| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080270124 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AUDIO/SPEECH SIGNAL - Provided is a method of encoding an audio/speech signal, the method including determining a variable length of a frame, that is, a processing unit of an input signal in accordance with a position of an attack in the input signal; transforming each frame of the input signal to a frequency domain and dividing the frame into a plurality of sub frequency bands; and, if a signal of a sub frequency band is determined to be encoded in the frequency domain, encoding the signal of the sub frequency band in the frequency domain, and if the signal of the sub frequency band is determined to be encoded in a time domain, inverse transforming the signal of the sub frequency band to the time domain and encoding the inverse transformed signal in the time domain. According to the present invention, the audio/speech signal may be efficiently encoded by controlling time resolution and frequency resolution. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090037169 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING FIXED CODEBOOKS OF SPEECH CODECS AS COMMON MODULE - A method and apparatus for implementing fixed codebooks as a common module are provided. In the method of implementing fixed codebooks of a plurality of speech codecs as a common module, it is possible to include only a part excluding fixed codebooks in a communication terminal or communication system, support various speech codecs without using a chip with high price and high performance, and reduce a memory space that is occupied by the speech codecs by generating a track of a fixed codebook corresponding to a speech codec based on information on the speech codec among the plurality of speech codecs and selecting a codebook vector corresponding to a target signal among codebook vectors constructed with combinations of pulses represented by the generated track. In addition, it is possible to reduce processing complexity as compared with a case of embodying the common fixed codebook module in software by embodying the common fixed codebook module in hardware. In addition, it is possible to improve the entire voice processing performance by applying the latest fixed codebook searching algorithm only to the common fixed codebook, thereby easily applying the latest fixed codebook searching algorithm to the entire voice codec. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090089479 | Method of managing memory, and method and apparatus for decoding multi-channel data - A memory management method is provided. In the method, a spatial parameter included in an encoding result is represented as a vector of a time slot and a frequency band in a first domain, a temporary matrix is calculated in the first domain by using the difference between vectors of a current time slot and a previous time slot at the same frequency band and then is stored in a memory, and then a matrix needed to decode the encoding result is represented as a matrix for a time slot and a frequency band in a second domain by using the temporary matrix, thereby reducing the load on the memory for storing matrices on which a decoding operation is performed. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100104106 | Audio processing apparatus and method of mobile device - An audio processing apparatus and method for a mobile device are provided. The audio processing apparatus and method may appropriately determine sound source localizations corresponding to a voice signal and an audio signal, and thereby may simultaneously provide a voice call service and a multimedia service. Also, the audio processing apparatus and method may guarantee quality of the voice call service even when simultaneously providing the voice call service and the multimedia service. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100166238 | Surround sound virtualization apparatus and method - A surround sound virtualization apparatus and method. The surround sound virtualization apparatus may include an audio decoder to perform head-related transfer function (HRTF) filtering, and a time delay unit to provide a time delay to a plurality of output signals of the audio decoder. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100172508 | Method and apparatus of generating sound field effect in frequency domain - A method and apparatus of generating a sound field effect is provided. The sound field effect generating apparatus may generate a frequency coefficient that is frequency-transformed from a direct signal, may generate a reflection signal from the frequency coefficient, may generate an output signal using the frequency coefficient and the reflection signal, and may perform an inverse-frequency transform of the output signal. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20110091044 | Virtual speaker apparatus and method for processing virtual speaker - A virtual speaker apparatus and a virtual speaker processing method is disclosed. The virtual speaker apparatus uses the closest surround speaker when a virtual speaker to be virtually generated is a back left virtual speaker or a back right virtual speaker. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110116638 | Apparatus of generating multi-channel sound signal - An apparatus of generating a multi-channel sound signal is provided. The apparatus may include a sound separator to determine a number (N) of sound signals based on at least one of a mixing characteristic and a spatial characteristic of a multi-channel sound signal when receiving the multi-channel sound signal, and to separate the multi-channel sound signal into N sound signals, the sound signals being generated such that the multi-channel sound signal is separated, and a sound synthesizer to synthesize N sound signals to be M sound signals. | 05-19-2011 |