AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE, AUDIO DECODING DEVICE, AUDIO ENCODING SYSTEM, AUDIO ENCODING METHOD, AND AUDIO DECODING METHOD
Provided is an audio encoding device for modeling a spectrum waveform and accurately restoring the spectrum waveform. The audio encoding device includes: an FFT unit ( 104 ) for subjecting a spectrum amplitude of a drive sound source signal to an FFT process to obtain an FFT transform coefficient; a second spectrum amplitude calculation unit ( 105 ) for calculating a second spectrum amplitude of the FFT transform coefficient; a peak point position identification unit ( 106 ) for identifying the positions of the most significant N peaks of the second spectrum amplitude; a coefficient selection unit ( 107 ) for selecting FFT transform coefficients corresponding to the identified positions; and a quantization unit ( 108 ) for quantizing the selected FFT transform coefficients.
1 . A speech coding apparatus comprising:
a transform section that performs a frequency domain transform of a first input signal and constructs a frequency domain signal;
a first calculation section that calculates a first spectral amplitude of the frequency domain signal;
a second calculation section that performs a frequency domain transform of the first spectral amplitude and calculates a second spectral amplitude;
a specifying section that specifies positions of a highest plurality of peaks in the second spectral amplitude;
a selection section that selects transformed coefficients of the second spectral amplitude corresponding to the specified positions of peaks; and
a quantization section that quantizes the selected transformed coefficients.
2 . The speech coding apparatus according to claim 1 , where the first spectral amplitude is a logarithmic value.
3 . The speech coding apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first spectral amplitude is an absolute value.
4 . The speech coding apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the quantization section performs the quantization in one of scalar quantization and vector quantization.
5 . A speech decoding apparatus comprising:
an inverse quantization section that acquires a highest plurality of quantized transformed coefficients from coefficients obtained by performing a frequency domain transform of an input signal twice, and performs an inverse quantization of the acquired transformed coefficients;
a spectral coefficient construction section that arranges the transformed coefficients in the frequency domain and constructs spectral coefficients; and
an inverse transform section that reconstructs a spectral amplitude estimate by performing an inverse frequency transform of the spectral coefficients, and acquires a linear value of the spectral amplitude estimate.
6 . The speech decoding apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the spectral coefficient construction section maps the transformed coefficients in positions of a highest plurality of transformed coefficients selected from the transformed coefficients obtained by performing the frequency domain transform of the input signal twice and maps zeroes in the rest of positions.
7 . A speech coding system comprising:
a speech coding apparatus comprising:
a transform section that performs a frequency domain transform of a first input signal and constructs a frequency domain signal;
a first calculation section that calculates a first spectral amplitude of the frequency domain signal;
a second calculation section that performs a frequency domain transform of the first spectral amplitude and calculates a second spectral amplitude;
a specifying section that specifies positions of a highest plurality of peaks in the second spectral amplitude;
a selection section that selects transformed coefficients of the second spectral amplitude corresponding to the specified positions of peaks; and
a quantization section that quantizes the selected transformed coefficients; and
a speech decoding apparatus comprising:
an inverse quantization section that acquires a highest plurality of quantized transformed coefficients from coefficients obtained by performing a frequency domain transform of an input signal twice, and performs an inverse quantization of the acquired transformed coefficients;
a spectral coefficient construction section that arranges the transformed coefficients in the frequency domain and constructs spectral coefficients; and
an inverse transform section that reconstructs a spectral amplitude estimate by performing an inverse frequency transform of the spectral coefficients, and acquires a linear value of the spectral amplitude estimate.
8 . A speech coding method comprising:
a transform step of performing a frequency domain transform of a first input signal and constructing a frequency domain signal;
a first calculation step of calculating a first spectral amplitude of the frequency domain signal;
a second calculation step of performing a frequency domain transform of the first spectral amplitude and calculating a second spectral amplitude;
a specifying step of specifying positions of a highest plurality of peaks in the second spectral amplitude;
a selection step of selecting transformed coefficients of the second spectral amplitude corresponding to the specified positions of peaks; and
a quantization step of quantizing the selected transformed coefficients.
9 . A speech decoding method comprising:
an inverse quantization step of acquiring a highest plurality of quantized transformed coefficients from coefficients obtained by performing a frequency domain transform of an input signal twice, and performing an inverse quantization of the acquired transformed coefficients;
a spectral coefficient construction step of arranging the transformed coefficients in the frequency domain and constructing spectral coefficients; and
an inverse transform step of reconstructing a spectral amplitude estimate by performing an inverse frequency transform of the spectral coefficients, and acquiring a linear value of the spectral amplitude estimate.