Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130170646 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AUDIO OBJECT - An apparatus and method for transmitting a plurality of audio objects using a multichannel encoder and a multichannel decoder are provided. The audio object encoder includes a multichannel encoder determination unit to determine a multichannel encoder to be used for encoding of a plurality of audio objects according to the number of the audio objects, an encoding unit to generate an encoded signal by encoding the plurality of audio objects using the determined multichannel encoder, and a multichannel audio object signal generation unit to generating a multichannel audio object signal, by multiplexing sound image localization information of the plurality of audio objects along with the encoded signal. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170651 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EDITING MULTICHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL - An apparatus and method for generating a multichannel audio signal showing a 3-dimensional (3D) effect by editing an existing multichannel audio signal. The apparatus may include an output location determiner to determine location to output an object audio signal using editing information of the object audio signal, and a multichannel object audio signal generator to generate a multichannel object audio signal by allocating the object audio signal to channels corresponding to the location to output the object audio signal. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170652 | FRONT WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS (WFS) SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SURROUND SOUND USING 7.1 CHANNEL CODEC - Provided is a system and method for front wave field synthesis (WFS) to provide a surround sound with a reduced number of loudspeakers. An apparatus for encoding a front WFS signal in the front WFS system may include a content receiving unit to receive WFS content including the first channels corresponding to a front array speaker and the second channels corresponding to a rear surround sound speaker, and an encoding unit to encode the first channels and the second channels using a multichannel encoder corresponding to the number of the channels included in the WFS content. | 07-04-2013 |
20130322666 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNAL AND AUDIO PLAYBACK SYSTEM - A Method for processing an audio signal to use a beamforming technique in a three-dimensional (3D) space is disclosed. The method may include generating a beamforming signal on a horizontal plane related to a sound source in a three-dimensional (3D) space and modulating the beamforming signal to head for a listener in the 3D space from the sound source. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325476 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS SIGNALS - An apparatus and method for generating a wave field synthesis (WFS) signal in consideration of a height of a speaker are disclosed. The WFS signal generation apparatus may include a waveform propagation distance determination unit to determine a propagation distance of a waveform propagate from a sound source based on a height of a speaker, and a WFS signal generation unit to generate a WFS signal corresponding to the speaker using the propagation distance of the waveform. | 12-05-2013 |
20140056430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING WAVE FIELD USING SOUND BAR - Disclosed is a system and method for reproducing a wave field that reproduces a wave field using a sound bar, the system including an input signal analyzer to divide an input signal into an audio signal for a plurality of channels, and identify a position of a loud speaker corresponding to the plurality of channels, a rendering unit to process the audio signal for the plurality of channels, using a rendering algorithm based on the position, and generate an output signal, and a loud speaker array to output the output signal using loud speakers corresponding to the plurality of channels, and reproduce a wave field. | 02-27-2014 |
20140140515 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MULTIMEDIA DATA, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PLAYING MULTIMEDIA DATA - An apparatus and method for generating multimedia data and an apparatus and method for playing multimedia data are disclosed. The apparatus for generating the multimedia data may include a spatial information identification unit to identify spatial information for a plurality of channels of a multi-channel audio signal, and a multimedia data generation unit to generate multimedia data including the spatial information, and the apparatus for playing the multimedia data may include a spatial information analysis unit to analyze spatial information for a plurality of channels of a multi-channel audio signal included in multimedia data, and a multimedia data playback unit to play multimedia data, based on the spatial information. | 05-22-2014 |
20140260899 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESCRIBING AND RESTORING JUNGGANBO - Provided is a method and apparatus for describing and restoring a jungganbo, the method of describing a jungganbo including analyzing a structure of the jungganbo based on gaks, daegangs, and junggans constituting the jungganbo, and generating jungganbo structure data describing the structure of the jungganbo, based on a result of the analyzing. | 09-18-2014 |