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Method and an apparatus for decoding an audio signal

US8139773B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 28, 2010
Grant dateMar 20, 2012
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Expiry dateAug 15, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04S2420/03
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus and method for receiving a downmix signal including at least one object signal, and a bitstream including object information and downmix channel level difference. When the downmix signal includes at least two object signals, a relation identifier indicating whether two object signals are related is extracted, and whether the two object signals correspond to stereo object signals is identified using the downmix channel level difference and the relation identifier generating mix information including a first element and a second element using a single user input, and generating at least one of downmix processing information and multi-channel information based on the object information and the mix information. Further, the first element is applied to the left object signal to output a first channel, the second element is applied to the right object signal to output a second channel, and the first element is conversely related to the second element.

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