The present invention relates to a line predicative coder (LPC) residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus of a modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) based unified voice and audio encoding device, and relates to a configuration for processing an LPC residual signal in a unified configuration unifying an MDCT based audio coder and an LPC based audio coder.
An efficiency and a sound quality of an audio signal may be maximized by using different encoding methods depending on a property of an input signal. As an example, when a CELP based voice and audio encoding device is applied to a signal, such as a voice, a high encoding efficiency may be provided, and when a transform based audio coder is applied to an audio signal, such as a music, a high sound quality and a high compression efficiency may be provided.
Accordingly, a signal that is similar to a voice may be encoded by using a voice encoding device and a signal that has a property of music may be encoded by using an audio encoding device. A unified encoding device may include an input signal property analyzing device to analyze a property of an input signal and may select and switch an encoding device based on the analyzed property of the signal.
Here, to improve an encoding efficiency of the unified voice and audio encoding device, there is need of a technology that is capable of encoding in a real domain and also in a complex domain.
An aspect of the present invention provides a block, expressing a residual signal as a complex signal and performing encoding/decoding, that is embodied to encode/decode the LPC residual signal, thereby providing an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus that improves encoding performance.
Another aspect of the present invention also provides a block, expressing a residual signal as a complex signal and performing encoding/decoding, that is embodied to encode/decode the LPC residual signal, thereby providing an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus that does not generate an aliasing on a time axis.
According to an aspect of an exemplary embodiment, there is provided a linear predicative coder (LPC) residual signal encoding apparatus of a modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) based unified voice and audio encoding device, including a signal analyzing unit to analyze a property of an input signal and to select an encoding method for an LPC filtered signal, a first encoding unit to encode the LPC residual signal based on a real filterbank according to the selection of the signal analyzing unit, a second encoding unit to encode the LPC residual signal based on a complex filterbank according to the selection of the signal analyzing unit, and a third encoding unit to encode the LPC residual signal based on an algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP) according to the selection of the signal analyzing unit.
The first encoding unit performs an MDCT based filterbank with respect to the LPC residual signal, to encode the LPC residual signal.
The second encoding unit performs a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) based filterbank with respect to the LPC residual signal, to encode the LPC residual signal.
The second encoding unit performs a modified discrete sine transform (MDST) based filterbank with respect to the LPC residual signal, to encode the LPC residual signal.
According to another aspect of an exemplary embodiment, there is provided an LPC residual signal encoding apparatus of an MDCT based unified voice and audio encoding device, including a signal analyzing unit to analyze a property of an input signal and to select an encoding method of an LPC filtered signal, a first encoding unit to perform at least one of a real filterbank based encoding and a complex filterbank based encoding, when the input signal is an audio signal, and a second encoding unit to encode the LPC residual signal based on an ACELP, when the input signal is a voice signal.
The first encoding unit includes an MDCT encoding unit to perform an MDCT based encoding, an MDST encoding unit to perform an MDST based encoding, and an outputting unit to output at least one of an MDCT coefficient and an MDST coefficient according to the property of the input signal.
According to still another aspect of an exemplary embodiment, there is provided an LPC residual signal decoding apparatus of an MDCT based unified voice and audio decoding device, including a decoding unit to decode an LPC residual signal encoded from a frequency domain, an audio decoding unit to decode an LPC residual signal encoded from a time domain, and a distortion controlling unit to compensate for a distortion between an output signal of the audio decoding unit and an output signal of the voice decoding unit.
The audio decoding apparatus includes a first decoding unit to decode an LPC residual signal encoded based on a real filterbank, and a second decoding unit to decode an LPC residual signal encoded based on a complex filterbank.
According to an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a block, expressing a residual signal as a complex signal and performing encoding/decoding, that is embodied to encode/decode the LPC residual signal, thereby providing an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus that improves encoding performance.
According to an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a block, expressing a residual signal as a complex signal and performing encoding/decoding, that is embodied to encode/decode the LPC residual signal, thereby providing an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus that does not generate an aliasing on a time axis.
Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout. The embodiments are described below in order to explain the present invention by referring to the figures.
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The signal analyzing unit 110 may analyze a property of an input signal and may select an encoding method for an LPC filtered signal. As an example, when the input signal is an audio signal, the input signal is encoded by the first encoding unit 120 or the second encoding unit 130, and when the input signal is a voice signal, the input signal is encoded by the third encoding unit 120. In this instance, the signal analyzing unit 110 may transfer a control command to select the encoding method, and may control one of the first encoding unit 120, the second encoding unit 130, and the third encoding unit 140 to perform encoding.
Accordingly, one of a real filterbank based residual signal encoding, a complex filterbanks based residual signal encoding, and an algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP) based residual signal encoding may be performed.
The first encoding unit 120 may encode the LPC residual signal based on the real filterbank according to the selection of the signal analyzing unit. As an example, the first encoding unit 120 may perform a modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) based filterbank with respect to the LPC residual signal and may encode the LPC residual signal.
The second encoding unit 130 may encode the LPC residual signal based on the complex filterbanks according to the selection of the signal analyzing unit As an example, the second encoding unit 130 may perform a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) based filter bank with respect to the LPC residual signal, and may encode the LPC residual signal. Also, the second encoding unit 130 may perform a modified discrete sine transform (MDST) based filterbank with respect to the LPC residual signal, and may encode the LPC residual signal.
The third encoding unit 140 may encode the LPC residual signal based on the ACELP according to the selection of the signal analyzing unit. That is, when the input signal is a voice signal, the third encoding unit 140 may encode LPC residual signal based on the ACELP.
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That is, when the signal analyzing unit 210 analyzes the input signal, and generates a control command to control a switch, one of a first encoding unit 220, a second encoding unit 230, and a third encoding unit 240 may perform encoding according to the controlling of the switch. Here, the first encoding unit 220 encodes the LPC residual signal based on the real filterbank, the second encoding unit 230 encodes the LPC residual signal based on the complex filterbank, and the third encoding unit 240 encodes the LPC residual signal based on the ACELP.
Here, when the complex filterbank is performed with respect to the same size of frame, twice the amount of data is outputted than when the real based (e.g. MDCT based) filterbank is performed, due to an imaginary part. That is, when the complex filterbank is applied to the same input, twice the amount of data needs to be encoded. However, in a case of an MDCT based residual signal, an aliasing occurs on a time axis. Conversely, in a case of a complex transform, such as a DTF and the like, an aliasing does not occur on the time axis.
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That is, when a signal analyzing unit 310 may generate a control signal based on the property of the input signal and transfer a command to select an encoding method, one of the first encoding unit 320 and the second encoding unit 330 may perform encoding. In this instance, when the input signal is an audio signal, the first encoding unit 320 performs encoding, and when the input signal is a voice signal, the second encoding unit 330 performs encoding.
Here, the first encoding unit 320 may perform one of a real filterbank based encoding or a complex filterbank based encoding, and may include an MDCT encoding unit (not illustrated) to perform an MDCT based encoding, an MDST encoding unit (not illustrated) to perform an MDST based encoding, and an outputting unit (not illustrated) to output at least one of an MDCT coefficient and an MDST coefficient according to the property of the input signal.
Accordingly, the first encoding unit 320 performs the MDCT based encoding and the MDST based encoding as a complex transform, and determines whether to output only the MDCT coefficient or to output both the MDCT coefficient and the MDST coefficient based on a status of the control signal of the signal analyzing unit 310.
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The voice decoding unit 420 may decode an LPC residual signal encoded from a time domain. That is, when the input signal is a voice signal, the signal is encoded from the time domain, and thus, the voice decoding unit 420 inversely performs the encoding process to decode the voice signal.
The distortion controller 430 may compensate for a distortion between an output signal of the audio decoding unit 410 and an output signal of the voice decoding unit 420. That is, the distortion controller may compensate for discontinuity or distortion occurring when the output signal of the audio decoding unit 410 or the output signal of the voice decoding unit 420 is connected.
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Also, in an encoding process, a window applied as a preprocess of a real based (e.g. MDCT based) filterbank and a window applied as a preprocess of a complex based filter bank may be differently defined, and when the MDCT based filterbank is performed, a window may be defined as given in Table 1 below, according to a mode of a previous frame.
As an example, a shape of a window of an MDCT residual filterbank mode 1 will be described with reference to
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Also, when both of the current frame and the previous frame are in a complex filterbank mode, a shape of a window of the current frame may be defined as given in Table 2 below.
Table 2 does not include the and ZR, unlike Table 1, and has the same frame size and the same coefficients transformed into the frequency domain. That is, the number of the transformed coefficients is ZL+L+M+R+ZR.
Also, a window shape, when an MDCT based filter bank is applied in the previous frame, and a complex based filter bank is applied in the current frame, will be described as given in Table 3.
Here, an overlap size of a left side of the window, that is a size overlapped with the previous frame, may be set to “128”.
Also, a window shape, when the previous frame is in the complex filterbank mode and the current frame is in an MDCT based filterbank mode, will be described as given in Table 4.
Here, the same window of Table 1 may be applicable to Table 4. However, the R section of the window may be transformed to “128” with respect to the complex filterbank mode 1 and 2 of the previous frame. An example of the transformation will be described in detail with reference to
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Also, when the previous frame performs encoding by using an ACELP, and a current frame is in an MDCT filterbank mode, the window may be defined as given in Table 5.
That is, Table 5 defines a window of each mode of the current frame when a last mode of the previous frame is zero. Here, when the last mode of the previous frame is zero and a mode of the current frame is “3”, Table 6 may be applicable.
Here, α may be 0≧αsN/2 or α=sN. Inl this instance, a transform coefficient may be 5×sN. As an example, sN=128 in Table 6.
Accordingly, a frame connection method of when 0≦α≦sN/2 and a frame connection method of when α=sN are different will be described in detail with reference to
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When sN=128, the connection is processed as shown in
Next, the wα is applied last and a block to be lastly overlap added is generated. The wα is applied last once again, since a windowing after the transformation from Frequency to Time is considered. The generated block ((wα×xb)+(wαr×xbr))×wα is overlap added and is connected to an MDCT block of a Mode 3.
As described in the above description, a block, expressing a residual signal as a complex signal and performing encoding/decoding, is embodied to encode/decode an LPC residual signal, and thus, an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus that improves encoding performance may be provided and an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus that does not generate an aliasing on a time axis may be provided.
Although a few embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, the present invention is not limited to the described embodiments. Instead, it would be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes may be made to these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.
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