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Method and device for improving the rendering of multi-channel audio signals

US9589571B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation · US

Inventors

Olivier Wuebbolt · Hannover, DE
Johannes Boehm · Göttingen, DE
Peter Jax · Hannover, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 19, 2013
Grant date	Mar 7, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 19, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04S2420/11
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Conventional audio compression technologies perform a standardized signal transformation, independent of the type of the content. Multi-channel signals are decomposed into their signal components, subsequently quantized and encoded. This is disadvantageous due to lack of knowledge on the characteristics of scene composition, especially for e.g. multi-channel audio or Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA) content. An improved method for encoding pre-processed audio data comprises encoding the pre-processed audio data, and encoding auxiliary data that indicate the particular audio pre-processing. An improved method for decoding encoded audio data comprises determining that the encoded audio data had been pre-processed before encoding, decoding the audio data, extracting from received data information about the pre-processing, and post-processing the decoded audio data according to the extracted pre-processing information.

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