Abstract: The present invention relates to a signal processing apparatus and a signal processing method, an encoder and an encoding method, a decoder and a decoding method, and a program capable of reproducing music signal having a better sound quality by expansion of frequency band. An encoder sets an interval including 16 frames as interval section to be processed, outputs high band encoded data for obtaining the high band component of an input signal and low band encoded data obtained by encoding the low band signal of the input signal for each section to be processed. In this case, for each frame, a coefficient used in estimation of the high band component is selected and the section to be processed is divided into continuous frame segments including continuous frames from which the coefficient with the same section to be processed is selected.

Abstract: There is provided an input device including at least two microphones placed at different positions on a chassis to face different directions on one of space axes, a low-frequency bandwidth extracting part for extracting a low-frequency bandwidth signal from a signal input from the microphones, a phase difference calculating part for calculating a phase difference using the low-frequency bandwidth signal extracted by the low-frequency bandwidth extracting part; and a control signal generating part for generating a control signal based on the phase difference calculated by the phase difference calculating part.

Abstract: A player apparatus for playing an input signal after band-extending the input signal includes: an extension controller to determine an extension start band for the input signal in accordance with information relating to the input signal; and a band divider to divide the input signal into a plurality of sub-band signals. The frequency band is extended on the basis of a plurality of the sub-band signals on a side lower than the extension start band, among the plurality of sub-band signals into which the input signal is band-divided by the band divider.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a frequency band extending device and method, an encoding device and method, a decoding device and method, and a program, whereby music signals can be played with higher sound quality due to the extension of frequency bands. A bandpass filter 13 divides an input signal into multiple sub-band signals, a feature amount calculating circuit 14 calculates feature amount using at least one of the multiple divided sub-band signals and the input signal, a high frequency sub-band power estimating circuit 15 calculates an estimated value of a high frequency sub-band power based on the calculated feature amount, a high frequency signal generating circuit 16 generates a high frequency signal component based on the multiple sub-band signals divided by the bandpass filter 13, and the estimated value of the high frequency sub-band power calculated by the high frequency sub-band power estimating circuit 15.

Abstract: An audio signal processing device includes: a time-frequency analysis unit performing a time-frequency analysis of an input audio signal; a base factorization unit inputting learning data that is generated in advance based on an audio signal for learning including a sound from a plurality of sound sources and is made with base frequencies corresponding to the respective sound sources and carrying out base factorization of a time-frequency analysis result to the input audio signal inputted from the time-frequency analysis unit by applying a total base frequency that has the base frequencies corresponding to the respective sound sources combined therein to generate a base activity to the input audio signal; and a command identification unit inputting the base activity from the base factorization unit to carry out command identification by performing an identification process of the inputted base activity.

Abstract: A sound signal processing apparatus includes a frequency analysis unit which executes frequency analysis of an input sound signal; a low-frequency envelope calculating unit which calculates low-frequency envelope information as envelope information of a low-frequency band based on a result of the frequency analysis; a high-frequency envelope information estimating unit which applies learned data generated in advance based on a sound signal for learning and generates estimated high-frequency envelope information corresponding to an input signal from the low-frequency envelope information corresponding to the input sound signal; and a frequency synthesizing unit which synthesizes a high-frequency band signal corresponding to the estimated high-frequency envelope information generated by the high-frequency envelope information estimating unit with the input sound signal and generates an output sound signal in which a frequency band is expanded.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a frequency band extension apparatus and method, an encoding apparatus and method, a decoding apparatus and method, and a program, with which a music signal can be reproduced with higher sound quality by means of frequency band extension. Band-pass filters 13 obtain a plurality of subband signals from an input signal. A frequency envelope extracting circuit 14 extracts a frequency envelope from the plurality of subband signals obtained by the plurality of band-pass filters. A highband signal generating circuit 15 generates highband signal components on the basis of the frequency envelope obtained by the frequency envelope extracting circuit 14, and the plurality of subband signals obtained by the band-pass filters 13. A frequency band extension apparatus 10 extends the frequency band of the input signal on the basis of the highband signal components generated by the highband signal generating circuit 15.

Abstract: A player apparatus for playing an input signal after band-extending the input signal includes: an extension controller to determine an extension start band for the input signal in accordance with information relating to the input signal; and a band divider to divide the input signal into a plurality of sub-band signals. The frequency band is extended on the basis of a plurality of the sub-band signals on a side lower than the extension start band, among the plurality of sub-band signals into which the input signal is band-divided by the band divider.

Abstract: There is provided an audio coding device which appropriately sets the quantization bit number by a small calculation amount in each stage when coding an input audio signal by performing multi-stage normalization/quantization. A quantization information calculation section determines total quantization information idw10, based on normalization information idsf, and allocates the total quantization information idw10 for quantization information idw11 and quantization information idw12. At this time, the quantization information calculation section limits the quantization information idw11 by a limiter lim1, and allocates the total quantization information idw10 for quantization information idw11. If the quantization information idw11 exceeds the limiter lim1, the excess is allocated for the quantization information idw12. A first normalization section and a first quantization section normalizes and quantizes a frequency spectrum mdspec1 in the first stage.