Patents by Inventor Haiting Li

Haiting Li has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250131927
    Abstract: A time-domain stereo parameter encoding method and a related product are provided. The time-domain stereo parameter encoding method includes: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame; determining a time-domain stereo parameter of the current frame based on the channel combination scheme for the current frame; and encoding the determined time-domain stereo parameter of the current frame, where the time-domain stereo parameter includes at least one of a channel combination ratio factor or an inter-channel time difference. The technical solutions provided in embodiments of this application help improve encoding and decoding quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Haiting LI, Bin WANG, Lei MIAO
  • Patent number: 12231841
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an audio data processing method and apparatus, and a sound box system, which are related to the field of audio technologies, and improve sound quality of an audio playing device. The sound box system includes a full-frequency sound box and a low-frequency sound box. The full-frequency sound box is physically connected to the low-frequency sound box by using a first fastening part of the full-frequency sound box and a second fastening part of the low-frequency sound box. Furthermore, the full-frequency sound box communicates with the low-frequency sound box by using a first communication part of the first fastening part and a second communication part of the second fastening part, where the first fastening part and the second fastening part are a group of paired connection parts, and the first communication part and the second communication part are a group of paired communication parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhipeng Chen, Jiang Li, Shiqiang Peng, Xiangyu Zhao, Fan Fan, Haiting Li, Tizheng Wang
  • Patent number: 12230283
    Abstract: A stereo signal processing method includes performing delay estimation on a stereo signal of a current frame to determine an inter-channel time difference of the current frame, identifying a sign of the inter-channel time difference of the current frame is different from a sign of an inter-channel time difference of a previous frame of the current frame, performing delay alignment processing on the first-channel signal of the current frame based on the inter-channel time difference of the current frame, and performing delay alignment processing on the second-channel signal of the current frame based on the inter-channel time difference of the previous frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20250037726
    Abstract: A method for encoding an audio signal includes obtaining an ITD value of a current frame of an audio signal; obtaining a characteristic parameter of the current frame, wherein the characteristic parameter comprises at least one of a signal-to-noise ratio of the current frame or a peak feature of cross correlation coefficients of the current frame; determining, based on the characteristic parameter, whether to use the initial ITD value as the finalized ITD value of the current frame; and encoding the current frame based on the finalized ITD value of the current frame, wherein if the initial ITD value is determined as not used as the finalized ITD value of the current frame, the finalized ITD value of the current frame is the same as a finalized ITD value of a previous frame of the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20250037727
    Abstract: A stereo signal encoding method includes performing spectrum broadening on a quantized line spectral frequency (LSF) parameter of a primary channel signal in a current frame in a stereo signal to obtain a spectrum-broadened LSF parameter of the primary channel signal, determining a prediction residual of an LSF parameter of a secondary channel signal in the current frame based on an original LSF parameter of the secondary channel signal and the spectrum-broadened LSF parameter of the primary channel signal, and performing a quantization on the prediction residual of the LSF parameter of the secondary channel signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Jonathan Alastair Gibbs, Haiting Li
  • Publication number: 20250006209
    Abstract: This application disclose a multi-channel signal encoding method, a multi-channel signal decoding method, and a terminal device for processing multi-channel signal. The multi-channel signal encoding method includes: obtaining silent flag information of a multi-channel signal, where the silent flag information includes a silent enable flag and/or a silent flag; and performing multi-channel encoding processing on the multi-channel signal to obtain a transmission channel signal of each transmission channel; and generating a bitstream based on the transmission channel signal of each transmission channel and the silent flag information, where the bitstream includes the silent flag information and a multi-channel encoding result of the transmission channel signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Zhi WANG, Zhe WANG, Haiting LI
  • Publication number: 20240428807
    Abstract: An encoding method includes determining an adaptive broadening factor based on a quantized line spectral frequency (LSF) vector of a first channel of a current frame of an audio signal and an LSF vector of a second channel of the current frame, and writing the quantized LSF vector and the adaptive broadening factor into a bitstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Jonathan Alastair Gibbs, Haiting Li
  • Patent number: 12175987
    Abstract: A time-domain stereo parameter encoding method and a related product are provided. The time-domain stereo parameter encoding method includes: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame; determining a time-domain stereo parameter of the current frame based on the channel combination scheme for the current frame; and encoding the determined time-domain stereo parameter of the current frame, where the time-domain stereo parameter includes at least one of a channel combination ratio factor or an inter-channel time difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Bin Wang, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20240404532
    Abstract: In a stereo encoding method, a channel combination encoding solution of a current frame is first obtained, and then a quantized channel combination ratio factor of the current frame and an encoding index of the quantized channel combination ratio factor are obtained based on the obtained channel combination encoding solution, so that an obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal of the current frame meet a characteristic of the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Bin WANG, Haiting LI, Lei MIAO
  • Patent number: 12154577
    Abstract: A method for encoding an audio signal includes obtaining an ITD value of a current frame of an audio signal; obtaining a characteristic parameter of the current frame, wherein the characteristic parameter comprises at least one of a signal-to-noise ratio of the current frame or a peak feature of cross-correlation coefficients of the current frame; determining, based on the characteristic parameter, whether to use the initial ITD value as the finalized ITD value of the current frame; and encoding the current frame based on the finalized ITD value of the current frame, wherein if the initial ITD value is determined as not used as the finalized ITD value of the current frame, the finalized ITD value of the current frame is the same as a finalized ITD value of a previous frame of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 12148436
    Abstract: A stereo signal encoding method includes performing spectrum broadening on a quantized line spectral frequency (LSF) parameter of a primary channel signal in a current frame in a stereo signal to obtain a spectrum-broadened LSF parameter of the primary channel signal, determining a prediction residual of an LSF parameter of a secondary channel signal in the current frame based on an original LSF parameter of the secondary channel signal and the spectrum-broadened LSF parameter of the primary channel signal, and performing a quantization on the prediction residual of the LSF parameter of the secondary channel signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Jonathan Alastair Gibbs, Haiting Li
  • Publication number: 20240355343
    Abstract: A stereo signal encoding method includes: obtaining a residual signal encoding parameter of a current frame of a stereo signal based on downmixed signal energy and residual signal energy of each of M sub-bands of the current frame, where the residual signal encoding parameter indicates whether to encode residual signals of the M sub-bands; determining whether to encode the residual signals based on the residual signal encoding parameter; and encoding the residual signals when it is determined that the residual signals need to be encoded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Zexin Liu, Haiting Li
  • Publication number: 20240355342
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an inter-channel phase difference parameter encoding method, where a current frame is obtained; a signal type and a previous IPD parameter encoding scheme of a previous frame are obtained; a current IPD parameter encoding scheme is obtained at least based on the signal type of the previous frame and the previous IPD parameter encoding scheme; and an IPD parameter of the current frame is processed based on the current IPD parameter encoding scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Xingtao ZHANG, Haiting LI, Zexin LIU, Lei MIAO
  • Patent number: 12112761
    Abstract: An encoding method includes determining an adaptive broadening factor based on a quantized line spectral frequency (LSF) vector of a first channel of a current frame of an audio signal and an LSF vector of a second channel of the current frame, and writing the quantized LSF vector and the adaptive broadening factor into a bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Jonathan Alastair Gibbs, Haiting Li
  • Patent number: 12087312
    Abstract: In a stereo encoding method, a channel combination encoding solution of a current frame is first obtained, and then a quantized channel combination ratio factor of the current frame and an encoding index of the quantized channel combination ratio factor are obtained based on the obtained channel combination encoding solution, so that an obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal of the current frame meet a characteristic of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20240282318
    Abstract: A method for determining an audio coding mode and a related apparatus are provided. The method may include: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame, where the determined channel combination scheme for the current frame is one of a plurality of channel combination schemes; and determining a coding mode of the current frame based on a channel combination scheme for a previous frame and the channel combination scheme for the current frame, where the coding mode of the current frame is one of a plurality of coding modes. The technical solutions provided in embodiments of this application help improve encoding quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Bin WANG, Haiting LI, Lei MIAO
  • Patent number: 12067993
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an inter-channel phase difference parameter encoding method, where a current frame is obtained; a signal type and a previous IPD parameter encoding scheme of a previous frame are obtained; a current IPD parameter encoding scheme is obtained at least based on the signal type of the previous frame and the previous IPD parameter encoding scheme; and an IPD parameter of the current frame is processed based on the current IPD parameter encoding scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20240274136
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for determining a weighting factor during stereo signal encoding. In those embodiments, a parameter value corresponding to the encoding mode of the to-be-encoded signal is determining based on an encoding mode of a to-be-encoded signal in a stereo signal and a correspondence between an encoding mode and a parameter value. Based on the determined parameter value and an energy spectrum of a linear prediction filter corresponding to an original line spectral frequency parameter of the to-be-encoded signal is a weighting factor for calculating a distance between the original line spectral frequency parameter and a target original line spectral frequency parameter is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20240249731
    Abstract: An audio signal encoding method is provided. According to the method, if a current frame is a switching frame, a to-be-encoded downmixed signal and a to-be-encoded residual signal of the subband corresponding to the preset frequency band in the current frame are obtained based on a switch fade-in/fade-out factor of a previous frame, an initial downmixed signal and an initial residual signal of the preset frequency band of the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Haiting LI, Bin WANG, Zexin LIU
  • Publication number: 20240223982
    Abstract: A delay estimation method includes determining a cross-correlation coefficient of a multi-channel signal of a current frame, determining a delay track estimation value of the current frame based on buffered inter-channel time difference information of at least one past frame, determining an adaptive window function of the current frame, performing weighting on the cross-correlation coefficient based on the delay track estimation value of the current frame and the adaptive window function of the current frame, to obtain a weighted cross-correlation coefficient, and determining an inter-channel time difference of the current frame based on the weighted cross-correlation coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Haiting Li, Lei Miao