Abstract: A device for decoding audio signals subjected to a noise-reduction encoding such as a Dolby-B encoding comprises a plurality of processing blocks (612, 616, 620, 624, 628, 632, 636, 640) for generating, starting from an input signal (610) containing the audio signal subjected to encoding superimposed on a noise component, an output signal (626) consisting of a replication of the audio signal with the noise component reduced. The aforesaid processing blocks are implemented in a digital form and comprise a sliding-band filtering structure (612) fed with the input signal (610) and designed to generate a filtered signal (614). The filtered signal (614) is fed, according to a general feedforward scheme, to an overshoot-suppression stage (616) in view of the generation, in an adder node (620), of a difference signal (622) starting from which the output signal is obtained via filtering (624).

Abstract: A device for decoding audio signals subjected to a noise-reduction encoding such as a Dolby-B encoding comprises a plurality of processing blocks (612, 616, 620, 624, 628, 632, 636, 640) for generating, starting from an input signal (610) containing the audio signal subjected to encoding superimposed on a noise component, an output signal (626) consisting of a replication of the audio signal with the noise component reduced. The aforesaid processing blocks are implemented in a digital form and comprise a sliding-band filtering structure (612) fed with the input signal (610) and designed to generate a filtered signal (614). The filtered signal (614) is fed, according to a general feedforward scheme, to an overshoot-suppression stage (616) in view of the generation, in an adder node (620), of a difference signal (622) starting from which the output signal is obtained via filtering (624).