Inter-channel phase difference parameter extraction method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11915709-B2
Application number	US-202217842284-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 16, 2022
Priority date	May 31, 2016
Publication date	Feb 27, 2024
Grant date	Feb 27, 2024

Abstract

An inter-channel phase difference (IPD) parameter extraction method includes obtaining a parameter for obtaining an information extraction manner for a current frame of a multi-channel signal; obtaining an IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame based on the parameter for obtaining the information extraction manner, where the obtained IPD parameter extraction manner is one of at least two preset IPD parameter extraction manners; and obtaining an IPD parameter of the current frame based on the obtained IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
obtaining at least one of a current parameter of a current frame of an audio signal or a previous parameter of a previous frame of the audio signal, wherein the audio signal comprises at least two channels, wherein the current parameter comprises at least one of a first parameter representing a left-right channel coherence of the current frame, a first subband inter-channel phase difference (IPD) variance of the current frame, a first signal class of the current frame, or an inter-channel time difference (ITD) of the current frame, wherein the previous parameter comprises at least one of a second parameter representing a left-right channel coherence of the previous frame, a second subband IPD variance of the previous frame, an ITD parameter of the previous frame, an IPD parameter extraction manner for the previous frame, or a second signal class of the previous frame, wherein the second signal class is either speech or music and the first signal class is either the speech or the music;
obtaining an IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame based on the at least one of the current parameter or the previous parameter, wherein the IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame is a first IPD parameter extraction manner or a second IPD parameter extraction manner, wherein the first IPD parameter extraction manner comprises one of a first manner for extracting a group IPD parameter of the current frame, a second manner for not extracting an IPD parameter of the current frame, or a third manner for setting the IPD parameter of the current frame to zero, and wherein the second IPD parameter extraction manner comprises one of a fourth manner for extracting subband set IPD parameters or a fifth manner for extracting subband IPD parameters;
extracting the IPD parameter of the current frame based on the IPD parameter extraction manner; and
encoding the IPD parameter of the current frame,
wherein obtaining the IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame comprises obtaining, when a value of the first parameter is greater than a first threshold, the first IPD parameter extraction manner as the IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame, and
wherein the first threshold is 0.75.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first IPD parameter extraction manner is the first manner, and wherein extracting the IPD parameter of the current frame comprises extracting subband IPD parameters of a left-channel signal and a right-channel signal of the current frame.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second IPD parameter extraction manner is the fourth manner, and wherein extracting the IPD parameter of the current frame comprises classifying subbands of a left-channel signal of the current frame and a right-channel signal of the current frame into at least two subband sets.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame comprises obtaining, when the IPD parameter extraction manner for the previous frame is the first IPD parameter extraction manner and the second signal class is the music, the first IPD parameter extraction manner as the IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame comprises obtaining, when a value of the ITD of the current frame is greater than a first threshold, the first subband IPD variance is less than a second threshold, and the second signal class is the speech, the first IPD parameter extraction manner as the IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first IPD parameter extraction manner is the first manner, and wherein extracting the IPD parameter of the current frame comprises:
extracting subband IPD parameters of a left-channel signal and a right-channel signal of the current frame; and
obtaining the group IPD parameter of the current frame based on the subband IPD parameters.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second IPD parameter extraction manner is the fifth manner, and wherein extracting the IPD parameter of the current frame comprises calculating IPD parameters of at least some subbands of a left-channel signal of the current frame and a right-channel signal of the current frame.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second IPD parameter extraction manner is the fourth manner, and wherein extracting the IPD parameter of the current frame comprises:
classifying subbands of a left-channel signal of the current frame and a right-channel signal of the current frame into at least two subband sets, wherein each subband set of the at least two subband sets comprises at least one subband, and wherein at least one subband set of the at least two subband sets comprises at least two subbands; and
calculating an IPD parameter of each subband set of the at least two subband sets.

9. An apparatus, comprising:
a memory configured to store instructions; and
a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to cause the apparatus to be configured to:
obtain at least one of a current parameter of a current frame of an audio signal or a previous parameter of a previous frame of the audio signal, wherein the audio signal comprises at least two channels, wherein the current parameter comprises at least one of a first parameter representing a left-right channel coherence of the current frame, a first subband inter-channel phase difference (IPD) variance of the current frame, a first signal class of the current frame, or an inter-channel time difference (ITD) of the current frame, wherein the previous parameter comprises at least one of a second parameter representing a left-right channel coherence of the previous frame, a second subband IPD variance of the previous frame, an ITD parameter of the previous frame, an IPD parameter extraction manner for the previous frame, or a second signal class of the previous frame, and wherein the second signal class is either speech or music and the first signal class is either the speech or the music;
obtain an IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame based on the at least one of the current parameter or the previous parameter, wherein the IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame is a first IPD parameter extraction manner or a second IPD parameter extraction manner, wherein the first IPD parameter extraction manner comprises one of a first manner for extracting a group IPD parameter of the current frame, a second manner for not extracting an IPD parameter of the current frame, or a third manner for setting the IPD parameter of the current frame to zero, and wherein the second IPD parameter extraction manner comprises one of a fourth manner for extracting subband set IPD parameters or a fifth manner for extracting subband IPD parameters;
extract the IPD parameter of the current frame based on the IPD parameter extraction manner; and
encode the IPD parameter of the current frame;
wherein when executed by the processor, the instructions cause the apparatus to obtain, when a value of the first parameter is greater than a first threshold, the first IPD parameter extraction manner as the IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame;
wherein the first threshold is 0.75.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the first IPD parameter extraction manner is the first manner, and wherein when executed by the processor, the instructions cause the apparatus to extract the IPD parameter of the current frame at least in part by extracting subband IPD parameters of a left-channel signal and a right-channel signal of the current frame.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Xingtao
• Li Haiting
• Liu Zexin
• Miao Lei

Classifications

• G10L19/008 Primary

  Multichannel audio signal coding or decoding using interchannel correlation to reduce redundancy, e.g. joint-stereo, intensity-coding or matrixing · CPC title

• G10L25/03

  characterised by the type of extracted parameters · CPC title