IP Library Granted Patent US 10,469,969
Granted Patent B2
US 10,469,969 · App. 15/022,923 · Granted Nov 5, 2019

Method and apparatus for processing multimedia signals

Inventors: Hyunoh Oh (Gwacheon-si, KR); Taegyu Lee (Seongnam-si, KR)
Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
H04S5/005G10L19/008G10L19/0204G10L25/48H03H17/0229H03H17/0248H03H17/0266H03H17/0272H03H21/0012H04R5/04H04S3/00H04S3/002H04S3/008H04S3/02H04S7/30H04S2400/01H04S2400/03H04S2420/03H04S2420/07H04S2420/11
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Patent No.
US 10,469,969
App. No.
15/022,923
Granted
Nov 5, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing a signal, which are used for effectively reproducing a multimedia signal, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for processing a signal, which are used for implementing filtering for multimedia signal having a plurality of subbands with a low calculation amount. To this end, provided are a method for processing a multimedia signal including: receiving a multimedia signal having a plurality of subbands; receiving at least one proto-type filter coefficients for filtering each subband signal of the multimedia signal; converting the proto-type filter coefficients into a plurality of subband filter coefficients; truncating each subband filter coefficients based on filter order information obtained by at least partially using characteristic information extracted from the corresponding subband filter coefficients, the length of at least one truncated subband filter coefficients being different from the length of truncated subband filter coefficients of another subband; and filtering the multimedia signal by using the truncated subband filter coefficients corresponding to each subband signal and an apparatus for processing a multimedia signal using the same.

Claims (17)

1. A method for processing a multimedia signal, the method comprising:

receiving a multimedia signal having a plurality of subbands;

receiving one or more proto-type filter coefficients for filtering the multimedia signal;

converting the proto-type filter coefficients into a set of subband filter coefficients for each subband;

individually truncating the set of subband filter coefficients for each subband based on a filter order obtained by at least partially using energy decay time information determined for each subband from the set of subband filter coefficients, wherein the filter order determines a truncation length of the set of subband filter coefficients, and the filter order is determined to be variable in a frequency domain according to the energy decay time information of each subband; and

filtering the multimedia signal by using the truncated set of subband filter coefficients corresponding to each subband signal.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the filter order has a value of a multiple of the power of 2.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multimedia signal includes multi-channel or multi-object signals, and

the proto-type filter coefficients are BRIR filter coefficients of a time domain.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the filter order has a single value for each subband.

5. An apparatus for processing a multimedia signal having a plurality of subbands, the apparatus comprising:

a parameterization unit configured to receive one or more proto-type filter coefficients for filtering the multimedia signal, convert the proto-type filter coefficients into a set of subband filter coefficients for each subband, and individually truncate the set of subband filter coefficients for each subband based on a filter order obtained by at least partially using energy decay time information determined for each subband from the set of subband filter coefficients, wherein the filter order determines a truncation length of the set of subband filter coefficients, and the filter order is determined to be variable in a frequency domain according to the energy decay time information of each subband; and

a rendering unit configured to receive the multimedia signal and filter the multimedia signal by using the truncated set of subband filter coefficients corresponding to each subband signal.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the filter order has a value of a multiple of the power of 2.

7. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the multimedia signal includes multi-channel or multi-object signals, and

the proto-type filter coefficients are BRIR filter coefficients of a time domain.

8. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the filter order has a single value for each subband.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 22, 2021
From: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
To: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.; GCOA CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 056610/0624 →
TERMINATION AGREEMENT OF EXCLUSIVE LICENSE Recorded Jul 16, 2020
From: BINAURAL AUDIO TECHNOLOGY INC.
To: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
Reel/Frame 053235/0462 →
LICENSE Recorded Feb 12, 2018
From: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
To: BINAURAL AUDIO TECHNOLOGY INC.
Reel/Frame 044905/0601 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 25, 2016
From: OH, HYUNOH; LEE, TAEGYU
To: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
Reel/Frame 038363/0242 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2013-0125936 · Oct 22, 2013 · national
Continuity (3)
Provisional Application 61894442 · Oct 23, 2013
Provisional Application 61878638 · Sep 17, 2013
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