Apparatus for providing one or more adjusted parameters for a provision of an upmix signal representation on the basis of a downmix signal representation, audio signal decoder, audio signal transcoder, audio signal encoder, audio bitstream, method and computer program using an object-related parametric information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9786285-B2
Application number	US-201414250026-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 10, 2014
Priority date	Apr 28, 2009
Publication date	Oct 10, 2017
Grant date	Oct 10, 2017

Abstract

An apparatus for providing one or more adjusted parameters for a provision of an upmix signal representation on the basis of a downmix signal representation and an object-related parametric information includes a parameter adjuster. The parameter adjuster is configured to receive one or more input parameters and to provide, on the basis thereof, one or more adjusted parameters. The parameter adjuster is configured to provide the one or more adjusted parameters in dependence on the one or more input parameters and the object-related parametric information, such that a distortion of the upmix signal representation caused by the use of non-optimal parameters is reduced at least for input parameters deviating from optimal parameters by more than a predetermined deviation.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An audio signal encoder for providing a downmix signal representation and an object-related parametric information on the basis of a plurality of object signals, the audio encoder comprising:
a downmixer configured to provide one or more downmix signals in dependence on downmix coefficients associated with the object signals, such that the one or more downmix signals comprise a superposition of a plurality of object signals;
a side information provider configured to provide an inter-object-relationship side information describing level differences and correlation characteristics of object signals and an individual-object side information describing one or more individual properties of the individual object signals,
wherein the individual-object side information comprises an object signal tonality information which describes tonalities of the individual object signals.

2. A method for providing a downmix signal representation and an object-related parametric information on the basis of a plurality of object signals, the method comprising:
providing one or more downmix signals in dependence on downmix coefficients associated with the object signals, such that the one or more downmix signals comprise a superposition of a plurality of object signals; and
providing an inter-object-relationship side information describing level differences and correlation characteristics of object signals; and
providing an individual-object side information describing one or more individual properties of the individual object signals,
wherein the individual-object side information comprises an object signal tonality information which describes tonalities of the individual object signals.

3. The audio signal encoder according to claim 1 , wherein the object signal tonality information is transmitted with a coarser frequency resolution than other object parameters.

4. The audio signal encoder according to claim 1 , wherein the object signal tonality information is a broadband characteristic.

5. The audio signal encoder according to claim 1 , wherein the object signal tonality information is transmitted with just one information per object.

6. The audio signal encoder according to claim 1 , wherein the object signal tonality information is a noisiness/tonality information.

7. A non-transitory digital storage medium comprising a computer program for performing, when executed by a computer, the method according to claim 2 .

8. A non-transitory digital storage medium comprising an audio bitstream representing a plurality of object signals in an encoded form, the audio bitstream comprising:
a downmix signal representation representing one or more downmix signals, wherein at least one of the downmix signals comprises a superposition of a plurality of object signals; and
an inter-object-relationship side information describing level differences and correlation characteristics of object signals; and
an individual-object side information describing one or more individual properties of the individual object signals;
wherein the individual-object side information comprises an object signal tonality information which describes tonalities of the individual object signals.

Assignees

• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E V
• Dolby Int Ab
• Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg

Inventors

• Herre Juergen
• Hoelzer Andreas
• Terentiev Leonid
• Kastner Thorsten
• Falch Cornelia
• Purnhagen Heiko
• Engdegard Jonas
• Ridderbusch Falko

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

• G10L19/20

  using sound class specific coding, hybrid encoders or object based coding · CPC title

• G10L19/00

  Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis (in musical instruments G10H) · CPC title