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).

  • Patent number: 11462224
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Zexin Liu, Haiting Li
  • Publication number: 20220310101
    Abstract: An audio encoding and decoding method and a related apparatus are provided. The audio encoding method includes: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame; when the channel combination scheme for the current frame is different from a channel combination scheme for a previous frame, performing segmented time-domain downmix processing on left and right channel signals in the current frame based on the channel combination scheme for the current frame and the channel combination scheme for the previous frame, to obtain a primary channel signal and a secondary channel signal in the current frame; and encoding the obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal in the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Bin WANG, Haiting LI, Lei MIAO
  • Patent number: 11393482
    Abstract: An audio encoding and decoding method includes obtaining a channel combination scheme for a current frame, obtaining an encoding mode of the current frame based on a downmix mode of a previous frame and the channel combination scheme for the current frame, performing time-domain downmix processing on left and right channel signals of the current frame based on the encoding mode of the current frame to obtain primary and secondary channel signals of the current frame, and encoding the primary and secondary channel signals of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLGOIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Bin Wang, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 11393480
    Abstract: An inter-channel phase difference (IPD) parameter extraction method and apparatus, where the extraction method includes obtaining a parameter obtaining an information extraction manner for a current frame of a multi-channel signal, obtaining an IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame based on the parameter obtaining the information extraction manner, where the obtained IPD parameter extraction manner is one of at least two preset IPD parameter extraction manners, and obtaining an IPD parameter of the current frame based on the obtained IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20220191635
    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: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 11361775
    Abstract: Example signal reconstructing method and apparatus are described. One example method includes obtaining a reference sound channel and a target sound channel. An adaptive length of a transition segment is obtained based on an inter-channel time difference in the current frame and an initial length of the transition segment. A transition window in the current frame is obtained based on the adaptive length of the transition segment. A gain modification factor of a reconstructed signal is obtained. A transition segment signal on the target sound channel is obtained based on the inter-channel time difference, the adaptive length of the transition segment, the transition window, the gain modification factor, and a reference sound channel signal and a target sound channel signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20220139404
    Abstract: An audio encoding and decoding method and a related apparatus are provided. The audio encoding method may include: determining a coding mode of a current frame; when determining that the coding mode of the current frame is an anticorrelated signal coding mode, performing time-domain downmix processing on left and right channel signals in the current frame by using a time-domain downmix processing manner corresponding to the anticorrelated signal coding mode, to obtain a primary channel signal and a secondary channel signal, where the time-domain downmix processing manner corresponding to the anticorrelated signal coding mode is a time-domain downmix processing manner corresponding to an anticorrelated signal channel combination scheme, and the anticorrelated signal channel combination scheme is a channel combination scheme corresponding to a near out of phase signal; and encoding the obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal in the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Haiting LI, Bin WANG, Lei MIAO
  • Publication number: 20220108710
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a decoding method, and a decoding apparatus for a stereo signal. The decoding method includes: decoding a bitstream to obtain a first channel signal, a second channel signal, and a first ITD of a current frame of a stereo signal; performing a mixing processing on the first channel signal and the second channel signal, to obtain a third channel reconstructed signal and a fourth channel reconstructed signal; performing interpolation processing based on the first ITD and a second ITD of a previous frame previous to the current frame, to obtain a third ITD; and adjusting a delay of the third channel reconstructed signal and the fourth channel reconstructed signal based on the third ITD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Eyal SHLOMOT, Haiting LI, Bin WANG
  • Publication number: 20220108709
    Abstract: A stereo signal encoding method includes determining a window length of an attenuation window based on an inter-channel time difference; determining a modified linear prediction analysis window based on the window length of the attenuation window, where values of at least some points from a point (L?sub_window_len) to a point (L?1) in the modified linear prediction analysis window are less than values of corresponding points from a point (L?sub_window_len) to a point (L?1) in an initial linear prediction analysis window, and the window length of the modified linear prediction analysis window is equal to a window length of the initial linear prediction analysis window; and performing linear prediction analysis on a to-be-processed sound channel signal based on the modified linear prediction analysis window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Eyal Schlomot, Jonathan Alastair Gibbs, Haiting Li
  • Patent number: 11294959
    Abstract: Systems and methods for data filtering and mining using multiple-level, composite-attribute tree-node diagrams to quickly select and analyze data of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wanqiang Li, Haiting Li, Kiran Gopala Reddy Sunanda
  • Publication number: 20220084531
    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: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20220051680
    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: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 11244691
    Abstract: A stereo signal encoding method includes determining a window length of an attenuation window based on an inter-channel time difference, determining a modified linear prediction analysis window based on the window length of the attenuation window, where values of at least some points from a point (L?sub_window_len) to a point (L?1) in the modified linear prediction analysis window are less than values of corresponding points from a point (L?sub_window_len) to a point (L?1) in an initial linear prediction analysis window, and the window length of the modified linear prediction analysis window is equal to a window length of the initial linear prediction analysis window, and performing linear prediction analysis on a to-be-processed sound channel signal based on the modified linear prediction analysis window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Jonathan Alastair Gibbs, Haiting Li
  • Patent number: 11217257
    Abstract: A method for encoding a multi-channel signal and an encoder, where the encoding method includes obtaining a multi-channel signal of a current frame, determining an initial inter-channel time difference (ITD) value of the current frame, controlling, based on characteristic information of the multi-channel signal, a quantity of target frames that are allowed to appear continuously, where the characteristic information includes at least one of a signal-to-noise ratio of the multi-channel signal or a peak feature of cross correlation coefficients of the multi-channel signal, and an ITD value of a previous frame of the target frame is reused as an ITD value of the target frame, determining an ITD value of the current frame based on the initial ITD value and the quantity of target frames allowed to appear continuously, and encoding the multi-channel signal based on the ITD value of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 11200907
    Abstract: A stereo signal processing method and apparatus, where the 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: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20210383815
    Abstract: A multi-channel signal encoding method includes obtaining a multi-channel signal of a current frame; determining an initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame; determining a difference parameter based on the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and multi-channel parameters of previous K frames of the current frame, where the difference parameter represents a difference between the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and the multi-channel parameters of the previous K frames, and K is an integer greater than or equal to one; determining a multi-channel parameter of the current frame based on the difference parameter and a characteristic parameter of the current frame; and encoding the multi-channel signal based on the multi-channel parameter of the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20210375292
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium is provided. The non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer instructions stored therein, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations comprise: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Bin WANG, Haiting LI, Lei MIAO
  • Patent number: 11133014
    Abstract: A multi-channel signal encoding method and an encoder, where the encoding method includes obtaining a multi-channel signal of a current frame, determining an initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame, determining a difference parameter based on the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and multi-channel parameters of previous K frames of the current frame, where the difference parameter represents a difference between the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and the multi-channel parameters of the previous K frames, and K is an integer greater than or equal to one, determining a multi-channel parameter of the current frame based on the difference parameter and a characteristic parameter of the current frame, and encoding the multi-channel signal based on the multi-channel parameter of the current frame. Hence, the method and the encoder ensure better accuracy of inter-channel information of a multi-channel signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 11120807
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20210264925
    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: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao