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US 8,417,100 · App. 12/232,595 · Granted Apr 9, 2013

Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal

Inventor: Tilman Liebchen (Berlin, DE)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,417,100
App. No.
12/232,595
Granted
Apr 9, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

In one embodiment, the method includes receiving the audio signal having a plurality of random access units. The random access unit includes one or more frames and at least one of the frames is a random access frame. The random access frame is a frame encoded such that previous frames are not necessary to decode the random access frame. The embodiment further includes reading location information from the audio signal. The location information indicates whether random access unit size information is stored or not in the audio signal. If the random access unit size information is stored, the location information further indicates a location where the random access unit size information is stored in the audio signal. Random access unit size information is read according to the location information. The random access unit size information indicates a distance between random access frames in bytes. The random access units are decoded based on the random access size information.

Claims (16)

1. A method of decoding an audio signal, the method comprising:

receiving the audio signal having a plurality of random access units, at least one of the plurality of random access units including one or more frames and at least one of the frames being a random access frame, the random access frame being a frame encoded such that previous frames are not necessary to decode the random access frame;

reading location information from the audio signal, the location information indicating whether random access unit size information is stored or not in the audio signal, if the random access unit size information is stored, the location information further indicating a location where the random access unit size information is stored in the audio signal;

reading random access unit size information according to the location information, the random access unit size information indicating a distance between random access frames in bytes; and

decoding the random access units based on the random access size information, wherein the location information indicates that the random access unit size information is stored either in the configuration information of the audio signal or in the associated random access frame of the audio signal.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the location information is read from configuration information of the audio signal.

3. A method of encoding an audio signal, the method comprising:

adding random access unit size information and location information to the audio signal, the audio signal having a plurality of random access units, at least one of the plurality of random access units including one or more frames and at least one of the frames being a random access frame, the random access frame being a frame encoded such that previous frames are not necessary to decode the random access frame,

wherein the location information indicates whether the random access unit size information is stored or not in the audio signal, if the random access unit size information is stored, the location information further indicates a location where the random access unit size information is stored in the audio signal, wherein the location information indicates that the random access unit size information is stored either in the configuration information of the audio signal or in the associated random access frame of the audio signal.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the location information is added to configuration information of the audio signal.

5. An apparatus for decoding an audio signal, comprising:

a decoder configured to receive the audio signal and read location information and random access unit size information from the audio signal, the audio signal having a plurality of random access units, at least one of the plurality of random access units including one or more frames and at least one of the frames being a random access frame, the random access frame being a frame encoded such that previous frames are not necessary to decode the random access frame, wherein the location information indicates whether the random access unit size information is stored or not in the audio signal, if the random access unit size information is stored, the location information further indicates a location where the random access unit size information is stored in the audio signal; and the decoder further configured to decode the random access units based on the random access size information, wherein the location information indicates that the random access unit size information is stored either in the configuration information of the audio signal or in the associated random access frame of the audio signal.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the decoder configured to read the location information from configuration information of the audio signal.

7. An apparatus for encoding an audio signal, comprising:

an encoder configured to add random access unit size information and location information to the audio signal, the audio signal having a plurality of random access units, at least one of the plurality of random access units including one or more frames and at least one of the frames being a random access frame, the random access frame being a frame encoded such that previous frames are not necessary to decode the random access frame, wherein the location information indicates whether the random access unit size information is stored or not in the audio signal, if the random access unit size information is stored, the location information further indicates a location where the random access unit size information is stored in the audio signal, wherein the location information indicates that the random access unit size information is stored either in the configuration information of the audio signal or in the associated random access frame of the audio signal.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the encoder configured to add the location information to configuration information of the audio signal.

Priority Claims (6)
WO PCT/KR2005/002290 · Jul 16, 2005 · international
WO PCT/KR2005/002291 · Jul 16, 2005 · international
WO PCT/KR2005/002292 · Jul 16, 2005 · international
WO PCT/KR2005/002306 · Jul 18, 2005 · international
WO PCT/KR2005/002307 · Jul 18, 2005 · international
WO PCT/KR2005/002308 · Jul 18, 2005 · international
Continuity (4)
Continuation 11481917 · Jul 7, 2006
Provisional Application 60957551 · Jul 11, 2005
Provisional Application 60700570 · Jul 19, 2005
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