Arnoldus Werner Johannes Oomen

Converting decoded sub-band signal into a stereo signal

Synthesizing an output audio signal is provided on the basis of an input audio signal, the input audio signal comprising a plurality of input sub-band signals, wherein at least one input sub-band signal is transformed (T) from the sub-band domain to the frequency domain to obtain at least one respective transformed signal, wherein the at least one input sub-band signal is delayed and transformed (D, T) to obtain at least one respective transformed delayed signal, wherein at least two processed signals are derived (P)from the at least one transformed signal and the at least one transformed delayed signal, wherein the processed signals are inverse transformed (T−1) from the frequency domain to the sub-band domain to obtain respective processed sub-band signals, and wherein the output audio signal is synthesized from the processed sub-band signals.

Transmission system with improved encoder and decoder that prevents multiple representations of signal components from occurring

In a sinusoidal audio encoder it is known to use different time scales for analyzing different parts of the frequency spectrum. In prior art encoders sub-band filtering is used to split the input signal into a number of sub bands. By splitting the input signal into sub-bands, it can happen that a signal component at the boundary of two sub-bands results in a representation in both sub-band signals. This double representation of signal components can lead to several problems when coding these components. According to the present invention it is proposed to use preventing means (46, 48, 58, 68; 88, 92, 96) to avoid signal components to have multiple representations.