AUDIO DECODING SYSTEM USING SPECTRAL HOLE FILLING

• Main Authors: ROBINSON, CHARLES, QUITO, FELLERS, MATTHEW, CONRAD, WATSON, MATTHEW, AUBREY, VINTON, MARK, STUART, DAVIDSON, GRANT, ALLEN, TRUMAN, MICHAEL, MEAD
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.11.2010
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY; CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL; CODING; DECODING; ELECTRICITY; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION

A method for generating audio information comprises: receiving an input signal and obtaining therefrom a set of subband signals each having one or more spectral components representing spectral content of an audio signal; identifying within the set of subband signals a particular subband signal in which one or more spectral components have a zero value and are quantized by a quantizer having a minimum quantizing level; generating one or more synthesized spectral components that correspond to the one or more zero-valued spectral components in the particular subband signal and that are scaled according to a scaling envelope based upon the minimum quantizing level; generating a modified set of subband signals by substituting the synthesized spectral components for corresponding zero-valued spectral components in the particular subband signal; and generating the audio information by applying a synthesis filterbank to the modified set of subband signals.