Perceptual coding of audio signals using entropy coding and/or multiple power spectra
August 2, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesVery low rate speech encoder and decoder Method and apparatus for efficiently encoding and decoding image sequences Method of transmitting or storing masked sub-band coded audio signals Perceptual coding of audio signals Hierarchical entropy coded lattice threshold quantization encoding method and apparatus for image and video compression Perceptual coding of audio signals Patent #: 5341457 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 284324 filed on 08/02/1994US Classes:704/227, Pretransmission704/211, Time704/226NoiseExaminersPrimary: Knepper, David D.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG10L 007/06AbstractA technique for the masking of quantizing noise in the coding of audio signals is usable with the types of channel coding known as "noiseless" or Huffman coding and with variable radix packing. In a multichannel environment, noise masking thresholds may be determined by combining sets of power spectra for each of the channels. The stereophonic embodiment eliminates redundancies in the sum and difference signals, so that the stereo coding uses significantly less than twice the bit rate of the comparable monaural signal. The technique can be used both in transmission of signals and in recording for reproduction, particularly recording and reproduction of music. Compatibility with the ISDN transmission rates known as 1B, 2B and 3B rates has been achieved.Other References
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