Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Including amplitude or volume control
Patent
1996-02-07
1999-05-04
Kuntz, Curtis A.
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Including amplitude or volume control
381106, 381107, 704204, 704225, 704230, H03G 300
Patent
active
059012340
ABSTRACT:
A signal encoding method and apparatus for encoding an acoustic signal, a recording medium having the encoded signals, a method for transmitting the encoded signals, and a signal decoding apparatus for decoding the encoded signals, are disclosed. With the encoding apparatus, an attack portion detection circuit detects an attack portion of the waveform acoustic signal where the waveform elements of the waveform acoustic signal rise sharply. A gain control circuit controls the gain for waveform elements at least upstream of the attack portion using a gain control amount adaptively selected from plural gain control amounts specified by a pre-set power of 2. A forward orthogonal transform circuit transforms the waveform acoustic signal into plural spectral components. A normalization and encoding circuit normalizes, quantizes and encodes the gain control information an plural spectral components. With the encoding apparatus, the encoding efficiency may be improved without complicating the construction, while the pre-echo may be suppressed effectively.
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Sonohara Mito
Tsutsui Kyoya
Kuntz Curtis A.
Nguyen Duc
Sony Corporation
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