downmix processing unit (220) to receive a downmix signal, and to control the downmix signal using object editing information and the object information, and a bit stream processing unit (230) to edit the object information according to be object editing information, and to generate a controlled object bit stream based on the edited object information.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving multi-channel audio signals is provided. The apparatus for transmitting multi-channel audio signals includes: a multi-channel audio down-mixer configured to receive a multi-channel audio signal and transform the multi-channel audio signal into a down-mixed audio signal and a supplementary signal; a super frame generator configured to generate a super frame including a plurality of supplementary signal frames; and a packetizer configured to packetize the super frame, wherein the super frame includes supplementary signal frame number information and supplementary signal frame length information of the supplementary signal frames included in the super frame.
Abstract:
A Unified Speech and Audio Codec (USAC) that may process a window sequence based on mode switching is provided. The USAC may perform encoding or decoding by overlapping between frames based on a folding point when mode switching occurs. The USAC may process different window sequences for each situation to perform encoding or decoding, and thereby may improve a coding efficiency.
Abstract:
A multi-object audio encoding and decoding apparatus supporting a post downmix signal may be provided. The multi-object audio encoding apparatus may include: an object information extraction and downmix generation unit to generate object information and a dowmnix signal from input object signals; a parameter determination unit to determine a downmix information parameter using the extracted downmix signal and the post downmix signal; and a bitstream generation unit to combine the object information and the downmix information parameter, and to generate an object bitstream.