Patents by Inventor Takeshi Norimatsu
Takeshi Norimatsu 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).
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Patent number: 9105264Abstract: A coding apparatus which suppresses an extreme increase in a bit rate, includes: a downmixing and coding unit (301) that downmixes audio signals that have been provided, to reduce the number of channels to be fewer than the number of the provided audio signals, and to code the downmix signals; an object parameter extracting unit (304) that extracts parameters indicating correlation between the audio signals; and a multiplexing circuit (309) that multiplexes the extracted parameters with the generated downmix coded signals. The object parameter extracting unit (304) includes: an object classifying unit (305) that classifies each of the provided audio signals into a predetermined one of types based on audio characteristics; and an object parameter extracting circuit (308) that extracts parameters using a temporal granularity and a frequency granularity each of which is determined for a corresponding one of the types.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Takeshi Norimatsu, Kok Seng Chong, Huan Zhou
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Patent number: 9093080Abstract: To provide a bandwidth extension method which allows reduction of computation amount in bandwidth extension and suppression of deterioration of quality in the bandwidth to be extended. In the bandwidth extension method: a low frequency bandwidth signal is transformed into a QMF domain to generate a first low frequency QMF spectrum; pitch-shifted signals are generated by applying different shifting factors on the low frequency bandwidth signal; a high frequency QMF spectrum is generated by time-stretching the pitch-shifted signals in the QMF domain; the high frequency QMF spectrum is modified; and the modified high frequency QMF spectrum is combined with the first low frequency QMF spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Takeshi Norimatsu, Huan Zhou, Kok Seng Chong, Haishan Zhong
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Patent number: 9026236Abstract: To provide an audio signal processing apparatus which can perform, with low operation amount, audio signal processing that is either time stretch and/or compression processing or frequency modulation processing. The audio signal processing apparatus is intended to transform an input audio signal sequence using a predetermined adjustment factor. The audio signal processing apparatus includes a filter bank (2601) which transforms the input audio signal sequence into Quadrature Mirror Filter (QMF) coefficients using a filter for Quadrature Mirror Filter analysis (a QMF analysis filter) and an adjusting unit (2602) which adjusts the QMF coefficients based on a predetermined adjustment factor.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2010Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Takeshi Norimatsu, Kok Seng Chong, Huan Zhou, Haishan Zhong
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Publication number: 20150039323Abstract: An encoding and decoding system includes: a characteristic determining unit which determines whether a sound signal is a speech signal or an audio signal; an encoder which encodes the sound signal into an encoded signal, based on a determination by the characteristic determining unit; a transmitting unit which transmits the encoded signal; a receiving unit which receives the encoded signal; a decoder which decodes the encoded signal; and a packet loss detecting unit which detects a loss of data of the encoded signal and transmits a notification indicating the loss of the data to the characteristic determining unit. Upon receiving the notification indicating the loss of the data, the characteristic determining unit causes the encoder to encode the sound signal portion into a signal portion composed of independently decodable frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Takeshi Norimatsu
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Patent number: 8886548Abstract: Provided is an encoding device (1) including: a pitch contour analysis unit (101) which detects information, a dynamic time-warping unit (102) which generates, based on the information, pitch change ratios (Tw_ratio in FIG. 18) within a range (86) including a range (86a) of the pitch change ratios corresponding to absolute pitch differences of 42 cents or larger; a first lossless coding unit (103) which codes the generated pitch parameters (102x); a time-warping unit (104) which shifts a pitch of a signal according to the information; and a second encoding unit which codes a signal (104x) obtained by the shifting.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2010Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Takeshi Norimatsu, Kok Seng Chong, Huan Zhou, Haishan Zhong
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Publication number: 20140211945Abstract: An audio rendering device which uses multichannel speakers includes: a first delay computation unit which computes, based on rendering information about the multichannel speakers, a first delay corresponding to a primary wavefront which propagates in a predetermined traveling direction from a sound source that is each of speakers included in the multichannel speakers; a second delay computation unit which computes, based on the rendering information about the multichannel speakers, a second delay corresponding to a secondary wavefront which is generated by the primary wavefront and has a scattering wavefront; an addition unit which adds up the first delay and the second delay to compute a total delay; and a delay filter which applies the total delay to an input audio signal to generate a multichannel audio signal for use in rendering with the multichannel speakers, and outputs the multichannel audio signal to the multichannel speakers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2012Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Takeshi Norimatsu, Kok Seng Chong, Lih Horng Tee
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Patent number: 8718285Abstract: An object decoding unit receives a plurality of pieces of coded acoustic information coded on an object basis and decodes the received coded acoustic information on an object basis to generate object signals. A rendering unit positions, for each acoustic signal resulting from synthesizing the object signals, a virtual sound source of each of the object signals resulting from the object-based decoding, in a listening space, and priority information indicating a priority of the acoustic signal is multiplexed with the coded acoustic information. The rendering unit determines, with reference to the priority indicated in the priority information or the number of object signals included in the acoustic signal, a size of an area of the listening space which is allocated to the acoustic signal, and positions, within the area, the virtual sound source of each of the object signals included in the acoustic signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Takeshi Norimatsu, Huan Zhou, Zhong Hai Shan, Kok Seng Chong
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Patent number: 8688442Abstract: An audio decoding apparatus comprises: a plurality of decoding units; a band replicating unit which processes a decoded signal obtained when a corresponding decoding unit decodes a coded signal, according to a scheme specified by transmitted information; and an information transmitting unit which transmits, to a signal processing unit, information identifying the corresponding decoding unit from among the plurality of decoding units.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shuji Miyasaka, Kosuke Nishio, Takeshi Norimatsu
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Publication number: 20140074489Abstract: A sound signal hybrid encoder includes: a signal analysis unit which determines a scheme for encoding a frame included in a sound signal; an LFD encoder which encodes a frame to generate an LFD frame; an LP encoder which encodes a frame to generate an LP frame; a switching unit which switches between the encoders according to a result of the determination by the signal analysis unit; and an AC signal generation unit which generates an AC signal according to a scheme selected from among schemes, outputs the generated AC signal, and also outputs an AC flag indicating the selected scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kok Seng Chong, Takeshi Norimatsu
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Publication number: 20140058737Abstract: A hybrid sound signal decoder decodes a bitstream including audio frames encoded by an audio encoding process using a low delay filter bank and speech frames encoded by a speech encoding process using linear prediction coefficients. When a current frame to be decoded is an ith frame which is an initial speech frame after switching from an audio frame to a speech frame, the hybrid sound signal decoder generates sub-frames which are a signal corresponding to an i?1th frame before being encoded, using a sub-frame which is a signal generated using a signal of the i?1th frame before being encoded, the signal of the i?1th frame being obtained by decoding the ith frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Takeshi Norimatsu, Kok Seng Chong, Dan Zhao
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Patent number: 8504184Abstract: A combination device (305) according to the present invention includes: a detection unit (501) that detects active coded bitstreams that are effective coded bitstreams from a plurality of coded bitstreams (116) within a predetermined time period; a first combining unit (504) that combines, from a plurality of downmix sub-streams (115) included in the coded bitstreams (116), only downmix sub-streams (115) included in the active coded bitstreams so as to generate a combined downmix sub-stream (121); and a second combining unit (506) that combines, from a plurality of parameter sub-streams (113) included in the coded bitstreams (116), only parameter sub-streams (113) included In the active coded bitstreams so as to generate a combined parameter sub-stream (122).Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Takeshi Norimatsu, Huan Zhou, Zhong Hai Shan, Kok Seng Chong
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Publication number: 20130144611Abstract: A coding device includes: a pitch contour detection unit which detects a pitch contour of an input audio signal; a dynamic time warping unit which determines the number of pitch nodes based on the pitch contour and generates a first time warping parameter including information indicating the determined number of pitch nodes, a pitch change position, and a pitch change ratio; a first encoder which codes the first time warping parameter; a time warping unit which corrects pitch, using the information obtained from the first time warping parameter, to approximate the pitches of the number of pitch nodes to a predetermined reference value; a second encoder which codes the input audio signal at the corrected pitch; and a multiplexer which multiplexes the coded time warping parameter and the coded audio signal to generate a bitstream.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Takeshi Norimatsu, Haishan Zhong, Dan Zhao, Kok Seng Chong
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Patent number: 8428953Abstract: An audio decoding device of the present invention includes: a decoding unit decoding a stream to a spectrum coefficient, and outputting stream information when a frame included in the stream cannot be decoded; an orthogonal transformation unit transforming the spectrum coefficient to a time signal; a correction unit generating a correction time signal based on an output waveform within a reference section that is in a section that overlaps between an error frame section to which the stream information is outputted and an adjacent frame section and that is a section in the middle of the adjacent frame section, when the decoding unit outputs the stream information: and an output unit generating the output waveform by synthesizing the correction time signal and the time signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kojiro Ono, Takeshi Norimatsu, Yoshiaki Takagi, Takashi Katayama
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Publication number: 20130090929Abstract: Provided are a new hybrid audio decoder and a new hybrid audio encoder having block switching for speech signals and audio signals. Currently, very low bitrate audio coding methods for speech and audio signal are proposed. These audio coding methods cause very long delay. Generally, in coding an audio signal, algorithm delay tends to be long to achieve higher frequency resolution. In coding a speech signal, the delay needs to be reduced because the speech signal is used for telecommunication. To balance fine coding quality for these two kinds of input signals with very low bitrate, this invention provides a combination of a low delay filter bank like AAC-ELD and a CELP coding method.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Inventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Takeshi Norimatsu, Haishan Zhong, Kok Seng Chong, Huan Zhou
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Patent number: 8391513Abstract: To provide an enhanced true-to-life atmosphere enjoyed in multipoint connecting, and reduce a calculation load at a multipoint connection unit, as well.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2008Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Takeshi Norimatsu, Takashi Katayama
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Patent number: 8311810Abstract: The delay in a multi-channel audio coding apparatus and a multi-channel audio decoding apparatus is reduced. The audio coding apparatus includes: a downmix signal generating unit that generates, in a time domain, a first downmix signal that is one of a 1-channel audio signal and a 2-channel audio signal from an input multi-channel audio signal; a downmix signal coding unit that codes the first downmix signal; a first t-f converting unit that converts the input multi-channel audio signal into a multi-channel audio signal in a frequency domain; and a spatial information calculating unit that generates spatial information for generating a multi-channel audio signal from a downmix signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Takeshi Norimatsu, Kok Seng Chong, Huan Zhou
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Patent number: 8284961Abstract: A signal processing device includes a generation unit that generates a second signal from a first signal that is obtained by down mixing two signals; a mixing coefficient determination unit that determines, based on a value L and a value ?, a mixing degree for mixing the first signal and the second signal; and a mixing unit that mixes the first signal and the second signal based on the mixing degree determined by the mixing coefficient determination unit. The generation unit includes a first filter that generates a low frequency band signal in the second signal, from a low frequency band signal in the first signal; and a second filter that generates a high frequency band signal in the second signal, from a high frequency band signal in the first signal. The first filter is a filter unit which, for a complex-number signal, de-correlates an input signal and adds a reverberation component by using a delay unit and an all pass filter, and the processing unit is a filter unit different from the first filter.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shuji Miyasaka, Yosiaki Takagi, Takeshi Norimatsu, Akihisa Kawamura, Kojiro Ono
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Publication number: 20120185241Abstract: An audio decoding apparatus comprises: a plurality of decoding units; a band replicating unit which processes a decoded signal obtained when a corresponding decoding unit decodes a coded signal, according to a scheme specified by transmitted information; and an information transmitting unit which transmits, to a signal processing unit, information identifying the corresponding decoding unit from among the plurality of decoding units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shuji MIYASAKA, Kosuke Nishio, Takeshi Norimatsu
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Patent number: RE44600Abstract: An encoding device (200) includes an MDCT unit (202) that transforms an input signal in a time domain into a frequency spectrum including a lower frequency spectrum, a BWE encoding unit (204) that generates extension data which specifies a higher frequency spectrum at a higher frequency than the lower frequency spectrum, and an encoded data stream generating unit (205) that encodes to output the lower frequency spectrum obtained by the MDCT unit (202) and the extension data obtained by the BWE encoding unit (204). The BWE encoding unit (204) generates as the extension data (i) a first parameter which specifies a lower subband which is to be copied as the higher frequency spectrum from among a plurality of the lower subbands which form the lower frequency spectrum obtained by the MDCT unit (202) and (ii) a second parameter which specifies a gain of the lower subband after being copied.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Mineo Tsushima, Takeshi Norimatsu, Kosuke Nishio, Naoya Tanaka
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Patent number: RE45042Abstract: An encoding device (200) includes an MDCT unit (202) that transforms an input signal in a time domain into a frequency spectrum including a lower frequency spectrum, a BWE encoding unit (204) that generates extension data which specifies a higher frequency spectrum at a higher frequency than the lower frequency spectrum, and an encoded data stream generating unit (205) that encodes to output the lower frequency spectrum obtained by the MDCT unit (202) and the extension data obtained by the BWE encoding unit (204). The BWE encoding unit (204) generates as the extension data (i) a first parameter which specifies a lower subband which is to be copied as the higher frequency spectrum from among a plurality of the lower subbands which form the lower frequency spectrum obtained by the MDCT unit (202) and (ii) a second parameter which specifies a gain of the lower subband after being copied.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Dolby International ABInventors: Mineo Tsushima, Takeshi Norimatsu, Kosuke Nishio, Naoya Tanaka