Abstract: A material conveying device includes a base frame, a first conveying unit, a second conveying unit and a transfer assembly. The first conveying unit is provided on the base frame, the second conveying unit is provided on the base frame, and the transfer assembly is provided on the base frame and can transfer a material between the first conveying unit and the second conveying unit. The present disclosure further provides a processing equipment facilitating material distribution and a material distribution method.

Abstract: A method for decoding an audio signal includes: obtaining a lower-band signal component of an audio signal corresponding to a received code stream when the audio signal switches from a first bandwidth to a second bandwidth which is narrower than the first bandwidth; extending the lower-band signal component to obtain higher-band information; performing a time-varying fadeout process on the higher-band information to obtain a processed higher-band signal component; and synthesizing the processed higher-band signal component and the obtained lower-band signal component. With the methods provided in the embodiments of the invention, when an audio signal has a switch from broadband to narrowband, a series of processes such as bandwidth detection, artificial band extension, time-varying fadeout process, and bandwidth synthesis, may be performed to make the switch to have a smooth transition from a broadband signal to a narrowband signal so that a comfortable listening experience may be achieved.

Abstract: The invention discloses a multi-stage quantization method, which includes the following steps: obtaining a reference codebook according to a previous stage codebook; obtaining a current stage codebook according to the reference codebook and a scaling factor; and quantizing an input vector by using the current stage codebook. The invention also discloses a multi-stage quantization device. With the invention, the current stage codebook may be obtained according to the previous stage codebook, by using the correlation between the current stage codebook and the previous stage codebook. As a result, it does not require an independent codebook space for the current stage codebook, which saves the storage space and improves the resource usage efficiency.

Abstract: A method for decoding an audio signal includes: obtaining a lower-band signal component of an audio signal corresponding to a received code stream when the audio signal switches from a first bandwidth to a second bandwidth which is narrower than the first bandwidth; extending the lower-band signal component to obtain higher-band information; performing a time-varying fadeout process on the higher-band information to obtain a processed higher-band signal component; and synthesizing the processed higher-band signal component and the obtained lower-band signal component. With the methods provided in the embodiments of the invention, when an audio signal has a switch from broadband to narrowband, a series of processes such as bandwidth detection, artificial band extension, time-varying fadeout process, and bandwidth synthesis, may be performed to make the switch to have a smooth transition from a broadband signal to a narrowband signal so that a comfortable listening experience may be achieved.

Abstract: The invention discloses a multi-stage quantization method, which includes the following steps: obtaining a reference codebook according to a previous stage codebook; obtaining a current stage codebook according to the reference codebook and a scaling factor; and quantizing an input vector by using the current stage codebook. The invention also discloses a multi-stage quantization device. With the invention, the current stage codebook may be obtained according to the previous stage codebook, by using the correlation between the current stage codebook and the previous stage codebook. As a result, it does not require an independent codebook space for the current stage codebook, which saves the storage space and improves the resource usage efficiency.