EP1964442B1 - Apparatus and method for synthesizing three output channels using two input channels - Google Patents

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EP1964442B1
EP1964442B1 EP05822900A EP05822900A EP1964442B1 EP 1964442 B1 EP1964442 B1 EP 1964442B1 EP 05822900 A EP05822900 A EP 05822900A EP 05822900 A EP05822900 A EP 05822900A EP 1964442 B1 EP1964442 B1 EP 1964442B1
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  • the present invention is related to multi-channel synthesizers and, particularly, to devices generating three or more output channels using two stereo input channels.
  • Multi-channel audio material is becoming more and more popular also in the consumer home environment. This is mainly due to the fact that movies on DVD offer 5.1 multi-channel sound and therefore even home users frequently install audio playback systems, which are capable of reproducing multi-channel audio.
  • Such a setup consists e.g. of 3 speakers L, C, R in the front, 2 speakers Ls, Rs in the back and a low frequency enhancement channel LFE and provides several well-known advantages over 2-channel stereo reproduction, e.g.:
  • legacy audio content which consists only of two (“stereo") audio channels, e.g. on Compact Discs (CDs).
  • a good LR to L'C'R' conversion solution should fulfill the following requirements:
  • Fig. 6 illustrates a time waveform of a signal 60 processed by a processor having a maximum positive threshold 61a and a maximum negative threshold 61b.
  • the maximum positive threshold and the maximum negative thresholds may be +1 and - 1.
  • the maximum positive threshold will be 32767 corresponding to 2 15 -1
  • the maximum negative threshold will be -32768 corresponding to -2 15 .
  • a time waveform signal is represented by a sequence of samples, each sample being a digital number between -32768 and +32767, it is easily clear that higher numbers can be obtained, when, for a certain time instance, the first channel has a quite high value and the second channel also has a quite high value, and when these quite high values are added together.
  • the maximum number obtained by this adding together of two channels can be 65536.
  • the digital signal processor is not able to represent this high number. Instead, the digital processor will only represent numbers equal to the maximum positive threshold or the maximum negative threshold.
  • the digital signal processor performs clipping in that a number higher or equal to the maximum positive threshold or the maximum negative threshold is replaced by a number equal to the maximum positive threshold and the maximum negative threshold so that, with regard to Fig. 6 ., the illustrated situation appears.
  • the waveform 60 does not have its natural (sine) shape, but is flattened or clipped.
  • this clipped waveform is evaluated from a spectral point of view, it becomes clear that this time domain clipping results in strong harmonic components caused by a high gradient magnitude at the beginning and the end of the clipping time portion 62.
  • each amplifier/loudspeaker combination also has only a limited linear range, and, when this linear range is exceeded by a processed signal, also a kind of clipping takes place, which can be avoided using the inventive concept.
  • a simple solution to overcome this problem is to scale down all channels equally to a level where none of the channel signal (especially the Center signal) exceeds the 0 dBFS limit. This can be done statically by a predefined fixed value. In this case the fixed value must also be valid for worst case situations, where the Left and Right channel have maximum levels. For the average LR to L'C'R' conversion this leads to a significantly quieter L'C'R' version than the original stereo LR, which is undesirable, especially when users are switching between stereo and multi-channel reproduction. This behavior can be observed at commercially available matrix decoders (Dolby ProLogicII and Logic7 Decoder) that can be used as LR to L'C'R' converters.
  • Dolby ProLogicII and Logic7 Decoder Dolby ProLogicII and Logic7 Decoder
  • the downscaling problem is undesirable, since it reduces the level or volume of a sound signal compared to the level of the original signal.
  • a scaling factor equal to 0.5. This results in a strongly reduced output level of the multi-channel signal compared to the original signal.
  • the (legacy) stereo signal will appear to a listener very loud, when it is replayed using the same amplification setting of the amplifier a set for the multichannel reproduction.
  • a user would have to think about reducing the amplification setting of its amplifier before switching from a multi-channel representation of a stereo signal to a true stereo representation of the stereo signal in order to not damage her or his ears or equipment.
  • the present invention is based on the finding that, for overcoming the clipping problem and for nevertheless achieving the advantages incurred by replaying a stereo signal using three or more channels of a multi-channel setup, the center channel is generated as usual, i.e., receives sound events located in the middle between the left and the right loudspeakers, which is also called a "real center" rendering.
  • the real center would come into the clipping range, only a portion of the energy of the signal components representing the events in the middle of the audio setup are fed into the center channel. The remainder of the energy of these sound events is fed back into the first and third (or left and right) channels or remains there from the beginning.
  • the center channel is scaled down the level below or equal to the maximum level possible without clipping. Nevertheless, the missing part/energy of the signal, which cannot be rendered by the center channel is reproduced with the left channel and the right channel as a "virtual center” or "phantom center”.
  • the signal of the real center and the virtual center is then acoustically combined during playback recreating an intended center without clipping.
  • This "mixing" of the real center and the virtual center results in an improved more stable front image of a stereo audio signal, i.e., in an increased sweet spot, although the sweet spot is not as large as when there would not be a phantom center at all.
  • the inventive process does not have any clipping artifacts, since the remainder of the energy not being processable within the second channel due to the clipping problem is not lost but is rendered by the original left and right channels.
  • the energy of the left and right channels in the multi-channel setup is lower than the energy in the original left and right channels, since the energy of the center channel is drawn from the left and right channels. Therefore, even when, in accordance with the present invention, a remaining part of the energy is fed back to the left and right output channels, there will never exist a clipping problem within these channels.
  • a further advantage of the present invention is that the inventive signal generation is performed in a way that, in a preferred embodiment, the total electrical or acoustical energy of the generated three output channels (and optionally generated additional output channels such as Ls, Rs, Cs, LFE, ...) is preserved with respect to the energy of the original stereo signal.
  • the same overall loudness irrespective of the way of rendering the signal, i.e., whether the signal is rendered using a stereo setup having only two speakers or whether the signal is rendered using a multi-channel setup having more than two speakers, can be guaranteed.
  • the inventive signal generation and distribution of sound energy to the center channel and the left and right channels is dynamically applied only if clipping would be unavoidable, i.e., the second center channel is completely unchanged in situations, which are not effected by clipping, i.e., when sampling values of the second channel remain below or are only equal to the maximum threshold.
  • the resulting acoustic combination of the "real center” and the "phantom center” produces a signal which is much closer to the optimal three channel configuration, i.e., three channels without clipping or three channels in which sampling values without any min/max threshold are allowable.
  • the inventive sound image is, therefore, in preferred embodiments neither different in level compared to the stereo input signal nor non-authentic as would be the case when using a limiter or a simple clipper.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a preferred embodiment of an inventive apparatus for synthesizing three output channels using two input channels, wherein a second channel of the three output channels is intended for a speaker in an audio replay setup, which is positioned between two speakers, which are intended to receive the first output channel and the third output channel.
  • the input channels are indicated by 10a, which channel can be for example the left channel L, and 10b for the second channel, which can be the right channel R.
  • the output channels are indicated as 12a for the right channel, 12b for center channel and 12c for the left channel. Additional output channels can be generated such as a left surround output channel 14a, a right surround output channel 14b and a low frequency enhancement channel 14c.
  • the arrangement of the corresponding speakers for these channels is shown in Fig. 5 .
  • In the middle of these speakers 12a, 12b, 12c, 14a, 14b is a sweet spot 50. When a listener is positioned within the sweet spot, then he or she will have an optimum sound impression.
  • center surround channel 51 C s which is positioned between the left surround channel 14a and the right surround channel 14b.
  • the signal for the center surround channel 51 can be calculated using the same process as calculating the signal for the center channel 12b. Additionally, the inventive methods can, therefore, also be applied to the calculation of the center surround channel in order to avoid clipping in the center surround channel.
  • inventive process is usable for each audio channel constellation, in which two input channels intended for two different spatial positions in a replay setup are used and in which three output channels are generated using these two input channels, wherein the second channel of the three channels is located between two additional speakers in the replay setup, which are provided with the first and the third input channel signals.
  • the inventive synthesizer apparatus of Fig. 1 includes an input channel analyzer 15 for analyzing the two input channels in order to determine signal components which occur in both input channels. These signal components which occur in both input channels can be used to build the real center channel, i. e. can be rendered via the center channel C shown in Fig. 5 .
  • a stereo signal includes a lot of such monophonic signal components such as a speaker person or, when music signals are considered, a singer or a solo instrument positioned in front of an orchestra and, therefore, positioned in front of the audience.
  • the inventive synthesizer apparatus additionally includes a time and frequency selective and, furthermore signal dependent signal generator 16 for generating the three output channels 12a, 12b, 12c using the two input channels 10a, 10b and information on detected signal components occurring in both input channels as provided via line 13.
  • the inventive signal generator is operative to feed detected signal components at least partly into the second channel.
  • the generator is operative to only feed a portion of the detected signal components in the second channel, when there exists a situation, in which a complete feeding of the detected signal components would result in exceeding the maximum threshold.
  • the second output channel has a time portion, which only includes a part of the detected signal components to avoid clipping, while in a different portion of the second output channel, the complete detected signal components have been fed into the second output channel.
  • the remainder of the detected signal components are included in the first and third output channels and, therefore, form the "phantom center" when these channels are rendered via the speaker setup for example shown in Fig. 5 .
  • the "portion" of the detected signal components located in the second channel, and the remainder of the detected signal components located in the first and third channels can be an energy portion or frequency portion or any other portion, so that the second channel only includes a portion of the detected signal components and will not have any value above the maximum threshold and will, therefore, not induce any clipping distortions.
  • Fig. 2a illustrates a preferred embodiment of the inventive signal analyzer 16 of Fig. 1 .
  • the signal analyzer includes a 2-3-upmixer 16 performing an upmixing process controlled by the input channels analyzer 15 of Fig. 1 .
  • the output of the 2-3-upmixer L, R, C are upmixed channels.
  • channel C might be subject to clipping, since channel C is generated using an adding process, in which signal components from the left channel and from the right channel are added together.
  • the center channel C is input into a clipping detector 16b, which feeds a post processor 16c, which also receives information on detected signal components.
  • the clipping detector 16b is operative to examine the time wave form of the center channel 12c.
  • the clipping detector can be constructed in different ways.
  • the clipping detector 16b simply examines the time waveform to see, whether there are higher numbers than the maximum threshold of the subsequent processing stage.
  • the post processor 16c is activated via activation line 16d to start post processing such that the energy of the center channel is reduced and the energy of the left and right channels is increased so that the three output channels 12a, 12b, 12c are finally output by the post processor 16c.
  • the LR to LCR conversion process is done as usual.
  • the internal first-stage center channel signal 20b is analyzed to check, whether clipping would occur if it has to be output as an external signal such as in an AES/EBU or as SPDIF format. When this happens, a part of the signal 20b is removed in the post processor 16c resulting in a modified center channel signal 12b and distributed instead to the intermediate left and right channels 20a, 20c as a "phantom center" contribution. After the postprocessing, the center channel signal 12b is again below 0 dBFS.
  • a preferred embodiment of the post processor 16c is shown in Fig. 2b .
  • the center channel 20b after the upmixer 16a is input into a part extractor 25.
  • the part extractor receives information 13 on detected signal components and a control signal via line 16d from the clipping detector, which may also include an indication of an amount of extraction.
  • the amount of extraction per iteration step may be fixed independent of any occurring clipping, and an iterative trial/error process can be applied to extract increasing amounts of the detected signal components in a step-by-step fashion until the clipping detector 16b does not detect any clipping anymore.
  • the modified center channel 12b is output by the part extractor, and the remainder of the detected signal components corresponding to the extracted part have to be re-distributed to the left and right channels 20c, 20a output by the upmixer after multiplying by 0.5.
  • the post processor includes two multipliers 26 in each branch or a single multiplier before branching, and a left adder 27a and a right adder 27b.
  • the left and right channels 20a, 20c do not include any "phantom center". However, by adding the extracted components (after multiplication by 0.5) to these channels, a phantom center is added to the left and right channels.
  • the input channels are input into a controllable 2-3-upmixer receiving information on detected signal components for generating three output channels in a first iteration step controlled by an iteration controller 30.
  • the first step will be equal to the upmixer operation in Fig. 2a , i.e., the center channel 20b can have clipping problems. Such a clipping situation will be detected by a clipping detector 16b.
  • a clipping detector 16b In contrast to the Fig.
  • the clipping detector 16b controls the upmixer 16a in a feed-back way via the upmixer control line 31 to change the upmixing rule in a certain way so that the generated center channel 20b receives, after one or more iteration steps as controlled by the iteration controller 30, only an allowed portion of the detected signal components so that no clipping occurs anymore.
  • the Fig. 3 embodiment illustrates an iterative process.
  • the up-mixer operation is done as usual.
  • a detector 16b checks, whether clipping occurs. When clipping is detected, this time frame is processed again, now using the re-mapping process and using re-routing of a part of the center signal energy to the left and right channels as a phantom center contribution.
  • the Fig. 4 embodiment completely operates in the parameter domain.
  • an up-mixer parameter calculator 40 is provided, which is connected to a parameter changer 41.
  • a clipping detector 42 is provided, which is operative to examine the original left and right channels or the calculated up-mixer parameters to find out, whether clipping will occur or not after a straight forward up-mix process.
  • the clipping detector 42 When the clipping detector 42 detects a clipping danger, it controls a parameter change 41 via a control line 44 to provide changed up-mix parameters, which are then provided to a straight-forward up-mixer 16a, which then generates the first, second, and third output channels so that no clipping occurs in the second channel and, for a time frame, in which the clipping detector 42 has originally detected a clipping problem, the left and right channels 12c, 12a, have a phantom center contribution.
  • the inventive process is carried out based on processing parameters that are used for deriving the output signals 20a, 20b, 20c, or 12a, 12b, 12c from the input stereo signals.
  • processing parameters that are used for deriving the output signals 20a, 20b, 20c, or 12a, 12b, 12c from the input stereo signals.
  • the clipping detection and the manipulation of signal levels or part of it are based on the processing parameters.
  • the inventive process is carried out on actual audio channel signals that were already created for the center channel after a possible clipping could be detected.
  • the inventive clipping detection/control can be performed by a post-processing.
  • the intended conversion parameters are analyzed and modified according to the inventive concept to avoid clipping after the synthesis of the actual output audio signals.
  • An alternative way to control the parameter change 41 is via an iterative way. Intended conversion parameters are analyzed. When, after the synthesis of the real audio signal, clipping may occur, the conversion parameters are modified. Then, the process is again started and finally, the output channel signals are synthesized without any clipping and with real center and phantom center contributions in the corresponding channels.
  • Fig. 8 illustrates such a preferred input channels analyzer 15.
  • a windowing block 80 so that, at the output of block 80, there is, on line 81a, a block of values of the left channel and, on line 81b, a block of values of the right channel.
  • a frequency analysis is performed for each block individually.
  • a frequency analyzer 82 is provided for each channel.
  • the frequency analyzer can be any device for generating a frequency domain representation of a time domain signal.
  • a frequency analyzer can include a short-time Fourier transform, an FFT algorithm, or an MDCT transform or any other transform device.
  • the frequency analyzer block 82 may also include a subband filter bank for generating for example 32 subband channels or a higher or lower number of subband channels from a block of input signal values.
  • the functionality of the framing device 80 and the frequency analysis block 82 can be implemented in a single digitally implemented subband filter bank.
  • a band-wise cross correlation is performed as indicated by device 84.
  • the cross-correlator determines a cross correlation measure between corresponding bands, i.e., bands having the same frequency index.
  • the cross correlation measure determined by block 84 can have a value between 0 and 1, wherein 0 indicates no correlation, and wherein 1 indicates full correlation.
  • the device 84 outputs a low cross correlation measure, this means that the left and right signal components in the respective band are different from each other so that this band does not include signal components occurring in both bands, which should be inserted into a center channel.
  • the cross correlation measure is high, indicating that the signals in both bands are very similar to each other, then this band has a signal component occurring in the left and right channels so that this band should be inserted into the center channel.
  • the preferred embodiment of the inventive input channels analyzer includes a band-wise energy calculator 85, which calculates the energy in each band and which outputs an energy similarity measure indicating, whether the energies in the corresponding bands are similar to each other or different from each other.
  • the energy similarity measure output by device 85 and the cross correlation measure output by device 84 are both input into a final decision stage 86, which comes to a conclusion that, in a certain frame, a certain band i occurs in both channels or not.
  • the decision stage 86 determines that the signal occurs in both channels, then this signal portion is fed into the center channel to generate a "real center”.
  • Fig. 8 shows an embodiment for implementing the input channels analyzer. Additional embodiments are known in the art and, for example, illustrated in " Spatial enhancement of audio recordings", Jot and Avendano, 23rd International AES Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 23-25, 2003 . Particularly, other methods of analyzing two channels to find signal components in these channels include statistical or analytical analyzing methods such as the principle component analysis or the independent subspace analysis or other methods known in the art of audio analysis. All these methods have in common that they detect signal components occurring in both channels, which should be fed into a center channel to generate a real center.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates an energy situation before and after a two-three upmix process has been implemented by the two-three upmixer 16a in the Figures.
  • a left input channel L illustrated at 70 in Fig. 7 has a certain energy.
  • the right input channel of the two stereo input channels has a different (lower) energy as illustrated at 71. It is assumed that the channel analyzer has found out that there are signal components occurring in both channels. These signal components occurring in both channels have an energy as illustrated at 72 in Fig. 7 .
  • the energy of the center channel would be above an energy limit, wherein the energy limit at least roughly illustrates that the signal having such a high energy has amplitude values above the amplitude maximum threshold. Therefore, only a portion of the energy 72 is input into the real center, while the exceeding portion is equally (re-) distributed to the synthesized left and right channels L' and R' as illustrated by arrows 76.
  • the inventive method can be implemented in hardware or in software.
  • the implementation can be performed using a digital storage medium, in particular a disk or a CD having electronically readable control signals stored thereon, which can cooperate with a programmable computer system such that the inventive method is performed.
  • the present invention is, therefore, a computer program product with a program code stored on a machine-readable carrier, the program code being configured for performing the inventive method, when the computer program product runs on a computer.
  • the invention is also a computer program having a program code for performing the inventive method, when the computer program runs on a computer.

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