Abstract:
A system for sharing wavelet domain components among encoded signals receives a set of signals decomposed and encoded according to a wavelet transform. The decomposed and encoded signals each include a set of wavelet coefficients at each level of the decomposition of the encoded signal. Using a vector quantization technique, the system identifies one or more sets of wavelet coefficients that are sharable among two or more of the decomposed and encoded signals at a particular level of decomposition. The system then stores the sets of wavelet coefficients of the decomposed and encoded signals. Each identified sharable set of wavelet coefficients at a particular level of decomposition is stored only once and shared by two or more of the decomposed and encoded signals.
Abstract:
A new method is proposed that produces stereophonic sound image out of monaural signal within a selected frequency regions. The system employs a strictly complementary (SC) linear phase FIR filter pair that separates input signal into different frequency regions. A pair of comb filters is applied to one of the filter's output. This implementation allows a certain frequency range to be relatively localized at center while the other sounds are perceived in a wider space.
Abstract:
Audio loudspeaker and headphone virtualizers and cross-talk cancellers and methods use separate virtual speaker locations for different Bark frequency bands and a single reverberation filter for multi-channel virtualizer inputs.
Abstract:
This invention locally controls the pitch of speech and audio signals. The invention is based on a seamless time scale modification (S-TSM) scheme connected to a synchronized sampling rate converter that switches between different time scale factors in a seamless manner and controls pitch during playback in a nearly continuous way.
Abstract:
A method for creating a stereophonic sound image out of a monaural signal combines two sub-methods. Comb filters decorrelate the left and right channel signals. Intra-aural difference cues, such as an Intra-Aural Time Difference (ITD) and an Intra-aural Intensity Difference (IID) separated channels. Strict complementary (SC) linear phase FIR filters divide the incoming monaural signal into three frequency band separation. The comb filters and ITD/IID applied to the low and high frequency bands create a simulated stereo sound image for the instruments other than human voice. Listening tests indicate that this invention provides a wider stereo sound image than previous methods, while retaining human voice centralization. Since the comb filter solution and ITD/IID solution can share the same filter bank, the computational cost of this method is almost the same as the previous method.
Abstract:
A method for creating a stereophonic sound image out of a monaural signal combines two sub-methods. Comb filters decorrelate the left and right channel signals. Intra-aural difference cues, such as an Intra-Aural Time Difference (ITD) and an Intra-aural Intensity Difference (IID) separated channels. Strict complementary (SC) linear phase FIR filters divide the incoming monaural signal into three frequency band separation. The comb filters and ITD/IID applied to the low and high frequency bands create a simulated stereo sound image for the instruments other than human voice. Listening tests indicate that this invention provides a wider stereo sound image than previous methods, while retaining human voice centralization. Since the comb filter solution and ITD/IID solution can share the same filter bank, the computational cost of this method is almost the same as the previous method.
Abstract:
Audio loudspeaker and headphone virtualizers and cross-talk cancellers and methods use separate virtual speaker locations for different Bark frequency bands and a single reverberation filter for multi-channel virtualizer inputs.
Abstract:
This invention locally controls the pitch of speech and audio signals. The invention is based on a seamless time scale modification (S-TSM) scheme connected to a synchronized sampling rate converter that switches between different time scale factors in a seamless manner and controls pitch during playback in a nearly continuous way.
Abstract:
A method of converting single channel audio (mono) signals to two channel audio (stereo) signals using simple filters and an Intra-aural Time Difference (ITD) is presented. This method does not distort the spectral content of the original signal very much, and has low computation requirements. A variation is proposed which also uses Intra-aural Intensity Difference (IID).
Abstract:
Audio loudspeaker and headphone virtualizers and cross-talk cancellers and methods use separate virtual speaker locations for different Bark frequency bands and a single reverberation filter for multi-channel virtualizer inputs.