Abstract: A down sampler 13 down samples a digital signal in the sampling frequency thereof from 96 kHz to 48 kHz on a frame-by-frame basis. The converted signal is compression encoded and output as a main code Im. An up sampler 16 converts a partial signal corresponding to the main code Im to a signal having the original sampling frequency 96 kHz, for example. An error signal between the up sampled signal and an input digital signal is generated. An array converting and encoding unit 18 array converts bits of sample chains of the error signal, thereby outputting an error code Pe. On a decoding side, a high fidelity reproduced signal is obtained based on the main code Im and the error code Pe, or a reproduced signal is obtained based on the main code Im only.

Abstract: A down sampler 13 down samples a digital signal in the sampling frequency thereof from 96 kHz to 48 kHz on a frame-by-frame basis. The converted signal is compression encoded and output as a main code Im. An up sampler 16 converts a partial signal corresponding to the main code Im to a signal having the original sampling frequency 96 kHz, for example. An error signal between the up sampled signal and an input digital signal is generated. An array converting and encoding unit 18 array converts bits of sample chains of the error signal, thereby outputting an error code Pe. On a decoding side, a high fidelity reproduced signal is obtained based on the main code Im and the error code Pe, or a reproduced signal is obtained based on the main code Im only.

Abstract: A down sampler 13 down samples a digital signal in the sampling frequency thereof from 96 kHz to 48 kHz on a frame-by-frame basis. The converted signal is compression encoded and output as a main code Im. An up sampler 16 converts a partial signal corresponding to the main code Im to a signal having the original sampling frequency 96 kHz, for example. An error signal between the up sampled signal and an input digital signal is generated. An array converting and encoding unit 18 array converts bits of sample chains of the error signal, thereby outputting an error code Pe. On a decoding side, a high fidelity reproduced signal is obtained based on the main code Im and the error code Pe, or a reproduced signal is obtained based on the main code Im only.

Abstract: At the coder side, bits of samples of each frame of an input digital signal are concatenated every digit common to the samples across each frame to generate equi-order bit sequences, which are output as packets. At the decoding side, the input equi-order sequences are arranged inversely to their arrangement at the coder side to reconstruct sample sequences. When a packet dropout occurs, a missing information compensating part 430 correct the reconstructed sample sequences in a manner to reduce an error between the spectral envelope of the reconstructed sample sequence concerned and a known spectral envelope.

Abstract: At the coder side, bits of samples of each frame of an input digital signal are concatenated every digit common to the samples across each frame to generate equi-order bit sequences, which are output as packets. At the decoding side, the input equi-order sequences are arranged inversely to their arrangement at the coder side to reconstruct sample sequences. When a packet dropout occurs, a missing information compensating part 430 correct the reconstructed sample sequences in a manner to reduce an error between the spectral envelope of the reconstructed sample sequence concerned and a known spectral envelope.

Abstract: At the coder side, bits of samples of each frame of an input digital signal are concatenated every digit common to the samples across each frame to generate equi-order bit sequences, which are output as packets. At the decoding side, the input equi-order sequences are arranged inversely to their arrangement at the coder side to reconstruct sample sequences. When a packet dropout occurs, a missing information compensating part 430 correct the reconstructed sample sequences in a manner to reduce an error between the spectral envelope of the reconstructed sample sequence concerned and a known spectral envelope.

Abstract: A sample sequence ?S similar to a first or last sample sequence of the current frame is extracted from its samples SFC and concatenated, as an alternative sample sequence AS, to each of the front and back of the current frame, and the current frame with the alternative sample sequence concatenated thereto is subjected to filtering or prediction coding to obtain processing result SOU of the current frame. In the case of prediction coding, auxiliary information, which indicates which part of the current frame was used as the alternative sample sequence, is also output. By this, filtering, autoregressive prediction coding and decoding, which require processing extending over preceding and succeeding frames as in an interpolation filter, can be concluded in the current frame with substantially no degradation of the continuity and coding efficient of the reconstructed signal.

Abstract: Digital signal samples X in a floating-point format, each of which is composed of 1 bit of sign, 8 bits of exponent E and 23 bits of mantissa M, are converted through rounding by an integer formatting part 12 into digital signal samples Y in an integer format, the sequence of the digital signal samples Y is losslessly compression-coded by a compressing part 13 into a code sequence Ca, and the code sequence Ca is output. The digital signal samples Y are converted by a floating point formatting part 15 into digital signal samples X? in the floating-point format, a difference signal ?X indicating the difference between the digital signal sample X? and the digital signal sample X is determined by a subtraction part 16, the difference signal ?X is losslessly coded, and the resulting code sequence Cb is output.

Abstract: Digital signal samples X in a floating-point format, each of which is composed of 1 bit of sign, 8 bits of exponent E and 23 bits of mantissa M, are converted through rounding by an integer formatting part 12 into digital signal samples Y in an integer format, the sequence of the digital signal samples Y is losslessly compression-coded by a compressing part 13 into a code sequence Ca, and the code sequence Ca is output. The digital signal samples Y are converted by a floating point formatting part 15 into digital signal samples X? in the floating-point format, a difference signal ?X indicating the difference between the digital signal sample X? and the digital signal sample X is determined by a subtraction part 16, the difference signal ?X is losslessly coded, and the resulting code sequence Cb is output.

Abstract: A sample sequence ?S similar to a first or last sample sequence of the current frame is extracted from its samples SFC and concatenated, as an alternative sample sequence AS, to each of the front and back of the current frame, and the current frame with the alternative sample sequence concatenated thereto is subjected to filtering or prediction coding to obtain processing result SOU of the current frame. In the case of prediction coding, auxiliary information, which indicates which part of the current frame was used as the alternative sample sequence, is also output. By this, filtering, autoregressive prediction coding and decoding, which require processing extending over preceding and succeeding frames as in an interpolation filter, can be concluded in the current frame with substantially no degradation of the continuity and coding efficient of the reconstructed signal.

Abstract: A down sampler 13 down samples a digital signal in the sampling frequency thereof from 96 kHz to 48 kHz on a frame-by-frame basis. The converted signal is compression encoded and output as a main code Im. An up sampler 16 converts a partial signal corresponding to the main code Im to a signal having the original sampling frequency 96 kHz, for example. An error signal between the up sampled signal and an input digital signal is generated. An array converting and encoding unit 18 array converts bits of sample chains of the error signal, thereby outputting an error code Pe. On a decoding side, a high fidelity reproduced signal is obtained based on the main code Im and the error code Pe, or a reproduced signal is obtained based on the main code Im only.

Abstract: At the coder side, bits of samples of each frame of an input digital signal are concatenated every digit common to the samples across each frame to generate equi-order bit sequences, which are output as packets. At the decoding side, the input equi-order sequences are arranged inversely to their arrangement at the coder side to reconstruct sample sequences. When a packet dropout occurs, a missing information compensating part 430 correct the reconstructed sample sequences in a manner to reduce an error between the spectral envelope of the reconstructed sample sequence concerned and a known spectral envelope.

Abstract: In multichannel acoustic signal coding and decoding, left- and right-channel signals are alternately interleaved for each sample to generate a one-dimensional signal sample sequence. The one-dimensional signal sample sequence is subjected to coding based on correlation. In coding, the left- and right-channel signals may preferably be interleaved after reducing an imbalance in power between input channels.

Abstract: A speech transmission method utilizes a speech frame length having a time period within which a speech waveform remains substantially steady-state, and the speech frame length is selected to be 1/M the time period of one TDM or TDMA frame. For each speech frame, speech signal is coded, from which are selected M different speech codes including two speech codes that are spaced one or more speech frames apart, and the selected M speech codes are combined into composite codes. Each composite code is inserted in one time slot of each TDM or TDMA frame.