EP1987513A2 - Procede et dispositif de codage hierarchique d'un signal audio source, procede et dispositif de decodage, programmes et signal correspondants - Google Patents
Procede et dispositif de codage hierarchique d'un signal audio source, procede et dispositif de decodage, programmes et signal correspondantsInfo
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- the field of the invention is that of the compression and transmission of digital audio signals and more specifically the coding and decoding of digital audio signals.
- the invention more specifically applies to the encoding and decoding of digital audio signals in a scalable manner (or "scalable"), which can be put into a bit stream having a hierarchical structure in layers, or levels.
- the invention proposes in particular the shaping of a bitstream, formed of frames, or access units, belonging to the different layers, within the framework of a coding / decoding system of digital audio signals.
- Hierarchical coding / decoding systems make it possible to prioritize the information to be transmitted or to decode a digital signal in the form of a bit stream.
- the entire train or only a part of the train is transmitted or decoded while ensuring that, in any case, essential information is transmitted and decoded.
- the current hierarchical audio coding techniques operate in frame-to-frame mode and the generated bit streams include access units describing signal portions as indicated in the reference document for the "MPEG-4 audio" standard referenced to ISO IEC SC29 WGIl International standard 14496-3: 2001.
- FIG. 1 shows a diagram of a bit stream 10 formatted from frames belonging to three levels 111, 112, 113 of a hierarchical coding classic.
- the frames are thus organized into a base layer 111 and two or more enhancement or enhancement layers 112 and 113 comprising frames 101 to 109 of the same duration.
- the frames of the coded bitstream 10 are read along the time axis t, and then from the lowest level to the highest enhancement level (along the Q axis). that is, frame 101 to frame 109.
- the priority orders of the frames are implicit.
- the units are equipped with a time stamp "cts" (for
- Composition Time Stamp corresponds to the clock times for which the packets must be restored after decoding by the reader terminal.
- Each unit of the same cts can be truncated (typically by a transmission device or routing), the quality restored to the decoder will be proportional to the number of layers received.
- This conventional hierarchical coding / decoding technique considers only the transmission of entities whose transmission priority imposes a single hierarchy: either the units are of equal durations or the basic hierarchy level lasts less than the other levels ( example enrichment of a CELP layer by a scalable AAC layer as indicated in the reference document concerning the "MPEG-4 audio" standard mentioned above). 3. Objectives of the invention
- the invention particularly aims to overcome these disadvantages of the prior art.
- an object of the invention is to provide a technique for encoding a different audio signal, and more effective than the known techniques.
- Another objective of the invention in at least one of its embodiments, is to provide such a technique, which makes it possible to define several strategies for shaping the bit stream. 4. Presentation of the invention
- a hierarchical encoding method of a source audio signal in the form of a data stream comprising a base and at least two levels of hierarchical enhancement, each of said levels being organized in successive frames.
- such a method is such that at least one frame of at least one enhancement level is of less duration than the duration of at least one frame of said base level, and the method comprises a step inserting in said stream at least one information representative of an order used for a set of frames corresponding to the duration of at least one frame of said base level.
- the general principle of the invention is to code hierarchically the sinusoidal components of an audio signal in the form of basic frames, at least some of which have a duration greater than at least some enhancement frames coding complementary components of the signal.
- the coding technique according to the invention makes it possible to obtain a high compression ratio and particularly for the basic level, which makes it possible to transmit the coded signal with a reduced bit rate compared with conventional coding techniques.
- the information representative of an order used is intended for the decoder to enable it to adopt the technique of demultiplexing the bitstream adapted to the multiplexing adopted. Moreover, this coding technique leads to smaller grains of the coded bitstream resulting from the coding of the audio signal.
- the duration of a base level frame is a multiple of the duration of a frame of at least one of said enhancement levels.
- base level frames can all have the same duration or different durations.
- the frames of the same level of enhancement can all have the same duration or different durations.
- the frames of different levels of enhancement can all have the same duration or different duration.
- said coding method comprises: a step of sinusoidal decomposition of said source audio signal, delivering sinusoidal components forming said basic level; a step of coding a residual signal, delivering complementary components forming at least one level of enhancement.
- the residual signal can be obtained from the difference between the source audio signal and a reconstructed signal using the sinusoidal components.
- said step of coding a residual signal implements a bank of analysis filters.
- the analysis filter bank provides a quantized version of each of the enhancement level frames.
- the encoding method comprises, for the coding of at least one of said enhancement levels, at least one of the following steps: coding of a high-frequency envelope of the spectrum of said source audio signal; encoding at least one noise energy level on at least a portion of the spectrum of said source audio signal; encoding reconstruction data of at least one complementary channel of said source audio signal from a mono signal; transmission of parameters associated with a step of duplicating the spectrum of said source audio signal.
- the high frequency envelope of the source audio signal spectrum as well as the noise energy levels on at least a portion of the spectrum of this signal are band extension information that enriches the spectrum of the signal. signal decoded especially when the high frequencies are missing.
- the method according to the invention comprises a step of constructing the stream, sequencing the frames in a so-called horizontal order, according to which a frame of said basic level is taken into account and then, for each of said levels of successively raising all the frames of said enhancement level covering the duration of said base level frame.
- the method according to the invention comprises a step of constructing said stream, sequencing said frames in a so-called vertical order, according to which a frame of said basic level is taken into account and then the first frame of each of said frames. levels of enhancement, then the following frames, starting from a lower level to a higher level in chronological order, for all of the frames of all levels of enhancement covering the duration of said frame of the basic level .
- this second embodiment of the frame scheduling makes it possible to transmit access units of short duration and thus offers the possibility of emptying the memory more quickly.
- the method according to the invention comprises a step of constructing said stream, sequencing said frames in a so-called combined order, according to which a frame of said basic level is taken into account and, for the frames of the set of enhancement levels covering the duration of said base level frame, a predetermined selection order.
- this third embodiment of the frame scheduling may consist of taking into account the base level and then several frames of an enhancement level covering the time duration of the lower level enhancement frame (in this case optionally the enhancement frames are encoded in the stream by encoding all the associated enhancement frames at the first instant before encoding the frames associated with the next instant to cover the duration of the lower level enhancement frame) and then the second frame of the first enhancement level and all the frames of all enhancement levels associated with this second enhancement frame and so on until 'taking into account all levels of enhancement covering the duration of the basic level.
- the step of constructing a stream implements at least two types of scheduling, according to at least two of the orders belonging to the group comprising the orders horizontal, vertical and combined, according to at least one selection criterion. predetermined.
- said predetermined selection criterion is obtained according to at least one of the techniques belonging to the group comprising: an analysis of said source audio signal; an analysis of the processing and / or storage capabilities of a receiver; an analysis of an available transmission rate; a selection instruction issued by a terminal; an analysis of the capacities of a transmission network of said stream.
- the invention also relates to a computer program product downloadable from a communication network and / or stored on a computer readable medium and / or executable by a microprocessor, comprising program code instructions for the implementation of the method of coding as described above.
- the invention also relates to a hierarchical encoding device of a source audio signal in the form of a data stream comprising a base level and at least two hierarchical enhancement levels, each of said levels being organized in successive frames.
- the coding device comprises coding means for said frames, delivering at least one frame of at least one enhancement level which is of a duration less than the duration of a frame of said level. base, and according to which is inserted in said stream at least one information representative of an order used for a set of frames corresponding to the duration of at least one frame of said base level.
- Such a device can in particular implement the coding method as described above.
- the coding device comprises in particular: sinusoidal decomposition means of said source audio signal, delivering sinusoidal components forming said basic level; and means for coding a residual signal, delivering complementary components forming at least one level of enhancement.
- the invention also relates to a data signal representative of a source audio signal and being in the form of a data stream comprising a basic level and at least two hierarchical enhancement levels, each of said levels being organized in successive frames. .
- At least one frame of at least one enhancement level is shorter than the duration of a frame of said base level, and said stream carries at least one information representative of an order used for scheduling said frames, for a set of frames corresponding to the duration of at least one frame of said base level.
- Such a data signal may in particular represent a data stream coded according to the coding method described above.
- This signal may of course include the various features relating to the coding method according to the invention described above.
- a data signal can be obtained by means in particular: sinusoidal decomposition means of said source audio signal, delivering sinusoidal components forming said base level; and means for coding a residual signal, delivering complementary components forming at least one level of enhancement.
- the invention also relates to a method for decoding a data signal representative of a source audio signal and being in the form of a data stream comprising a base level and at least two hierarchical enhancement levels, each of said levels being organized in successive frames, at least one frame of at least an enhancement level being less than the duration of a frame of said base level, said stream carrying at least one information representative of an order used for the scheduling of said frames, for a set of frames corresponding to the duration of at least one frame of said base level.
- the decoding method comprises a step of reconstructing said source audio signal, taking into account, for a frame of said basic level, at least two frames of at least one of said enhancement levels each extending over a portion of the duration of said base level frame.
- the method also includes a step of reading information representative of an order used for the scheduling of said frames, for a set of frames corresponding to the duration of at least one frame of said basic level, and a processing step said frames according to said order.
- the terminal adapts its demultiplexing to the multiplexing implemented at the coding.
- a decoding method is particularly suitable for decoding a data stream coded according to the coding method described above.
- such a decoding method may comprise the following steps: reception of a coded signal as described above, and extraction on the one hand of a base level formed of sinusoidal components and on the other hand of a residual signal, formed of complementary components forming at least one level of enhancement; reconstruction of a basic signal from said sinusoidal components forming said base level; reconstruction of an improved signal from said basic signal and said complementary components forming at least one level of enhancement.
- the decoding method implements steps of reconstructing a signal corresponding to the source audio signal, which is the reverse of the steps implemented during coding.
- the invention also relates to a computer program product downloadable from a communication network and / or stored on a computer readable medium and / or executable by a microprocessor, comprising program code instructions for the implementation of the decoding method previously described.
- the invention also relates to a device for decoding a data signal representative of a source audio signal and which is in the form of a data stream comprising a basic level and at least two hierarchical enhancement levels, each of said levels being organized in successive frames, at least one frame of at least one level of enhancement being of a duration less than the duration of a frame of said base level, said stream carrying at least one piece of information representative of an order used for scheduling said frames, for a set of frames corresponding to the duration of at least one frame of said base level.
- the decoding device comprises means for reconstructing said source audio signal, taking into account, for a frame of said base level, at least two frames of at least one of said enhancement levels each extending over a portion of the duration of said base level frame.
- the device also comprises means for reading the information representative of an order used for the scheduling of said frames, for a set of frames corresponding to the duration of at least one frame of said basic level, and processing means said frames according to said order.
- a decoding device can in particular implement the decoding method as described above. It is therefore adapted to receive a data stream encoded by the encoding device described above.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic of a bit stream formatted by conventional hierarchical coding
- Figure 2 shows a diagram of the processing unit of a coding device according to a preferred embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 3 is a diagram of a subband analysis module according to the preferred implementation mode of the invention
- FIG. 4 shows a simplified diagram of the processing unit of a decoding device according to the preferred implementation mode of the invention
- FIG. 5 is a complete diagram of the processing unit of the decoding device of FIG. 4
- FIGS. 6A to 6D illustrate first (FIG.
- FIGS. 7A and 7B are diagrams of the simplified general structure of the coding device (FIG. 7A) and decoding device (FIG. 7B) according to the invention.
- the hierarchical coding method (implemented by the hierarchical coding device) according to the invention is first described, allowing the coding of an initial digital audio signal in the form of a hierarchical binary train. coded (or coded digital audio signal) in the form of different layers (or levels).
- the encoding method described hereinafter comprises an analysis process which allows the estimation and coding of the sinusoidal components of a signal, the coding of a residual signal in subbands (or layers or levels), the coding information relating to band extension techniques and the coding of the conversion information of a monophonic signal into a multi-channel signal, for example the "Parametric Stereo" as defined in the reference document for the "MPEG- 4 audio "above.
- the base level is derived from a sinusoidal encoder
- the enhancement levels are derived from a band-extension encoder (eg SBR), a sinusoidal encoder, a a parametric stereo enrichment, a transform coding of the residue after subtraction of the sinusoids of the signal.
- SBR band-extension encoder
- FIG. 2 a diagram of the processing unit 20 of a coding device (as illustrated below with reference to FIG. 7A) is presented according to a preferred embodiment of the invention. 'invention.
- the initial multi-channel audio signal (consisting of m channels) is injected into a module for obtaining the mono signal 205 which delivers on the one hand a mono audio signal (for monophonic) x (t) 2051 (or more generally n channels). audio) and on the other hand reconstruction data 2052 for reconstructing one or more (m greater than n) channels, representative of the initial audio signal.
- the reconstruction data 2052 is then transmitted to the formatting module 206 described hereinafter.
- the mono audio signal x (t) 2051 is injected into a sinusoidal analysis module 201 whose purpose is to extract sinusoidal components of the mono signal. It is recalled that sinusoidal modeling is based on the principle of decomposition of a signal under a sum of sinusoids of frequency, amplitude, and variable phase in time.
- the audio signal x (t) can be written in the following form:
- a 1 (O and ⁇ j (t) respectively represent the amplitude and the phase of the partial (or sinusoidal component of the audio signal x (t)) of index i.
- phase ⁇ ; (t) of the subset of index i depends on the frequency i x of the partial and of its initial phase ⁇ oi (t) according to the following expression:
- a partial of several seconds can be advantageously modeled by a small set of parameters and for particular signals, this sinusoidal modeling called "long term” becomes more effective (in term of flow) that the modeling in sub-bands (or layers or levels) so-called “short term” which cuts the signal into a fixed length frame of a few tens of milliseconds.
- the partials of the audio signal x (t) are transmitted by the sinusoidal analysis module 201 to a shaping module 206 described hereinafter.
- a sinusoidal synthesis module 203 makes it possible, by means of a subtraction device 204, to subtract from the audio signal x (t) the sinusoidal components of the audio signal x (t) in order to obtain the residual signal r (t) .
- FIG. 3 shows a diagram of the subband analysis module 202 according to the preferred embodiment of the invention.
- This module 202 comprises an analysis filter bank (ABF) 2021.
- the analysis filter bank 2021 provides a quantized component of each of the subbands (subband 0 referenced 20221, subband 1 referenced 20222, subband 2 referenced 20223, ... in band NI referenced 20224 where N is an integer) of the residual signal r (t) which are then injected into an analysis and coding module 2023.
- the analysis and coding module 2023 delivers to the module formatting
- the formatting module 206 then builds a hierarchical (or coded) bit stream 200 composed of the frames of the following different layers (or levels): a base layer 207 (otherwise known as the basic level), referred to as "long term", describing the sinusoidal (or partial) components of the audio signal x (t) to be transmitted.
- This layer 207 typically models long units of the signal x (t) corresponding to the partials.
- Each partial is described by a start time, its duration, and the parameters of amplitude, frequency and phase variables in time.
- the size of these "long term" layers describing the sinusoidal components of the signal is less than 3 kbit / s.
- high-frequency envelope information is also transmitted in this base layer in order to adjust the amplitudes of the reconstructed sines during the implementation of the decoding method.
- sinusoidal expansion module described hereinafter.
- different enhancement layers 208 called “short-term” modeling the residual signal in sub-bands at different degrees of precision (for example, there is shown in this figure 2, the hierarchical bit stream 200 with two enhancement levels 208, however any other number of enhancement levels may be contemplated within the scope of the present invention).
- the size of each of the enhancement layers 208 is between 4 and 16 kbit / s; a so-called "short-term" band extension layer 209 modeling the high-frequency envelope of the audio signal spectrum x (t) to be encoded, as well as the subband noise energy levels on all, or a part of the spectrum of the signal x (t). High frequency envelopes for sinusoids can be transmitted in this field.
- the size of this layer 209 is of the order of a few kbit / s; a so-called "short-term" layer 210 making it possible to reconstruct the different audio signal channels (stereo or even 5.1) from the mono signal (parameters based for example on temporal and inter-oral differences).
- the size of this layer is of the order of a few kbit / s.
- the hierarchical bit stream 200 may also include ancillary information indicating to the decoding device according to the invention which implements the decoding method according to the invention (described hereinafter) the reading mode of the hierarchical bit stream 200.
- each of the layers (or levels) of the hierarchical binary train 200 can also be broken down into different levels.
- enrichment or enhancement in the form of enhancement (or enhancement) frames the sinusoids can be organized in frequency bands, each frequency band being transmitted in different units (or frames); the residual signal can be divided into different bands and precision enrichment each of these entities can be associated with as many different enrichment complementary frames; the high frequency information for the spectral enrichment can themselves be organized in different enrichment bands, for example 3.4 kHz-7 kHz then 7 kHz -15 kHz in order to gradually obtain a hi-fi band.
- the stereo information can also be organized in several layers: initially a parametric layer is transmitted and then gradually it is the difference signal of the left and right channels that is transmitted in order to recreate the stereo faithfully.
- the frames of the base layer 207 (or base level) corresponding to the sinusoidal information describe portions of the signal longer than the frames of the layers (or levels) of enhancement 208, the frames of the enhancement layers being of the same length.
- the frames of the enhancement levels may have different lengths depending on their position in the same level of enhancement or depending on the levels of enhancement to which they belong. The transmission or storage of this information is performed according to the following options (illustrated by means of FIGS. 6A to 6D described in more detail below):
- a first reading option in "vertical" mode (illustrated hereinafter in FIGS. 6A and 6C) which consists in transmitting the basic level then, successively, the first frames of all the levels of enhancement, then the other frames of the higher enhancement levels from the lower levels to the higher levels and in chronological order;
- a second "horizontal” read mode (illustrated below in FIGS. 6A and 6B) which transmits the basic level followed by all the frames of the first level of enhancement covering the duration of the basic level, followed by all frames in the second level of enhancement covering the duration of the basic level and so on until transmission of all levels of enhancement covering the duration of the basic level;
- a third reading option in "combined" mode which consists in transmitting the basic level and then several frames of an enhancement level covering the time duration of the enhancement frame of FIG. lower level (in this case optionally the enhancement frames are encoded in the stream by encoding all the associated enhancement frames at the first instant before encoding the associated frames at the next instant to cover the duration of the enhancement frame of the lower level) then the second frame of the first level of enhancement and all the frames of all enhancement levels associated with this second enhancement frame and so on until the transmission of all levels of enhancement covering the duration of the level of enhancement. based.
- the transmission order of the enhancement frames is indicated by the encoder in the stream in the form of an initialization information for the decoder.
- the hierarchical decoding method (implemented by the hierarchical decoding device) which, from the encoded (or hierarchical) received bitstream 200, makes it possible to reconstruct an audio signal is described. digital synthesized approaching the original digital audio signal previously coded.
- the hierarchical bit stream 200 obtained by means of the previously described hierarchical coding method (implemented by the processing unit 20 of the coding device written in connection with FIG. 2) is transmitted via a transmission channel and then received by the transmission device. decoding implementing the hierarchical decoding method according to the invention described below.
- FIG. 4 a simplified diagram of the processing unit 50 of a decoding device (as illustrated below with reference to FIG. 7B) is presented according to a preferred implementation mode of FIG. the invention.
- the processing unit 50 is then responsible for demultiplexing the different layers of the hierarchical bit stream and for decoding the information useful for the sinusoidal synthesis module 51, for the module for decoding the residual signal into sub-bands 52 and for the band extension modules 53 and for the stereo.
- the information extracted from the base layer (sinusoidal elements) is injected into the sinusoidal synthesis module 51, which from the information received (frequencies, phases and amplitudes of each of the partials or a set of partials) synthesizes the signal corresponding to the sum of the partials transmitted.
- the information extracted from the enhancement layers (or levels) 208 modeling the residual signal are injected into the decoding module of the residual signal in sub-bands 52.
- the signals at the output of the sinusoidal synthesis modules 51 and the decoding of the residual signal in the sub-bands 52 are summed by an addition device 54, then the sum is applied at the input of the band extension module 53.
- band extension elements modeling the high frequency envelope and the subband noise energy levels (called band extension elements) are fed into the extension module band 53 (also called spectrum enrichment module) which allows, from the signals reconstructed by the two previous modules, to synthesize the output signal.
- extension module band 53 also called spectrum enrichment module
- the module for converting the mono signal to a stereo signal is not represented in this FIG.
- FIG. 5 a complete diagram of the processing unit 50 of the decoding device according to the preferred embodiment of the invention is presented.
- a demultiplexing module 55 demultiplexes the different layers (or levels) of the hierarchical bit stream 200.
- the information contained in the base level 207 allows the sinusoidal synthesis module 51 to synthesize the different partials contained in the previously encoded initial audio signal x (t).
- the partials thus synthesized are then injected into a sinusoidal extension module 510 whose purpose is to synthesize, from the transmitted partials, partials at multiples of the frequency of each of these transmitted partials.
- This operation corresponds to an interpolation of a truncated harmonic series, according to the following equations (3) and (4). From a partial transmitted verifying the following equation: t
- ⁇ n is either equal to ⁇ 0 or equal to a random number.
- the phases and frequencies of the synthesized partials are thus directly calculated by the sinusoidal synthesis module 51, it remains to adjust their amplitudes.
- the envelope information transmitted in the hierarchical bit stream 200 in the band extension level 209 (modeling the high frequency envelope and the subband noise energy levels) makes it possible to adjust the amplitude partial sinuses thus synthesized.
- this high frequency envelope information is transmitted in the band extender layer 209 (which is a "short term” layer).
- this envelope information is transmitted in the "long-term" base layer 207 describing the sinusoidal part of the signal.
- the signal at the output of the sinusoidal extension module 510 is then injected into a sub-band analysis module 511.
- the information contained in the various enhancement layers 208 describing the residual signal r (t) in sub-bands is injected into the residual decoding module 52.
- the capacity of the transmission channel is sufficient to transmit all the enhancement layers 208 describing the residual signal r (t) (favorable case).
- the enhancement layers 208 can not all be received by the processing unit 50 (a moderately favorable case), and sometimes even none of the layers of enhancement is not received (adverse case).
- the sub-bands from residual decoding modules 52 and sub-band analysis 511 are then summed before being injected into the band extension module 53.
- the information retrieved in the hierarchical binary train 200 does not make it possible to synthesize the signal audio x (t) in full band, thus, the sub-high frequency bands are then missing.
- the role of the band extension module 53 is here to synthesize the high frequency subbands from the low frequency subbands, according to the technique described in Martin Dietz's paper, Lars Liljeryd, Kristofer Kjörling and Oliver Kunz who is titled "Spectral Band Replication - A Novel Approach in Audio Coding", 112nd AES convention, Kunststoff 2002.
- noise is added to each of the subbands by the noise generation module 56.
- the noise energy levels to be injected in each of the subbands are received in the bit stream. hierarchical 200 in the band extender layer 209.
- the resulting subband energies are then adjusted by an envelope adjustment module 57.
- the energy levels of each of the subbands are also received in the hierarchical bit stream 200 in the band extender layer 209. .
- the resulting subbands are then injected into a synthesis filter bank called a subband synthesis module 58.
- This sub-band synthesis module 58 is then summed to the sinusoidal portion coming from the sinusoidal synthesis module 51 and, optionally, from the sinusoidal extension module 510 (the means implementing this last step are not shown in Figure 5).
- the synthesized digital audio signal can thus correspond in particular to: either to the sum of the transmitted sines and possibly interpolated sines and adjusted by the sinusoidal extension module 510, and noise if none of the enhancement layers 208 (describing the residual signal in subbands) are received by the decoding device; the sum of the sines, the transmitted low frequency sub-bands and the signals duplicated at high frequencies by the band extension module 53; the sum of the sine waves transmitted, the interpolated sine waves adjusted by the sinusoidal extension module 510, the transmitted low frequency sub-bands, the low frequency duplicate sub-bands duplicated by the band extension module 53 at high frequencies, and noise formatted over the entire band, and reconstruction of m channels (eg 2 for a stereo system) from the n channels transmitted (eg 1 mono channel).
- m channels eg 2 for a stereo system
- FIGS. 6A and 6B show a first example, in accordance with the invention, of reading (FIG. 6B) the hierarchical bit stream 200 derived from the structure of FIG. 6A.
- This first example of reading says
- the hierarchical bit stream 200 includes a base level 207, and first, second and third raising levels 208 to 210.
- a 00 or 40 frame of the base level 207 is followed by:
- This first reading example thus consists of reading the basic level followed by all the frames of the first level of enhancement covering the duration of the basic level, followed by all the frames of the second level of enhancement covering the duration of the level. basic and so on until the transmission of all levels of enhancement covering the duration of the basic level.
- a frame corresponding to a level of enhancement n is read after the level of enhancement n-1 is completely read for the duration of the base level.
- Cts for composition time stamp fields, which delimit system level layers and make it possible to indicate to the decoding device the instant of composition of the transmitted units, are integrated in bit stream 640.
- FIG. 6C a second example according to the reading invention (FIG. 6C) of the hierarchical bit stream 200 of FIG. 6A.
- This second example called “vertical” offers the possibility of transmitting access units of short duration and thus offers the possibility of performing a low delay decoding.
- This second reading example (FIG. 6C) consists in reading the first frame of the basic level then the first frames of the first, second and third raising levels, then the second frames of the first, second and third raising levels and so on. in order to cover the duration of the basic level. Then, reading the second frame of the base level is implemented and so on.
- the second demultiplexed hierarchical bit stream 650 is thus obtained.
- Appendix 1 presents a table illustrating a syntax for reading the information concerning the mode of demultiplexing or reading (for example the first and second examples of reading above) that must adopt the decoding device.
- this reading mode is indicated in a 2-bit field called "framingMode".
- the decoding device adopts the first example of reading, called “horizontal” as previously described in relation with FIG. 6B (this reading mode is implicit);
- the field framingMode takes the value OxO1
- the decoding device adopts the second example of reading, called “vertical” as previously described in relation with FIG. 6C (this reading mode is implicit);
- the framingMode field is set to 0x10, then the decoder analyzes an additional field (called "advancedFraminglnformation") that specifies the read mode.
- the duration of each enhancement level is known to the decoder using the configuration information specific to the different fields (sinusConfig (), transformConfigO, BandwidthExtensionConfigO, StereoExtension ()).
- the coding method of the invention can be implemented in many devices, such as stream servers, intermediate nodes of a network, transmitters, data storage devices, etc.
- FIG. 7A The simplified general structure of such a coding device is illustrated schematically in FIG. 7A. It comprises a memory M 1000, a processing unit 1010 (such as the processing unit 20 described with reference to FIG. 2), equipped for example with a microprocessor, and driven by the computer program Pg 1020.
- a processing unit 1010 such as the processing unit 20 described with reference to FIG. 2
- Pg 1020 the computer program
- the code instructions of the computer program 1020 are for example loaded into a RAM memory before being executed by the processor of the processing unit 1010.
- the processing unit 1010 receives at input 1050 a audio signal 1030.
- the processing unit 1010 implements the method described above, according to the instructions of the program Pg 1020.
- the processing unit 1010 outputs 1060 a hierarchical bit stream 1040 (corresponding to the coded audio signal).
- the decoding method of the invention can be implemented in many devices, such as stream servers, intermediate nodes of a network, transmitters, data storage devices, etc.
- FIG. 7B The simplified general structure of such a decoding device is illustrated schematically in FIG. 7B. It comprises a memory M 1100, a processing unit 1110 (such as the processing unit 50 described in connection with FIG. 5), equipped for example with a microprocessor, and controlled by the computer program Pg 1120.
- a processing unit 1110 such as the processing unit 50 described in connection with FIG. 5
- a microprocessor equipped for example with a microprocessor
- the code instructions of the computer program 1120 are for example loaded into a RAM memory before being executed by the processor of the processing unit 1110.
- the processing unit 1110 receives at the input 1150 a hierarchical binary stream 1130.
- the microprocessor ⁇ P of the processing unit 1110 implements the method described above, according to the instructions of the program Pg 1120.
- the processing unit 1110 outputs 1160 a decoded audio signal 1140.
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