Patents by Inventor Xingtao Zhang
Xingtao Zhang 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: 11935548Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
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Patent number: 11915709Abstract: An inter-channel phase difference (IPD) parameter extraction method includes obtaining a parameter for 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 for 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: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
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Publication number: 20240029746Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
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Patent number: 11756557Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Halting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
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Publication number: 20230131892Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Xingtao ZHANG, Haiting LI, Zexin LIU, Lei MIAO
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Patent number: 11568882Abstract: This application discloses an IPD parameter encoding method, including: obtaining a reference parameter used to determine an IPD parameter encoding scheme of a current frame of a multi-channel signal; determining the IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame based on the reference parameter, where the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame is one of at least two preset IPD parameter encoding schemes; and processing an IPD parameter of the current frame based on the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame. The technical solutions provided in this application can improve encoding quality of the multi-channel signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
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Publication number: 20220328053Abstract: An inter-channel phase difference (IPD) parameter extraction method includes obtaining a parameter for 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 for 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: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
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Patent number: 11393480Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
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Publication number: 20220084531Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
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Patent number: 11217257Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
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Publication number: 20210383815Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
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Patent number: 11133014Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
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Publication number: 20210264926Abstract: This application discloses an IPD parameter encoding method, including: obtaining a reference parameter used to determine an IPD parameter encoding scheme of a current frame of a multi-channel signal; determining the IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame based on the reference parameter, where the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame is one of at least two preset IPD parameter encoding schemes; and processing an IPD parameter of the current frame based on the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame. The technical solutions provided in this application can improve encoding quality of the multi-channel signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Xingtao ZHANG, Haiting LI, Zexin LIU, Lei MIAO
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Patent number: 11031020Abstract: A speech/audio bitstream decoding method includes acquiring a speech/audio decoding parameter of a current speech/audio frame, where the foregoing current speech/audio frame is a redundant decoded frame or a speech/audio frame previous to the foregoing current speech/audio frame is a redundant decoded frame, performing post processing on the acquired speech/audio decoding parameter according to speech/audio parameters of X speech/audio frames, where the foregoing X speech/audio frames include M speech/audio frames previous to the foregoing current speech/audio frame and/or N speech/audio frames next to the foregoing current speech/audio frame, and recovering a speech/audio signal using the post-processed speech/audio decoding parameter of the foregoing current speech/audio frame. The technical solutions of the speech/audio bitstream decoding method help improve quality of an output speech/audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
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Patent number: 11031021Abstract: This application discloses an IPD parameter encoding method, including: obtaining a reference parameter used to determine an IPD parameter encoding scheme of a current frame of a multi-channel signal; determining the IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame based on the reference parameter, where the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame is one of at least two preset IPD parameter encoding schemes; and processing an IPD parameter of the current frame based on the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame. The technical solutions provided in this application can improve encoding quality of the multi-channel signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
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Patent number: 10856094Abstract: A method and an apparatus for locating a sound source are provided. The method includes: obtaining M channels of audio signals of a preset format by microphone arrays located in different planes (S100); preprocessing the M channels of audio signals of the preset format, and projecting them onto the same plane, so as to obtain N channels of audio signals, where M?N (S200); performing a time-frequency transformation on each of the N channels of audio signals, so as to obtain frequency domain signals of the N channels of audio signals (S300); further calculating a covariance matrix of the frequency domain signals and performing a smoothing process (S400); performing an eigenvalue decomposition of the smoothed covariance matrix (S500); estimating the sound source direction according to an eigenvector corresponding to the maximum eigenvalue, so as to obtain a sound source orientation parameter (S600).Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignees: NANJING TWIRLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING TWIRLING IN TIME CO., LTD.Inventors: Xuejing Sun, Xingtao Zhang, Chen Zhang
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Publication number: 20200211575Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
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Patent number: 10643625Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
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Publication number: 20200126571Abstract: This application discloses an IPD parameter encoding method, including: obtaining a reference parameter used to determine an IPD parameter encoding scheme of a current frame of a multi-channel signal; determining the IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame based on the reference parameter, where the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame is one of at least two preset IPD parameter encoding schemes; and processing an IPD parameter of the current frame based on the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame. The technical solutions provided in this application can improve encoding quality of the multi-channel signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Xingtao ZHANG, Haiting LI, Zexin LIU, Lei MIAO
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Publication number: 20190342688Abstract: A method and an apparatus for locating a sound source are provided. The method includes: obtaining M channels of audio signals of a preset format by microphone arrays located in different planes (S100); preprocessing the M channels of audio signals of the preset format, and projecting them onto the same plane, so as to obtain N channels of audio signals, where M?N (S200); performing a time-frequency transformation on each of the N channels of audio signals, so as to obtain frequency domain signals of the N channels of audio signals (S300); further calculating a covariance matrix of the frequency domain signals and performing a smoothing process (S400); performing an eigenvalue decomposition of the smoothed covariance matrix (S500); estimating the sound source direction according to an eigenvector corresponding to the maximum eigenvalue, so as to obtain a sound source orientation parameter (S600).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicants: NANJING TWIRLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING TWIRLING IN TIME CO., LTD.Inventors: Xuejing SUN, Xingtao ZHANG, Chen ZHANG