Digital encoding process
A digital encoding process for transmitting and/or storing acoustical signals and, in particular, music signals, in which scanned values of the acoustical signal are transformed by means of a transformation or a filter b
Patent Number
US 5579430
Status
Active
Filing Date
January 26, 1995
Grant Date
November 26, 1996
Expiration
~January 2015 (estimated)
Claims
36
Assignee
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV
Inventors
Bernhard Grill, Karl-Heinz Brandenburg, Thomas Sporer, Bernd Kurten, Ernst Eberlein
Citations
108 forward · 9 backward
What it covers
A digital encoding process for transmitting and/or storing acoustical signals and, in particular, music signals, in which scanned values of the acoustical signal are transformed by means of a transformation or a filter bank into a sequence of second scanned values, which reproduce the spectral composition of the acoustical signal, and the sequence of second scanned values is quantized in accordance with the requirements with varying precision and is partially or entirely encoded by an optimum encoder, and in which a corresponding decoding and inverse transformation takes place during the reproduction. An encoder is utilized in a manner in which the occurrence probability of the quantized spectral coefficient is correlated to the length of the code in such a way that the more frequently the spectral coefficient occurs, the shorter the code word. A code word and, if needed, a supplementary code is allocated to several elements of the sequence or to a value range in order to reduce the size of the table of the encoder. A portion of the code words of variable length are arranged in a raster, and the remaining code words are distributed in the gaps still left so that the beginning of a code word can be more easily found without completely decoding or in the event of faulty transmission.
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