IP Library Granted Patent US 7,945,447
Granted Patent B2
US 7,945,447 · App. 11/722,737 · Granted May 17, 2011

Sound coding device and sound coding method

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Patent No.
US 7,945,447
App. No.
11/722,737
Granted
May 17, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A sound coding device having a monaural/stereo scalable structure and capable of efficiently coding stereo sound. even when the correlation between the channel signals of a stereo signal is small. In a core layer coding block of this device, a monaural signal generating section generates a monaural signal from first and second-channel sound signal, a monaural signal coding section codes the monaural signal, and a monaural signal decoding section greatest a monaural decoded signal from monaural signal coded data and outputs it to an expansion layer coding block. In the expansion layer coding block, a first-channel prediction signal synthesizing section synthesizes a first-channel prediction signal from the monaural decoded signal and a first-channel prediction filter digitizing parameter and a second-channel prediction signal synthesizing section synthesizes a second-channel prediction signal from the monaural decoded signal and second-channel prediction filter digitizing parameter.

Claims (42)

1. A speech coding apparatus, comprising:

a first coding section that encodes a monaural signal at a core layer; and

a second coding section that encodes a stereo signal at an extension layer, wherein:

the first coding section comprises a generating section that takes a stereo signal including a first channel signal and a second channel signal as input signals and generates a monaural signal from the first channel signal and the second channel signal; and

the second coding section comprises a synthesizing section that synthesizes a prediction signal of one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal based on a signal obtained from the monaural signal, wherein:

the synthesizing section synthesizes the prediction signal using a delay difference and an amplitude ratio of one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal with respect to the monaural signal.

2. A radio communication mobile station apparatus comprising the speech coding apparatus according to claim 1 .

3. A radio communication base station apparatus comprising the speech coding apparatus according to claim 1 .

4. A speech coding apparatus, comprising:

a first coding section that encodes a monaural signal at a core layer; and

a second coding section that encodes a stereo signal at an extension layer, wherein:

the first coding section comprises a generating section that takes a stereo signal including a first channel signal and a second channel signal as input signals and generates a monaural signal from the first channel signal and the second channel signal; and

the second coding section comprises a synthesizing section that synthesizes a prediction signal of one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal based on a signal obtained from the monaural signal, wherein:

the second coding section encodes a residual signal between the prediction signal and one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal.

5. A radio communication mobile station apparatus comprising the speech coding apparatus according to claim 4 .

6. A radio communication base station apparatus comprising the speech coding apparatus according to claim 4 .

7. A speech coding apparatus, comprising:

a first coding section that encodes a monaural signal at a core layer; and

a second coding section that encodes a stereo signal at an extension layer, wherein:

the first coding section comprises a generating section that takes a stereo signal including a first channel signal and a second channel signal as input signals and generates a monaural signal from the first channel signal and the second channel signal; and

the second coding section comprises a synthesizing section that synthesizes a prediction signal of one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal based on a signal obtained from the monaural signal, wherein:

the synthesizing section synthesizes the prediction signal based on a monaural excitation signal obtained by CELP coding the monaural signal.

8. The speech coding apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein:

the second coding section further comprises a calculating section that calculates a first channel LPC residual signal or a second channel LPC residual signal from the first channel signal or the second channel signal; and

the synthesizing section synthesizes the prediction signal using a delay difference and an amplitude ratio of one of the first channel LPC residual signal and the second channel LPC residual signal with respect to the monaural excitation signal.

9. The speech coding apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the synthesizing section synthesizes the prediction signal using the delay difference and the amplitude ratio calculated from the monaural excitation signal and one of the first channel LPC residual signal and the second channel LPC residual signal.

10. The speech coding apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the synthesizing section synthesizes the prediction signal using a delay difference and an amplitude ratio of one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal with respect to the monaural signal.

11. The speech coding apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the synthesizing section synthesizes the prediction signal using the delay difference and the amplitude ratio calculated from the monaural signal and one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal.

12. A radio communication mobile station apparatus comprising the speech coding apparatus according to claim 7 .

13. A radio communication base station apparatus comprising the speech coding apparatus according to claim 7 .

14. A speech coding method for encoding a monaural signal at a core layer and encoding a stereo signal at an extension layer, comprising:

taking a stereo signal including a first channel signal and a second channel signal as input signals and generating a monaural signal from the first channel signal and the second channel signal, at the core layer; and

synthesizing a prediction signal of one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal based on a signal obtained from the monaural signal, at the extension layer, wherein:

the synthesizing synthesizes the prediction signal using a delay difference and an amplitude ratio of one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal with respect to the monaural signal.

15. A speech coding method for encoding a monaural signal at a core layer and encoding a stereo signal at an extension layer, comprising:

taking a stereo signal including a first channel signal and a second channel signal as input signals and generating a monaural signal from the first channel signal and the second channel signal, at the core layer; and

synthesizing a prediction signal of one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal based on a signal obtained from the monaural signal, at the extension layer, wherein:

the synthesizing encodes a residual signal between the prediction signal and one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal.

16. A speech coding method for encoding a monaural signal at a core layer and encoding a stereo signal at an extension layer, comprising:

taking a stereo signal including a first channel signal and a second channel signal as input signals and generating a monaural signal from the first channel signal and the second channel signal, at the core layer; and

synthesizing a prediction signal of one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal based on a signal obtained from the monaural signal, at the extension layer, wherein:

the synthesizing synthesizes the prediction signal based on a monaural excitation signal obtained by CELP coding the monaural signal.

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 21, 2008
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021897/0606 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 20, 2007
From: YOSHIDA, KOJI; GOTO, MICHIYO
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
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