Apparatus and method for low delay object metadata coding

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016133263-A1
Application number	US-201615002127-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 20, 2016
Priority date	Jul 22, 2013
Publication date	May 12, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An apparatus for generating one or more audio channels is provided. The apparatus comprises a metadata decoder for generating one or more reconstructed metadata signals from one or more processed metadata signals depending on a control signal, wherein each of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals indicates information associated with an audio object signal of one or more audio object signals, wherein the metadata decoder is configured to generate the one or more reconstructed metadata signals by determining a plurality of reconstructed metadata samples for each of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals. The apparatus comprises an audio channel generator for generating the one or more audio channels depending on the one or more audio object signals and depending on the one or more reconstructed metadata signals. The metadata decoder is configured to receive a plurality of processed metadata samples of each of the one or more processed metadata signals. The metadata decoder is configured to receive the control signal.

First claim

1 . An apparatus for generating one or more audio channels, wherein the apparatus comprises:
a metadata decoder for generating one or more reconstructed metadata signals from one or more processed metadata signals depending on a control signal, wherein each of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals indicates information associated with an audio object signal of one or more audio object signals, wherein the metadata decoder is configured to generate the one or more reconstructed metadata signals by determining a plurality of reconstructed metadata samples for each of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals, and an audio channel generator for generating the one or more audio channels depending on the one or more audio object signals and depending on the one or more reconstructed metadata signals, wherein the metadata decoder is configured to receive a plurality of processed metadata samples of each of the one or more processed metadata signals, wherein the metadata decoder is configured to receive the control signal, wherein the metadata decoder is configured to determine each reconstructed metadata sample of the plurality of reconstructed metadata samples of each reconstructed metadata signal of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals, so that, when the control signal indicates a first state, said reconstructed metadata sample is a sum of one of the processed metadata samples of one of the one or more processed metadata signals and of another already generated reconstructed metadata sample of said reconstructed metadata signal, and so that, when the control signal indicates a second state being different from the first state, said reconstructed metadata sample is said one of the processed metadata samples of said one of the one or more processed metadata signals.

2 . An apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the metadata decoder is configured to receive two or more of the processed metadata signals, and is configured to generate two or more of the reconstructed metadata signals, wherein the metadata decoder comprises two or more metadata decoder subunits, wherein each of the two or more metadata decoder subunits is configured comprises an adder and a selector, wherein each of the two or more metadata decoder subunits is configured to receive the plurality of processed metadata samplesof one of the two or more processed metadata signals, and is configured to generate one of the two or more reconstructed metadata signals, wherein the adder of said metadata decoder subunit is configured to add one of the processed metadata samples of said one of the two or more processed metadata signals and another already generated reconstructed metadata sample of said one of the two or more reconstructed metadata signals, to acquire a sum value, and wherein the selector of said metadata decoder subunit is configured to receive said one of the processed metadata samples, said sum value and the control signal, and wherein said selector is configured to determine one of the plurality of metadata samples of said reconstructed metadata signal so that, when the control signal indicates the first state, said reconstructed metadata sample is the sum value, and so that, when the control signal indicates the second state, said reconstructed metadata sample is said one of the processed metadata samples.

3 . An apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least one of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals indicates position information on one of the one or more audio object signals, and wherein the audio channel generator is configured to generate at least one of the one or more audio channels depending on said one of the one or more audio object signals and depending on said position information.

4 . An apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least one of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals indicates a volume of one of the one or more audio object signals, and wherein the audio channel generator is configured to generate at least one of the one or more audio channels depending on said one of the one or more audio object signals and depending on said volume.

5 . An apparatus for decoding encoded audio data, comprising:
an input interface for receiving the encoded audio data, the encoded audio data comprising a plurality of encoded channels or a plurality of encoded objects or compress metadata related to the plurality of objects, and an apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the metadata decoder of the apparatus according to claim 1 is a metadata decompressor for decompressing the compressed metadata, wherein the audio channel generator of the apparatus according to claim 1 comprises a core decoder for decoding the plurality of encoded channels and the plurality of encoded objects, wherein the audio channel generator further comprises an object processor for processing the plurality of decoded objects using the decompressed metadata to acquire a number of output channels comprising audio data from the objects and the decoded channels, and wherein the audio channel generator further comprises a post processor for converting the number of output channels into an output format.

6 . An apparatus for generating encoded audio information comprising one or more encoded audio signals and one or more processed metadata signals, wherein the apparatus comprises:
a metadata encoder for receiving one or more original metadata signals and for determining the one or more processed metadata signals, wherein each of the one or more original metadata signals comprises a plurality of original metadata samples, wherein the original metadata samples of each of the one or more original metadata signals indicate information associated with an audio object signal of one or more audio object signals, and an audio encoder for encoding the one or more audio object signals to acquire the one or more encoded audio signals, wherein the metadata encoder is configured to determine each processed metadata sample of a plurality of processed metadata samples of each processed metadata signal of the one or more processed metadata signals, so that, when the control signal indicates a first state, said reconstructed metadata sample indicates a difference or a quantized difference between one of a plurality of original metadata samples of one of the one or more original metadata signals and of another already generated processed metadata sample of said processed metadata signal, and so that, when the control signal indicates a second state being different from the first state, said processed metadata sample is said one of the original metadata samples of said one of the one or more processed metadata signals, or is a quantized representation said one of the original metadata samples.

7 . An apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein the metadata encoder is configured to receive two or more of the original metadata signals, and is configured to generate two or more of the processed metadata signals, wherein the metadata encoder comprises two or more DCPM Encoders, wherein each of the two or more DCPM Encoders is configured to determine a difference or a quantized difference between one of the original metadata samples of one of the two or more original metadata signals and another already generated processed metadata sample of one of the two or more reconstructed metadata signals, to acquire a difference sample, and wherein metadata encoder further comprises a selector being configured to determine one of the plurality of processed metadata samples of said processed metadata signal so that, when the control signal indicates the first state, said processed metadata sample is the difference sample, and so that, when the control signal indicates the second state, said process

Assignees

• Fraunhofer Ges Forschung

Inventors

• Borss Christian
• Ertel Christian
• Hilpert Johannes

Classifications

• H04S5/005 Primary

  of the pseudo five- or more-channel type, e.g. virtual surround · CPC title

• H04S2420/03

  Application of parametric coding in stereophonic audio systems · CPC title

• H04S2400/03

  Aspects of down-mixing multi-channel audio to configurations with lower numbers of playback channels, e.g. 7.1 -> 5.1 (H04S2400/01 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04S3/008

  in which the audio signals are in digital form, i.e. employing more than two discrete digital channels (data reduction aspects thereof based on psychoacoustics G10L19/02) · 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