IP Library Granted Patent US 8,255,210
Granted Patent B2
US 8,255,210 · App. 11/569,377 · Granted Aug 28, 2012

Audio/music decoding device and method utilizing a frame erasure concealment utilizing multiple encoded information of frames adjacent to the lost frame

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Patent No.
US 8,255,210
App. No.
11/569,377
Granted
Aug 28, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

An audio/music decoding device capable of improving quality of a decoded signal generated by conceal processing of a frame erase using a scalable encoding method. The audio/music decoding device includes a frame loss detector that determines whether encoded information is normally received and generates frame loss information indicating the result of the determination. According to the frame loss information, a first decoder performs decoding by using at least one of the following encoded information: the first encoded information on the frame immediately before, the first encoded information on the current frame, and the second encoded information on the current frame. According to the frame loss information, a second decoder performs decoding by using at least one of the following encoded information: the first encoded information on the frame immediately before, the first encoded information on the current frame, the second encoded information on the frame immediately before, and the second encoded information on the current frame. An adder adds the decoded signal outputted from the first decoder and the decoded signal outputted from the second decoder.

Claims (16)

1. A speech/sound decoding apparatus that generates decoded signals by decoding encoded information configured in a plurality of layers including a first layer and a second layer, the speech/sound decoding apparatus comprising:

a frame loss detector that determines whether or not encoded information related to the first layer and encoded information related to the second layer in a received frame are each correct, and generates frame loss information comprising a result of the determination;

a first decoder that determines encoded information to use for decoding of the first layer, according to the frame loss information, from one of first encoded information received in a present frame and first encoded information received in a previous frame, and one of second encoded information received in the present frame and second encoded information received in the previous frame, and generates a first decoded signal by performing decoding using the determined encoded information, determined by the first decoder; and

a second decoder that determines encoded information to use for decoding of the second layer, according to the frame loss information, from one of the first encoded information received in the present frame and the first encoded information received in the previous frame, and one of the second encoded information received in the present frame and the second encoded information received in the previous frame, and generates a second decoded signal by performing decoding using the determined encoded information, determined by the second decoder,

wherein the first decoder and the second decoder perform decoding using encoded information specified by one of a designated combination of a plurality of specific combinations of encoded information, which is based on a specific value of the frame loss information, the plurality of specific combinations of encoded information including: a first combination of first encoded information in the current frame and second encoded information in the current frame, a second combination of first encoded information in the preceding frame and second encoded information of the current frame, a third combination of first encoded information in the current frame and second encoded information in the preceding frame, and a fourth combination of the first encoded information in the preceding frame and second encoded information in the preceding frame,

wherein the first encoded information comprises LSP, adaptive codebook excitation lag, fixed codebook excitation vector, adaptive and fixed excitation gains, and the second encoded information consists of delta adaptive LSP, delta adaptive codebook excitation lag, fixed codebook excitation vector, and adaptive and fixed excitation gains.

2. The speech/sound decoding apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, when the first encoded information is not received correctly in the present frame, the first decoder performs decoding using only the first encoded information received in the previous frame, or the first encoded information received in the previous frame and the correctly received second encoded information in the present frame, based on the value of the frame loss information.

3. The speech/sound decoding apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, when a value of the frame loss information shows that the first encoded information is not received correctly in the present frame and the second encoded information is received correctly in the present frame, the first decoder receives as input the correctly received second encoded information from the second decoder and performs decoding using the first encoded information received in the previous frame and the correctly received second encoded information in the present frame, and the second decoder receives the first encoded information received in the previous frame from the first decoder, and performs decoding using the first encoded information received in the previous frame and the correctly received second encoded information in the present frame.

4. A base station apparatus, comprising the speech/sound decoding apparatus of claim 1 .

5. A communication terminal apparatus, comprising the speech/sound decoding apparatus of claim 1 .

6. A speech/sound decoding method of generating decoded signals by decoding encoded information configured in a plurality of layers including a first layer and a second layer, the speech/sound decoding method comprising:

determining, by a frame loss detector, whether or not encoded information related to the first layer and encoded information related to the second layer in a received frame are each correct, and generating frame loss information comprising a result of the determination;

determining, by a first decoder, encoded information to use for decoding of the first layer, according to the frame loss information, from one of first encoded information received in a present frame and first encoded information received in a previous frame, and one of the second encoded information received in the present frame and the second encoded information received in the previous frame, and generating a first decoded signal by performing decoding using the determined encoded information, determined by the first decoder;

and determining, by a second decoder, encoded information to use for decoding of the second layer, according to the frame loss information, from one of the first encoded information received in the present frame and the first encoded information received in the previous frame, and one of second encoded information received in the present frame and second encoded information received in the previous frame, and generating a second decoded signal by performing decoding using the determined encoded information, determined by the second decoder,

wherein, in determining encoded information to use for decoding of the first layer and for decoding of the second layer, decoding is performed using encoded information specified by one of a designated combination of a plurality of specific combinations of encoded information, which is based on a specific value of the frame loss information, the plurality of specific combinations of encoded information including: a first combination of first encoded information in the current frame and second encoded information in the current frame, a second combination of first encoded information in the preceding frame and second encoded information of the current frame, a third combination of first encoded information in the current frame and second encoded information in the preceding frame, and a fourth combination of the first encoded information in the preceding frame and second encoded information in the preceding frame,

wherein the first encoded information comprises LSP, adaptive codebook excitation lag, fixed codebook excitation vector, adaptive and fixed excitation gains, and the second encoded information consists of delta adaptive LSP, delta adaptive codebook excitation lag, fixed codebook excitation vector, and adaptive and fixed excitation gains.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 2, 2017
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
To: III HOLDINGS 12, LLC
Reel/Frame 042386/0779 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 27, 2014
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 033033/0163 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 14, 2008
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021835/0446 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 6, 2007
From: SATO, KAORU; MORII, TOSHIYUKI; YAMANASHI, TOMOFUMI
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 018856/0338 →