Method and apparatus for decomposing a stereo recording using frequency-domain processing employing a spectral weights generator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9883307-B2
Application number	US-201414146127-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 2, 2014
Priority date	Jul 5, 2011
Publication date	Jan 30, 2018
Grant date	Jan 30, 2018

Abstract

An apparatus for generating a stereo side signal having a first side channel and a second side channel from a stereo input signal having a first input channel and a second input channel is provided. The apparatus has a modification information generator for generating modification information based on mid-side information. Furthermore, the apparatus has a signal manipulator being adapted to manipulate the first input channel based on the modification information to obtain the first side channel and being adapted to manipulate the second input channel based on the modification information to obtain the second side channel. The modification information generator has a spectral weights generator for generating the modification information by generating a first spectral weighting factor based on a mono mid signal and on a mono side signal of the stereo input signal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An apparatus for generating a stereo side signal comprising a first side channel and a second side channel from a stereo input signal comprising a first input channel and a second input channel, comprising:
a modification information generator for generating modification information, the modification information generator comprising a spectral weights generator for generating the modification information by generating a first spectral weighting factor using a mono mid signal and using a mono side signal of the stereo input signal, wherein the mono mid signal depends on a sum of the first input channel and the second input channel, and wherein the mono side signal depends on a difference of the first input channel and the second input channel, and
a signal manipulator being adapted to manipulate the first input channel using the modification information to acquire the first side channel and being adapted to manipulate the second input channel using the modification information to acquire the second side channel.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the signal manipulator is adapted to manipulate the second input channel based on the first spectral weighting factor as modification information to acquire the second side channel.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the modification information generator is adapted to generate the modification information based on the mono mid signal of the stereo input signal or on the mono side signal of the stereo input signal, wherein the mono mid signal depends on a sum signal resulting from adding the first and the second input channel, and wherein the mono side signal depends on a difference signal resulting from subtracting the second input channel from the first input channel.

4. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the apparatus further comprises a channel generator, wherein the channel generator is adapted to generate the mono mid signal or the mono side signal based on the first and the second input channel.

5. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the apparatus further comprises:
a transform unit for transforming the first and the second input channel of the stereo input signal from a time domain into a spectral domain, and
an inverse transform unit,
wherein the signal manipulator is adapted to manipulate the first input channel being represented in the spectral domain and the second input channel being represented in the spectral domain to acquire the stereo side signal being represented in the spectral domain,
and wherein the inverse transform unit is adapted to transform the stereo side signal being represented in the spectral domain from the spectral domain into the time domain.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the modification information generator comprises the spectral weights generator for generating the modification information by generating the first spectral weighting factor based on the mono mid signal and on the mono side signal of the stereo input signal,
wherein the spectral weights generator is adapted to generate a second spectral weighting factor based on the mono mid signal and on the mono side signal of the stereo input signal,
and wherein the signal manipulator is adapted to manipulate the second input channel based on the second spectral weighting factor as modification information to acquire the second side channel.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the modification information generator comprises the spectral weights generator for generating the modification information by generating the first spectral weighting factor based on the mono mid signal and on the mono side signal of the stereo input signal,
wherein the modification information generator further comprises a magnitude determinator,
wherein the magnitude determinator is adapted to receive the mono mid signal being represented in a spectral domain, and wherein the magnitude determinator is adapted to receive the mono side signal being represented in a spectral domain,
wherein the magnitude determinator is adapted to determine a magnitude value of the mono side signal as a magnitude side value and wherein the magnitude determinator is adapted to determine a magnitude value of the mono mid signal as a magnitude mid value,
wherein the magnitude determinator is adapted to feed the magnitude side value and the magnitude mid value into the spectral weights generator, and
wherein the spectral weights generator is adapted to generate the first spectral weighting factor based on a ratio of a first number to a second number, wherein the first number depends on the magnitude side value, and wherein the second number depends on the magnitude mid value and the magnitude side value.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the modification information generator comprises the spectral weights generator for generating the modification information by generating the first spectral weighting factor based on the mono mid signal and on the mono side signal of the stereo input signal,
wherein the spectral weights generator is adapted to generate the modification factor according to the formula:

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Assignees

• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E V

Inventors

• Uhle Christian
• Finauer Stefan
• Gampp Patrick
• Hellmuth Oliver
• Prokein Peter
• Stoecklmeier Christian

Classifications

• H04S1/002 Primary

  Non-adaptive circuits, e.g. manually adjustable or static, for enhancing the sound image or the spatial distribution (control circuits for electronic adaptation of the sound field H04S7/30) · CPC title

• H04S3/00 Primary

  Systems employing more than two channels, e.g. quadraphonic (H04S5/00, H04S7/00 take precedence) · CPC title

• H04S3/002

  Non-adaptive circuits, e.g. manually adjustable or static, for enhancing the sound image or the spatial distribution (control circuits for electronic adaptation of the sound field H04S7/30) · CPC title

• G10L19/02

  using spectral analysis, e.g. transform vocoders or subband vocoders · CPC title

• H04S1/00 Primary

  Two-channel systems (H04S5/00, H04S7/00 take precedence) · CPC title