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Multichannel decorrelation in spatial audio coding

US8015018B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 24, 2005
Grant dateSep 6, 2011
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Expiry dateSep 22, 2028

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L19/008
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Each of N audio signals are filtered with a unique decorrelating filter (38) characteristic, the characteristic being a causal linear time-invariant characteristic in the time domain or the equivalent thereof in the frequency domain, and, for each decorrelating filter characteristic, combining (40, 44, 46), in a time and frequency varying manner, its input (Zi) and output (Z-i) signals to provide a set of N processed signals (X i). The set of decorrelation filter characteristics are designed so that all of the input and output signals are approximately mutually decorrelated. The set of N audio signals may be synthesized from M audio signals by upmixing (36), where M is one or more and N is greater than M.

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