Abstract: A method and apparatus for audio compression receives an audio signal. Transform coding is applied to the audio signal to generate a sequence of transform frequency coefficients. The sequence of transform frequency coefficients is partitioned into a plurality of non-uniform width frequency ranges and then zero value frequency coefficients are inserted at the boundaries of the non-uniform width frequency ranges. As a result, certain of the transform frequency coefficients that represent high frequencies are dropped.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 3, 2003
Publication date:
September 2, 2004
Applicant:
Digital Stream USA, Inc.
Inventors:
Victor D. Kolesnik, Boris D. Kudryashov, Sergey Petrov, Evgeny Ovsyannikov, Boris Trojanovsky, Andrey Trofimov