COMPANDING SYSTEM AND METHOD TO REDUCE QUANTIZATION NOISE USING ADVANCED SPECTRAL EXTENSION

Embodiments are directed to a companding method and system for reducing coding noise in an audio codec. A compression process reduces an original dynamic range of an initial audio signal through a compression process that divides the initial audio signal into a plurality of segments using a defined...

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Main Authors Schug, Michael, Hedelin, Per, Melkote, Vinay, Biswas, Arijit
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 12.07.2018
Subjects
ACOUSTICS
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
PHYSICS
SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS
SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING
SPEECH RECOGNITION
TRANSMISSION
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Summary:Embodiments are directed to a companding method and system for reducing coding noise in an audio codec. A compression process reduces an original dynamic range of an initial audio signal through a compression process that divides the initial audio signal into a plurality of segments using a defined window shape, calculates a wideband gain in the frequency domain using a non-energy based average of frequency domain samples of the initial audio signal, and applies individual gain values to amplify segments of relatively low intensity and attenuate segments of relatively high intensity. The compressed audio signal is then expanded back to the substantially the original dynamic range that applies inverse gain values to amplify segments of relatively high intensity and attenuating segments of relatively low intensity. A QMF filterbank is used to analyze the initial audio signal to obtain a frequency domain representation.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201815915405