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Method and apparatus for variable length encoding of separated tone and noise characteristic components of an acoustic signal
Assignee: Sony Corp
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Filing: 1994-06-29
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Granted: 1998-06-09
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Expires: 2014-06-29
Abstract
Abstract A signal encoding apparatus for encoding an acoustic signal. This signal encoding apparatus includes a transform circuit for transforming an inputted acoustic signal into frequency components, a signal component separating circuit for separating an output of the transform circuit into tone characteristic components and noise characteristic components, a tone characteristic encoding circuit for encoding a signal of tone characteristic components, and a noise characteristic component encoding circuit for encoding a signal of noise characteristic components, wherein the tone characteristic component encoding circuit encodes respective signal components of the signal of tone characteristic components so that they respectively have different code lengths to thereby improve efficiency of encoding without degrading sound quality with respect to acoustic signal of tone characteristic.
Inventors
- 👤 Kyoya Tsutsui
- 👤 Mito Sonohara
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-31 18:11
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04B; H04B14/00; H04B14/02; H04B14/04; G; G10; G10L; G10L19/00; G10L19/04; G10L19/06; G10L19/002; G10L19/012; G10L19/02; G10L19/0212; G10L19/16; H04B1/00; H04B1/66; H04B1/667; G10L25/00; G10L25/03; G10L25/18
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 43
Claim 1
Independent Claim
139 words
A signal encoding apparatus adapted for encoding an input signal, comprising: transforming means for transforming an input signal into a block of frequency components, each frequency component characterized by an energy distribution; separating means for separating an output of the transforming means into a first signal consisting of tone characteristic components each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in the block and a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; first encoding means for encoding the first signal; and second encoding means for encoding the second signal, the first encoding means including variable length encoding means for implementing variable length encoding to respective signal components of only the first signal.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
139 words
A signal encoding apparatus adapted for encoding an input signal, comprising: transforming means for transforming an input signal into a block of frequency components, each frequency component characterized by an energy distribution; separating means for separating an output of the transforming means into a first signal consisting of tone characteristic components each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in the block and a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; first encoding means for encoding the first signal; and second encoding means for encoding the second signal, the first encoding means including variable length encoding means for implementing variable length encoding to respective signal components of only the first signal.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
50 words
A signal encoding apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the first encoding means is operative so that, in implementation of encoding of the first signal, it normalizes amplitude information of respective tone characteristic components of the first signal by normalization coefficients thereafter to implement variable length encoding thereto.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
38 words
A signal encoding apparatus as set forth in claim 1 or 2, wherein the variable length encoding means implements variable length encoding to respective frequency components of the respective tone characteristic components by a plurality of transform rules.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
50 words
A signal encoding apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein which any one of the plurality of transform rules is used in implementation of encoding is determined by relative positional relationship on the frequency base between a maximum frequency component and respective frequency components of the tone characteristic components.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
42 words
A signal encoding apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein one of the plurality of transform rules applied to a maximum frequency component is adapted to carry out a transform processing of frequency components having greater amplitude values, into shorter codes.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
46 words
A signal encoding apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein one of the plurality of transform rules applied to peripheral frequency components of a maximum frequency component is adapted to carry out a transform processing of frequency components having smaller amplitude values into shorter codes.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
17 words
A signal encoding apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the input signal is acoustic signal.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
163 words
A signal encoding apparatus adapted for encoding an input signal, comprising: transforming means for transforming an input signal into a block of frequency components; separating means for separating an output of the transforming means into a first signal consisting of tone characteristic components, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in the block, and a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; first encoding means for normalizing amplitude information of respective tone characteristic components of only the first signal by using normalization coefficients, and quantizing the normalized amplitude information to generate an encoded signal; and second encoding means for encoding the second signal, the first encoding means being operative to output, as the encoded signal, an encoded signal relating to frequency components except for a maximum frequency component of the respective tone characteristic components.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
163 words
A signal encoding apparatus adapted for encoding an input signal, comprising: transforming means for transforming an input signal into a block of frequency components; separating means for separating an output of the transforming means into a first signal consisting of tone characteristic components, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in the block, and a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; first encoding means for normalizing amplitude information of respective tone characteristic components of only the first signal by using normalization coefficients, and quantizing the normalized amplitude information to generate an encoded signal; and second encoding means for encoding the second signal, the first encoding means being operative to output, as the encoded signal, an encoded signal relating to frequency components except for a maximum frequency component of the respective tone characteristic components.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
38 words
A signal encoding apparatus as set forth in claim 8, wherein the separating means extracts, plural times, frequency components overlapping with each other on the frequency base to allow the extracted frequency components to be the first signal.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
29 words
A signal encoding apparatus as set forth in claim 8, wherein values of the normalization coefficients are set so that according as those values become smaller, accuracy becomes higher.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
17 words
A signal encoding apparatus as set forth in claim 8, wherein the input signal is acoustic signal.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
102 words
A signal decoding apparatus adapted for decoding an encoded signal, comprising: first decoding means for decoding a first signal consisting of tone characteristic components caused to undergo variable length encoding, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in a block; second decoding means for decoding a second signal consisting of components other than tone characteristic components; and synthetic inverse transforming means for synthesizing respective signals to inversely transform them, or inversely transforming respective signals to synthesize them.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
102 words
A signal decoding apparatus adapted for decoding an encoded signal, comprising: first decoding means for decoding a first signal consisting of tone characteristic components caused to undergo variable length encoding, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in a block; second decoding means for decoding a second signal consisting of components other than tone characteristic components; and synthetic inverse transforming means for synthesizing respective signals to inversely transform them, or inversely transforming respective signals to synthesize them.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
30 words
A signal decoding apparatus as set forth in claim 12, wherein amplitude information of respective tone characteristic components of the first signal are normalized by normalization coefficients and are encoded.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
27 words
A signal decoding apparatus as set forth in claim 12 or 13, wherein the first decoding means decodes the first signal by a plurality of transform rules.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
47 words
A signal decoding apparatus as set forth in claim 14, wherein which any one of the plurality of transform rules in implementation of decoding is determined by relative positional relationship on the frequency base between a maximum frequency component and respective frequency components of tone characteristic components.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
42 words
A signal decoding apparatus as set forth in claim 14, wherein one of the plurality of transform rules applied to a maximum frequency component is adapted to carry out a transform processing of frequency components having smaller amplitude values, into shorter codes.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
45 words
A signal decoding apparatus as set forth in claim 14, wherein one of the plurality of transform rules applied to components except for a maximum frequency component is adapted to carry out a transform processing of frequency components having smaller amplitude values, into short codes.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
20 words
A signal decoding apparatus as set forth in claim 12, wherein the synthetic inverse transforming means outputs an acoustic signal.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
124 words
A signal decoding apparatus adapted for decoding an encoded signal, comprising: first decoding means for decoding a normalized and encoded first signal consisting of tone characteristic components, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distributions of frequency components in a block; second decoding means for decoding a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; and synthetic inverse transforming means for synthesizing respective signals to inversely transform them, or inversely transforming respective signals to synthesize them, the first decoding means being operative to reproduce a maximum frequency component of the tone characteristic component on the basis of transmitted normalization coefficient.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
124 words
A signal decoding apparatus adapted for decoding an encoded signal, comprising: first decoding means for decoding a normalized and encoded first signal consisting of tone characteristic components, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distributions of frequency components in a block; second decoding means for decoding a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; and synthetic inverse transforming means for synthesizing respective signals to inversely transform them, or inversely transforming respective signals to synthesize them, the first decoding means being operative to reproduce a maximum frequency component of the tone characteristic component on the basis of transmitted normalization coefficient.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
31 words
A signal decoding apparatus as set forth in claim 19, wherein tone characteristic components of the first signal are encoded in the state overlapping with each other on the frequency base.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
27 words
A signal decoding apparatus as set forth in claim 19, wherein the normalization coefficients are set so that according as those values become smaller, accuracy become higher.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
20 words
A signal decoding apparatus as set forth in claim 19, wherein the synthetic inverse transform means outputs an acoustic signal.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
105 words
A signal encoding method for encoding an input signal, comprising the steps of: transforming an input signal into a block of frequency components, each frequency component characterized by an energy distribution; separating the frequency components into a signal consisting of tone characteristic components, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in the block, and a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; implementing variable length encoding to only the first signal; and encoding the second signal.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
105 words
A signal encoding method for encoding an input signal, comprising the steps of: transforming an input signal into a block of frequency components, each frequency component characterized by an energy distribution; separating the frequency components into a signal consisting of tone characteristic components, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in the block, and a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; implementing variable length encoding to only the first signal; and encoding the second signal.
Claim 29
Dependent Claim
32 words
A signal encoding method as set forth in claim 23, wherein amplitude information of the first signal are normalized by normalization coefficients, and are then caused to undergo the variable length encoding.
Claim 30
Dependent Claim
33 words
A signal encoding method as set forth in claim 23 or 24, wherein the first signal is caused to undergo variable length encoding on the basis of a plurality of different transform rules.
Claim 31
Dependent Claim
49 words
A signal encoding method as set forth in claim 25, wherein any one of the plurality of different transform rules is selected on the basis of relative positional relationship on the frequency base between a maximum frequency component of signal components of the first signal and other frequency components.
Claim 32
Dependent Claim
43 words
A signal encoding method as set forth in claim 25, wherein one of the plurality of transform rules applied to a maximum frequency component is adapted to carry out a transform processing of frequency components having greater a amplitude values into shorter codes.
Claim 33
Dependent Claim
41 words
A signal encoding method as set forth in claim 25, wherein one of the plurality of transform rules applied to respective frequency components except for a maximum frequency component is adapted to allocate shorter codes with respect to smaller amplitude values.
Claim 34
Dependent Claim
162 words
A signal encoding method for encoding an input signal, comprising the steps of: transforming an input signal into a block of frequency components each frequency component characterized by an energy distribution; separating the frequency components of the transformed input signal into a first signal consisting of tone characteristic components, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in the block, and a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; normalizing amplitude information of respective tone characteristic components of the first signal by using normalization coefficients, and quantizing the normalized amplitude information to encode them; and encoding the second signal; the step of encoding the first signal includes a step of outputting, as the encoded signal, an encoded signal relating to frequency components except for a maximum frequency component of the respective tone characteristic components.
Claim 35
Dependent Claim
162 words
A signal encoding method for encoding an input signal, comprising the steps of: transforming an input signal into a block of frequency components each frequency component characterized by an energy distribution; separating the frequency components of the transformed input signal into a first signal consisting of tone characteristic components, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in the block, and a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; normalizing amplitude information of respective tone characteristic components of the first signal by using normalization coefficients, and quantizing the normalized amplitude information to encode them; and encoding the second signal; the step of encoding the first signal includes a step of outputting, as the encoded signal, an encoded signal relating to frequency components except for a maximum frequency component of the respective tone characteristic components.
Claim 36
Dependent Claim
32 words
A signal encoding method as set forth in claim 29, wherein the step of separation includes a step of extracting, plural times, frequency components overlapping with each other on the frequency base.
Claim 37
Dependent Claim
27 words
A signal encoding method as set forth in claim 29, wherein the normalization coefficients are set so that according as those values become smaller, accuracy becomes higher.
Claim 38
Dependent Claim
123 words
A signal decoding method for decoding an encoded signal, comprising the steps of: decoding a normalized and encoded first signal consisting of tone characteristic components, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in a block; and decoding a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; synthesizing respective signals to inversely transform them, or inversely transforming respective signals to synthesize them, thus to reproduce an original signal, the step of decoding the first signal including a step of reproducing a maximum frequency component of the tone characteristic components on the basis of transmitted normalization coefficients.
Claim 39
Dependent Claim
123 words
A signal decoding method for decoding an encoded signal, comprising the steps of: decoding a normalized and encoded first signal consisting of tone characteristic components, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in a block; and decoding a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; synthesizing respective signals to inversely transform them, or inversely transforming respective signals to synthesize them, thus to reproduce an original signal, the step of decoding the first signal including a step of reproducing a maximum frequency component of the tone characteristic components on the basis of transmitted normalization coefficients.
Claim 40
Dependent Claim
29 words
A signal decoding method as set forth in claim 32, wherein the first signal includes a plurality of tone characteristic components overlapping with each other on the frequency base.
Claim 41
Dependent Claim
27 words
A signal decoding method as set forth in claim 32, wherein the normalization coefficients are set so that according as those values become smaller, accuracy becomes higher.
Claim 42
Dependent Claim
174 words
A signal encoding apparatus adapted for encoding an input signal, comprising: transforming means for transforming an input signal into a block of frequency components, each frequency component characterized by an energy distribution; separating means for separating an output of the transforming means into a first signal consisting of tone characteristic components, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in the block, and a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; first encoding means for encoding only the first signal and alternatively only the second signal, the first encoding means including variable length encoding means for implementing variable length encoding to respective signal components of the first signal and alternatively the second signal; and second encoding means for encoding the second signal when the first encoding means encodes the first signal and alternatively encoding the first signal when the first encoding means encodes the second signal.
Claim 43
Dependent Claim
174 words
A signal encoding apparatus adapted for encoding an input signal, comprising: transforming means for transforming an input signal into a block of frequency components, each frequency component characterized by an energy distribution; separating means for separating an output of the transforming means into a first signal consisting of tone characteristic components, each tone characteristic component having a sharp energy distribution relative to energy distributions of frequency components in a local neighborhood of the tone characteristic component and to energy distribution of frequency components in the block, and a second signal consisting of components other than the tone characteristic components; first encoding means for encoding only the first signal and alternatively only the second signal, the first encoding means including variable length encoding means for implementing variable length encoding to respective signal components of the first signal and alternatively the second signal; and second encoding means for encoding the second signal when the first encoding means encodes the first signal and alternatively encoding the first signal when the first encoding means encodes the second signal.
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