Multi-channel audio signal encoding and decoding method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12437767-B2
Application number	US-202318153128-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 11, 2023
Priority date	Jul 17, 2020
Publication date	Oct 7, 2025
Grant date	Oct 7, 2025

Abstract

A multi-channel audio signal encoding method includes: obtaining a to-be-encoded first audio frame; obtaining a correlation value set, where the correlation value set includes respective correlation values of a plurality of channel pairs; selecting M correlation values from the correlation value set, where all the M correlation values are greater than correlation values other than the M correlation values in the correlation value set, and all the M correlation values are greater than or equal to a pairing threshold; obtaining M channel pair sets; determining a target channel pair set from the M channel pair sets, where a sum of correlation values of all channel pairs in the target channel pair set is the largest in those of the M channel pair sets; and encoding the first audio frame based on the target channel pair set.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A multi-channel audio signal encoding method, comprising:
obtaining a to-be-encoded first audio frame, wherein the first audio frame comprises at least five channel signals;
obtaining a correlation value set, wherein the correlation value set comprises respective correlation values of a plurality of channel pairs, wherein one channel pair of the plurality of channel pairs comprises two channel signals of the at least five channel signals, and wherein a correlation value of the channel pair indicates correlation between the two channel signals of the channel pair;
selecting M correlation values from the correlation value set, wherein all the M correlation values are greater than correlation values other than the M correlation values in the correlation value set, wherein all the M correlation values are greater than or equal to a pairing threshold, and wherein M is a positive integer less than or equal to a specified value;
obtaining M channel pair sets, wherein each channel pair set comprises one or more channel pairs corresponding to the M correlation values, and wherein when the channel pair set comprises at least two channel pairs, the at least two channel pairs do not comprise a same channel signal;
determining a target channel pair set from the M channel pair sets, wherein a sum of correlation values of all channel pairs in the target channel pair set is the largest in those of the M channel pair sets; and
encoding the first audio frame based on the target channel pair set.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the M channel pair sets comprise a first channel pair set, and the obtaining M channel pair sets comprises obtaining the first channel pair set; and
the obtaining the first channel pair set comprises:
adding a first channel pair in M channel pairs to the first channel pair set, wherein the first channel pair is any one of the M channel pairs; and
when channel pairs other than the associated channel pair in the plurality of channel pairs comprise a channel pair whose correlation value is greater than the pairing threshold, selecting a channel pair whose correlation value is the largest from the other channel pairs, and adding the channel pair to the first channel pair set, wherein the associated channel pair comprises any one of channel signals comprised in the channel pair that has been added to the first channel pair set.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the selecting M correlation values from the correlation value set comprises:
selecting N correlation values from the correlation value set, wherein all the N correlation values are greater than correlation values other than the N correlation values in the correlation value set, and N is the specified value; and
selecting correlation values greater than or equal to the pairing threshold from the N correlation values, wherein a quantity of correlation values greater than or equal to the pairing threshold is M.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the correlation value is a normalized value.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein when the correlation value of the channel pair is less than the pairing threshold, the correlation value of the channel pair is set to 0.

6. A multi-channel audio signal encoding method, comprising:
obtaining a to-be-encoded first audio frame, wherein the first audio frame comprises at least five channel signals;
obtaining a correlation value set, wherein the correlation value set comprises respective correlation values of a plurality of channel pairs, wherein one channel pair of the plurality of channel pairs comprises two channel signals of the at least five channel signals, and wherein a correlation value of the channel pair indicates correlation between the two channel signals of the channel pair;
obtaining a plurality of channel pair sets based on the plurality of channel pairs, wherein when the channel pair set comprises at least two channel pairs, the at least two channel pairs do not comprise a same channel signal;
obtaining, based on the correlation value set, a sum of correlation values of all channel pairs comprised in each of the plurality of channel pair sets;
determining a target channel pair set, wherein a sum of correlation values of all channel pairs in the target channel pair set is the largest in those of the plurality of channel pair sets; and
encoding the first audio frame based on the target channel pair set.

7. The method according to claim 6 , the obtaining the plurality of channel pair sets based on the plurality of channel pairs comprises:
obtaining the plurality of channel pair sets based on channel pairs other than an uncorrelated channel pair in the plurality of channel pairs, wherein a correlation value of the uncorrelated channel pair is less than a pairing threshold.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the correlation value is a normalized value.

9. The method according to claim 6 , wherein when the correlation value of the channel pair is less than a pairing threshold, the correlation value of the channel pair is set to 0.

10. A device, comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory, configured to store one or more programs, which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to perform operations comprising:
obtaining a to-be-encoded first audio frame, wherein the first audio frame comprises at least five channel signals;
obtaining a correlation value set, wherein the correlation value set comprises respective correlation values of a plurality of channel pairs, wherein one channel pair of the plurality of channel pairs comprises two channel signals of the at least five channel signals, and wherein a correlation value of the channel pair indicates correlation between the two channel signals of the channel pair;
selecting M correlation values from the correlation value set, wherein all the M correlation values are greater than correlation values other than the M correlation values in the correlation value set, wherein all the M correlation values are greater than or equal to a pairing threshold, and wherein M is a positive integer less than or equal to a specified value;
obtaining M channel pair sets, wherein each channel pair set comprises one or more channel pairs corresponding to the M correlation values, and wherein when the channel pair set comprises at least two channel pairs, the at least two channel pairs do not comprise a same channel signal;
determining a target channel pair set from the M channel pair sets, wherein a sum of correlation values of all channel pairs in the target channel pair set is the largest in those of the M channel pair sets; and
encoding the first audio frame based on the target channel pair set.

11. The device according to claim 10 , wherein the M channel pair sets comprise a first channel pair set, and the obtaining M channel pair sets comprises obtaining the first channel pair set; and
the obtaining the first channel pair set comprises:
adding a first channel pair in M channel pairs to the first channel pair set, wherein the first channel pair is any one of the M channel pairs; and
when channel pairs other than the associated channel pair in the plurality of channel pairs comprise a channel pair whose correlation value is greater than the pairing threshold, selecting a channel pair whose correlation value is the largest from the other channel pairs, and adding the channel pair to the first channel pair set, wherein the associated channel pair comprises any one of channel signals comprised in the channel pair that has been added to the first channel pair set.

12. The device according to claim 10 , wherein the select

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Zhi
• Ding Jiance
• Xia Bingyin
• Wang Bin
• Wang Zhe

Classifications

• G10L25/06

  the extracted parameters being correlation coefficients · CPC title

• 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