WO2011071322A2 - Dispositif et procédé de communication acoustique - Google Patents

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WO2011071322A2
WO2011071322A2 PCT/KR2010/008811 KR2010008811W WO2011071322A2 WO 2011071322 A2 WO2011071322 A2 WO 2011071322A2 KR 2010008811 W KR2010008811 W KR 2010008811W WO 2011071322 A2 WO2011071322 A2 WO 2011071322A2
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  • the present invention relates generally to a method and a device for acoustic communication in which digital data is transmitted among mobile devices using acoustic signals, and in particular, to a method and a device for acoustic communication using a psychoacoustic model.
  • Acoustic communication is one of the possible ways to transfer digital information between mobile devices.
  • An advantage of acoustic communication is that the data communication protocols can be implemented on existing devices using only software without having to add any hardware elements such as antenna and RF front-end, as required for radio-based communication systems.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a conventional method for mixing an audio program with an acoustic communication signal.
  • a device 100 for implementing such method includes an acoustic communication signal generator 110, a combiner 120 and a speaker 130.
  • a low level communication signal such as a spread spectrum signal is simply added to the audio program such as music, speech, alarm sound or the like.
  • the audio program and the acoustic communication signal output from the acoustic communication signal generator 110 are combined (or mixed) by the combiner 120.
  • the combined signal is radiated in a form of sound waves through the speaker 130.
  • a better method such as the type described by Y. Nakashima, et al., in Evaluation and Demonstration of Acoustic OFDM, Proc. Fortieth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2006. ACSSC 2006, pp. 1747-1751, is based on replacement of high frequency components of speech/music audio program with spectrally shaped communication signal.
  • FIG. 2 is illustrates a method for generating an audio signal mixed with an acoustic communication signal using the known frequency replacement technology.
  • a device 200 for implementing such method includes a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) block 210, a band splitter 220, an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) block 230, a Forward Error Correction (FEC) coding block 240, an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulator 250, a combiner 260 and a speaker 270.
  • FFT Fast Fourier Transform
  • IFFT Inverse Fast Fourier Transform
  • FEC Forward Error Correction
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • the FFT block 210 performs FFT on the original audio signal (or program) such as music or speech.
  • the band splitter 220 divides the FFT audio signal into high frequency bins and low frequency bins, outputs the low frequency bins to the IFFT block 230, and outputs the high frequency bins to the OFDM modulator 250.
  • the IFFT block 230 performs the IFFT on the original audio signal, from which the high frequency bins are removed.
  • the FEC coding block 240 performs FEC coding on the input digital data and outputs the data.
  • the OFDM modulator 250 performs OFDM on the coded digital data according to the high frequency bins and outputs the data, and the acoustic communication signal from the OFDM modulator has a spectral envelope which is shaped similar to the high frequency bins. In other words, the high frequency bins are replaced with the acoustic communication signal.
  • FIGS. 3a and 3b illustrate signals which are generated according to the frequency replacement technologies.
  • FIG. 3a shows the frequency spectrum of an original audio signal 330
  • FIG. 3b shows the frequency spectrum of a modified audio signal 330a which has a replacement acoustic communication signal.
  • the frequency is shown along the horizontal axis
  • the signal strength is shown along the vertical axis.
  • the original audio signal 330 is divided into the high frequency bins (or region) 320 and the low frequency bins 310 based on frequency division.
  • the low frequency bins 310 of the modified audio signal 330a are the same as those of the original audio signal, and the high frequency bins 320 of the original audio signal are replaced with the acoustic communication signal 325 of the modified audio signal.
  • This method allows for simple implementation of an acoustic signal receiver since the original audio signal and the acoustic communication signal are transmitted in separate frequency bands. This method, however, has two drawbacks.
  • the method degrades the quality of the original audio signal, i.e. themusic/speech signal, because there is a sharp transition in frequency domain between the original audio signal and the acoustic communication signal, see FIG. 3b.
  • this method fails to fully utilize available signal bandwidth, since the acoustic communication signal only concentrates in relatively high audio frequencies. Consequently, if the music/speech audio program does not contain high frequency bins, or if the receiving device microphone is not capable of capturing the entire wideband audio spectrum, including high frequency bins, the acoustic data communication shall be impossible (even with reduced bit rate).
  • the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems occurring in the prior art, and an aspect of the present invention provides a device and a method for acoustic communication in which a steep boundary between the original audio signal and the replacement acoustic communication signal can be avoided.
  • Another aspect of the present invention provides a device and a method for acoustic communication making use of the entire spectrum of the original audio signal.
  • an acoustic communication method that includes filtering an audio signal to attenuate a high frequency section of the audio signal; generating a residual signal which corresponds to a difference between the audio signal and the filtered signal; generating a psychoacoustic mask for the audio signal based on a predetermined psychoacoustic model; generating a psychoacoustic spectrum mask by combining the residual signal with the psychoacoustic mask; generating an acoustic communication signal by modulating digital data according to the acoustic signal spectrum mask; and combining the acoustic communication signal with the filtered signal.
  • the method and the device for acoustic communication according to the invention provide at least the following advantages.
  • the audio sensitivity of distorted signals caused by inserting the acoustic communication signal into the audio program can be reduced.
  • the entire bandwidth is effectively used to allow data transmission even if a receiving microphone does not detect the entire wideband audio spectrum, or if the audio program does not include high frequency bins.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a conventional method for mixing an audio program with an acoustic communication signal
  • FIG. 2 illustrates an audio signal mixed with an acoustic communication signal using the known frequency replacement technology
  • FIGS. 3a and 3b illustrate signals which are generated according to the frequency replacement technologies
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a device for performing an acoustic communication according to an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIGS. 5a to 5f illustrate signal spectrums in different steps of the signal generating procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a method for calculating a frequency masking threshold and for placing the acoustic communication signal below the threshold
  • FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating main steps of a method for calculating a psychoacoustic mask according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the original audio signal such as music or speech
  • a high-shelf filter which gradually attenuates the high frequency bins. See for example, FIG. 5b as described herein.
  • the difference between the original signal and the attenuated signal is calculated.
  • the spectral shape of such residual signal is stored.
  • so-called psychoacoustic (or frequency) masking threshold is calculated according to spectral shape of the original audio signal. The calculation of the psychoacoustic masking threshold is based on the fact that in the presence of strong audio signals on some frequencies sound signals on nearby frequency may become inaudible for an average listener. This effect is illustrated and explained with reference to FIG. 6.
  • This effect is known as a frequency masking effect and is widely used in the lossy audio compression algorithms in which the signal frequency bins below the audibility threshold are removed.
  • the frequency masking threshold is calculated in order to place the acoustic communication signal below the masking threshold, thus making it inaudible.
  • FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a device for performing acoustic communication according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIGS. 5a to 5f are diagrams illustrating signal spectrums in different steps of the signal generating procedure according to the present invention.
  • a device 400 includes a high frequency attenuation filter 410, a first combiner 422, an FFT block 430, an envelope estimation block 440, a psychoacoustic modeling block 450, a second combiner 424, an object encoding block 460, a multicarrier modulator 470, a third combiner 426 and a speaker 480.
  • FIG. 5a shows a frequency spectrum of the original audio signal 510.
  • the frequency is shown along the horizontal axis, and the signal strength is shown along the vertical axis.
  • the outlines, i.e. envelopes, of the frequency spectrums are illustrated, these envelopes include a number of frequency bins.
  • the high frequency attenuation filter 410 has filter response characteristics, so that the filter gradually reduces spectral energy in the medium and high frequency region.
  • FIG. 5b shows the filter response characteristics 520 of the high frequency attenuation filter 410, in which the frequency is shown along the horizontal axis and the signal transmittance is shown along the vertical axis. Referring to FIG. 5b, it can be seen that the high frequency attenuation filter 410 passes most signals in the low frequency region without any change and reduces the signals gradually in the medium and high frequency region.
  • the original audio signal is filtered by the high frequency attenuation (or high-shelf) filter 410.
  • the high frequency attenuation (or high-shelf) filter 410 As shown in FIG. 5b there is no steep cut-off frequency (for example, see FIG. 5b for reference) in the filter response characteristics. Therefore, the spectral distortions introduced by the high frequency attenuation filter 410 are less annoying to the human ear.
  • FIG. 5c shows the frequency spectrums of the original audio signal 510 and the filtered signal 530.
  • the original audio signal and the filtered signal are input to the first combiner 422, which outputs a difference, i.e. residual signal, between the original signal and the filtered signal.
  • FIG. 5d shows the frequency spectrum of the residual signal 540 which is output from the first combiner 422.
  • the residual signal 540 corresponds to the difference between the original signal 510 and the filtered signal 530.
  • the FFT block 430 performs the FFT on the residual signal. In other words, the FFT block 430 converts the residual signal in the time domain into the signal in the frequency domain.
  • the envelope estimation block 440 analyzes the converted residual signal and estimates (or detects) the envelope which is the spectral shape of the residual signal.
  • the residual signal is removed from the original audio signal (or program), it must be compensated by an acoustic communication signal with an identical spectrum shape.
  • the frequency masking threshold threshold of audibility
  • the psychoacoustic modeling block 450 calculates a psychoacoustic mask from the original audio according to the common psychoacoustic model which is, for example, defined in ISO-IEC 11172, part 3, Annex D.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a method for calculating a frequency masking threshold and for placing the acoustic communication signal below the threshold.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates the frequency masking threshold (i.e., an actual audibility threshold) 640 for the original audio signal with one masker 610.
  • An absolute audibility threshold 630 shows the threshold strength distribution of each frequency that the human ear has difficulty hearing in a quiet atmosphere.
  • the one masker 610 is the frequency bin having a maximum signal strength compared with nearby frequency bins (maskees) 620 in the original audio signal. Without the masker 610, the maskees 620 exceeding the absolute audibility threshold 630 can be heard. In this example, the maskees (that is, small sounds) 620 are veiled by the masker (that is, large sound) 610, so that the maskees 620 are not heard. This effect is referred to as a masking effect.
  • the actual audibility threshold for the masks 620 rises (or increases) over the absolute audibility threshold 630, with the rising audibility threshold referred to as the frequency masking threshold 640. In other words, the frequency bins below the frequency masking threshold 640 cannot be heard.
  • the psychoacoustic mask calculated by the psychoacoustic modeling block 450 corresponds to the difference between the frequency masking threshold and the original audio signal.
  • FIG. 5e shows the psychoacoustic mask 550 which is output from the psychoacoustic modeling block 450.
  • the original audio signal 510 is also illustrated, for comparison.
  • the second combiner 424 combines the first mask, i.e. the residual spectrum, input from the envelope estimation block 440 with the second mask, i.e. the psychoacoustic mask for the original audio signal, input from the psychoacoustic modeling block 450 and generates the final acoustic signal spectrum mask, and then outputs the generated acoustic signal spectrum mask to the multicarrier modulator 470.
  • the final acoustic signal spectrum mask is used for generating the acoustic communication spectrum.
  • FIG. 5f shows an acoustic signal spectrum mask 560 output from the second combiner 424.
  • the acoustic signal spectrum mask 560 corresponds to the sum of the psychoacoustic mask 550 and the residual signal 540, as shown in FIGs. 5e and 5d, respectively.
  • the object encoding block 460 encodes the input digital data into symbols or objects, and outputs them.
  • the object encoding block 460 can perform Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM).
  • QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
  • the multicarrier modulator 470 performs multicarrier modulation on the encoded digital data, i.e. symbols, according to the acoustic signal spectrum mask input from the second combiner 424, and outputs the resultant signal.
  • the multicarrier modulator 470 can perform the OFDM in which the symbols input from the object encoding block 460 is multiplexed by the frequency bins in the acoustic signal spectrum mask input from the second combiner 424, and then the resultant values are combined and output.
  • the acoustic communication signal output from the multicarrier modulator 470 includes a frequency spectrum similar to that included in the acoustic signal spectrum.
  • the third combiner 426 combines the filtered signal input from the high frequency attenuation filter 410 with the acoustic communication signal output from the multicarrier modulator 470.
  • the speaker 480 radiates the combined signal in a form of sound waves.
  • the multicarrier communication signal is used as the acoustic communication signal, in view of the ease to form an arbitrary spectral shape for the multicarrier signal.
  • CDMA Code-Division Multiple Access
  • spread-spectrum signals can also be used.
  • the psychoacoustic mask calculation method is preferably used in the lossy audio compression codec, for example, it can be based on the psychoacoustic model from MPEG layer II standard which is defined in ISO-IEC 11172, part 3, Annex D. It should be noted that calculation of the psychoacoustic masking threshold is more complicated than just calculation of the masking effect from a single masker.
  • FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating main steps of a method for calculating the psychoacoustic mask according to the present invention, which includes a segment extraction step S10, an FFT step S20, a tonal component detection step S30, a non-tonal component detection step S40, an irrelevant tonal and non-tonal component elimination step S50, an individual frequency mask generation step S60, a global mask generation step S70 and a psychoacoustic mask generation step S80.
  • segment extraction step S10 a temporally short segment is extracted from the original audio signal, with this step repeated in each segment unit.
  • the original audio signal is subjected to the FFT.
  • the original audio signal is converted into a signal from the time domain to the frequency domain.
  • the tonal component detection step S30 maximum frequency components which have a strength larger than that of the nearby frequency components are detected from the frequency components of the original audio signal.
  • the maximum frequency components when the difference in strength between the nearby frequency component and the maximum frequency component is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the maximum frequency component is determined as the tonal component. That is, in the tonal component detection step S30, the tonal component, i.e. pure sound component, which is similar to the sine curve is detected in the frequency components of the original audio signal.
  • non-tonal component detection step S40 maximum frequency components other than the tonal components among the maximum frequency components are determined as the non-tonal components. That is, in the non-tonal component detection step, non-tonal component, i.e. noise component, similar to noise is detected from the frequency components of the original audio signal.
  • the tonal and non-tonal components correspond to the peak component of the original audio signal;
  • the tonal component detection step S30 corresponds to a detection of the pure sound component with the sine curve characteristics from the peak components;
  • the non-tonal component detection step S40 corresponds to detection of the noise component, contrasted with the pure sound from the peak components.
  • tonal and non-tonal components which have the strength less than the absolute audibility threshold are eliminated from the tonal and non-tonal components. That is, in the irrelevant tonal and non-tonal component elimination step S50, the irrelevant and non-tonal inaudible components are eliminated only to determine the principal components.
  • the individual frequency masks for each principal component are calculated.
  • the frequency mask is calculated by adding the strength of the principal components and the values of functions (for example, masking index and masking function) related to the predetermined mask used in the corresponding psychoacoustic model.
  • the masking index is set differently depending on the tonal and non-tonal components, and the masking function is set to be the same for the tonal and non-tonal components.
  • the masking index may be given by a function, such as a-b*z-c dB, of a bark frequency (or critical band rate) z for the principal components.
  • the masking function may be given by a function of the strength X of the principal components and a bark distance dz (a distance between adjacent bark frequencies), such as d*(dz+1)-(e*X+f) dB.
  • dz a distance between adjacent bark frequencies
  • the individual frequency masks are combined with the absolute audibility threshold to form a single global mask.
  • a psychoacoustic mask corresponding to the difference between the global mask and the original audio signal is generated.
  • the steps should be performed over every consecutive signal segment, and the segment duration may be around 20-40 ms, which is a typical quasi-stationary duration of audio signals. Therefore, the duration of the FFT analysis window which is used to analyze residual signal spectrum and the duration of the multicarrier signal symbol can be set to be the same in order to deliver the best performance and simple implementation.
  • the invention provides very flexible control between the distortions in the original audio signal and the communication data rate, which is determined by the cumulative signal-to-noise ratio in the acoustic communication signal.
  • the distortions and data rate can be easily traded-off by adjusting the shape of attenuation filer. If the filter introduces less attenuation the original signal will be less distorted, the total signal-to-noise ratio in the acoustic communication signal will also be reduced. However, this will reduce the total data rate, and vice versa.
  • signal means the acoustic communication signal itself
  • noise means the original audio signal, since it is treated as a random noise by an acoustic communication receiver, assuming that the acoustic communication receiver does not have knowledge of the original audio signal.
  • the invention can be used in the acoustic communication systems for data transfer between mobile devices, such as mobile phones, portable multimedia devices, netbooks and so on.
  • the invention can be used jointly with the acoustic communication system for object transmission described in RU2009119776 and U.S. Publ. 2010-0290484 A1 entitled “Encoder, Decoder, Encoding Method, And Decoding Method” filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office on May 18, 2010 and assigned Serial No. 12/782,520, the contents of each of which are incorporated herein by reference.
  • the invention can be implemented in software using general purpose processors, or digital signal processor chips, or can be implemented in hardware or as a combination of both.
  • the embodiments of the invention are possible to be implemented by hardware, software, or the combination of both.
  • software may be stored in a volatile or nonvolatile storage device such as ROM regardless of whether or not it can be erased or rewrote, or a memory such as RAM, memory chip, device or integrated circuit, or an optical or magnetic medium such as CD, DVD, magnetic disk or magnetic tape.
  • ROM volatile or nonvolatile storage device
  • RAM random access memory
  • memory chip memory chip
  • device or integrated circuit or an optical or magnetic medium such as CD, DVD, magnetic disk or magnetic tape.
  • optical or magnetic medium such as CD, DVD, magnetic disk or magnetic tape.
  • the storage device and the storage medium are exemplarily implemented by a processor, which can be read by a machine suitable for storing a program which includes instructions for implementing the embodiments of the invention.
  • the embodiments provide a program including codes for implementing the system or method which is claimed in the invention, and a storage device which can be read by a machine which stored such program. Further, such program can be transferred electronically through any medium such as a communication signal which is transmitted through a wire or wireless connection, and the embodiments include the equivalence suitably.

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L'invention concerne un procédé de communication acoustique comportant les étapes consistant à filtrer un signal audio afin d'atténuer une portion à haute fréquence du signal audio ; à générer un signal résiduel qui correspond à une différence entre le signal audio et le signal filtré ; à générer un masque psycho-acoustique pour le signal audio sur la base d'un modèle psycho-acoustique prédéterminé ; à générer un masque spectral psycho-acoustique en combinant le signal résiduel avec le masque psycho-acoustique ; à générer un signal de communication acoustique en modulant des données numériques en fonction du masque spectral du signal acoustique ; et à combiner le signal de communication acoustique avec le signal filtré.
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