Patents by Inventor Zexin Liu

Zexin Liu 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).

  • Patent number: 9899033
    Abstract: In a signal coding method, bits for coding allocated to different bands of a frequency domain signal obtained from an input signal are adjusted to improve the coding quality. The total available bits for coding are first allocated to the bands of the frequency domain signal according to a predetermined allocation rule. The numbers of bits allocated to the respective bands of the frequency domain signal are then adjusted when a highest frequency of the frequency domain signal to which bits are allocated is greater than a predetermined value. The frequency domain signal is coded according to the adjusted bit allocation for the bands of the frequency domain signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao, Fengyan Qi
  • Patent number: 9892739
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a signal decoding method and device. The method includes decoding a bit stream of a voice signal or an audio signal to acquire a decoded signal; predicting an excitation signal of an extension band according to the decoded signal, where the extension band is adjacent to a band of the decoded signal, and the band of the decoded signal is lower than the extension band; selecting a first band and a second band from the decoded signal, and predicting a spectral envelope of the extension band according to a spectral coefficient of the first band and a spectral coefficient of the second band; and determining a frequency-domain signal of the extension band according to the spectral envelope of the extension band and the excitation signal of the extension band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20180040326
    Abstract: A method and device for decoding a signal. The method for decoding a signal includes: obtaining spectral coefficients of sub-bands from a received bitstream by means of decoding; classifying sub-bands in which the spectral coefficients are located into a sub-band with saturated bit allocation and a sub-band with unsaturated bit allocation; performing noise filling on a spectral coefficient that has not been obtained by means of decoding and is in the sub-band with unsaturated bit allocation, so as to restore the spectral coefficient that has not been obtained by means of decoding; and obtaining a frequency domain signal according to the spectral coefficients obtained by means of decoding and the restored spectral coefficient. Therefore, a sub-band with unsaturated bit allocation in a frequency domain signal may be obtained by classification, thereby improving signal decoding quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Fengyan Qi, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 9875749
    Abstract: A method for predicting a bandwidth extension frequency band signal includes demultiplexing a received bitstream to obtain a frequency domain signal; determining whether a highest frequency bin, to which a bit is allocated, of the frequency domain signal is less than a preset start frequency bin of a bandwidth extension frequency band; predicting an excitation signal of the bandwidth extension frequency band according to the determination; and predicting the bandwidth extension frequency band signal according to the predicted excitation signal of the bandwidth extension frequency band and a frequency envelope of the bandwidth extension frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao, Fengyan Qi
  • Publication number: 20180018980
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application proposes a frequency envelope vector quantization method and apparatus, where the method includes: dividing N frequency envelopes in one frame into N1 vectors; quantizing a first vector in the N1 vectors by using a first codebook, to obtain a code word corresponding to the quantized first vector, where the first codebook is divided into 2B1 portions; determining, according to the code word corresponding to the quantized first vector; determining a second codebook according to the codebook of the ith portion; and quantizing a second vector in the N1 vectors based on the second codebook. In the embodiments of the present application, vector quantization can be performed on frequency envelope vectors by using a codebook with a smaller quantity of bits. Therefore, complexity of vector quantization can be reduced, and an effect of vector quantization can also be ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Chen Hu, Lei Miao, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20180018989
    Abstract: An audio signal encoding and decoding method, an audio signal encoding and decoding apparatus, a transmitter, a receiver, and a communications system, which can improve encoding and/or decoding performance. The audio signal encoding method includes dividing a to-be-encoded time domain signal into a low band signal and a high band signal; encoding the low band signal to obtain a low frequency encoding parameter; calculating a voiced degree factor, and predicting a high band excitation signal; weighting the high band excitation signal and random noise using the voiced degree factor, so as to obtain a synthesized excitation signal; and obtaining a high frequency encoding parameter based on the synthesized excitation signal and the high band signal. Technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention can improve an encoding or decoding effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Bin Wang, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20180005638
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing a temporal envelope of an audio signal, and an encoder are disclosed. When multiple temporal envelopes are solved, continuity of signal energy can be well maintained, and in addition, complexity of calculating a temporal envelope is reduced. The method includes: obtaining a high-band signal of the current frame audio signal according to the received current frame audio signal; dividing the high-band signal of the current frame signal into M subframes according to a predetermined temporal envelope quantity M, where M is an integer that is greater than or equal to 2; calculating a temporal envelope of each of the subframes; performing windowing on the first subframe of the M subframes and the last subframe of the M subframes by using an asymmetric window function; and performing windowing on a subframe except the first subframe and the last subframe of the M subframes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20170372713
    Abstract: An encoding method, a decoding method, an encoding apparatus, a decoding apparatus, a transmitter, a receiver, and a communications system. The encoding method includes: dividing a to-be-encoded time-domain signal into a low band signal and a high band signal; performing encoding on the low band signal to obtain a low frequency encoding parameter; performing encoding on the high band signal to obtain a high frequency encoding parameter, and obtaining a synthesized high band signal; performing short-time post-filtering processing on the synthesized high band signal to obtain a short-time filtering signal; and calculating a high frequency gain based on the high band signal and the short-time filtering signal. A technical solution according to the embodiments of the present application can improve an encoding and/or decoding effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20170372715
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a coding/decoding method, apparatus, and system. According to the coding method, de-emphasis processing is performed on a full band signal by using a de-emphasis parameter determined according to a characteristic factor of an input audio signal, and then the full band signal is coded and sent to a decoder, so that the decoder performs corresponding de-emphasis decoding processing on the full band signal according to the characteristic factor of the input audio signal and restores the input audio signal. This resolves a prior-art problem that an audio signal restored by a decoder is apt to have signal distortion, and implements adaptive de-emphasis processing on the full band signal according to the characteristic factor of the audio signal to enhance coding performance, so that the input audio signal restored by the decoder has relatively high fidelity and is closer to an original signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20170372716
    Abstract: An audio coding method and apparatus, where the method includes, for each audio frame in audio, when a signal characteristic of the audio frame and a signal characteristic of a previous audio frame meet a preset modification condition, determining a first modification weight according to linear spectral frequency (LSF) differences of the audio frame and the LSF differences of the previous audio frame, modifying a linear predictive parameter of the audio frame according to the determined first modification weight, and coding the audio frame according to a modified linear predictive parameter of the audio frame. According to the present disclosure, audio having a wider bandwidth can be coded while a bit rate remains unchanged or a bit rate slightly changes and a spectrum between audio frames is steadier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Bin Wang, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 9852738
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for recovering a lost frame in a received audio signal. The method for recovering a lost frame includes: determining an initial high-frequency band signal of a current lost frame; determining a gain of the current lost frame; determining gain adjustment information of the current lost frame; adjusting the gain of the current lost frame according to the gain adjustment information, to obtain an adjusted gain of the current lost frame; and adjusting the initial high-band signal according to the adjusted gain, to obtain a high-frequency band signal of the current lost frame. The method and the apparatus for recovering a lost frame provided in the embodiments of the present application can be used in an audio signal decoding process for low-loss recovery of a lost frame of the audio signal, resulting in improved performance of an audio signal decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20170352358
    Abstract: Present disclosure pertains to an audio signal processing method and device. A current frame of a frequency-domain audio signal has N frequency sub-bands. According to an energy attribute and a spectral attribute of a first subset of M sub-bands, whether to adjust envelope values of the M sub-bands is determined. Based on a determination that the energy envelope values of the M sub-bands need to be adjusted, the energy envelope values of the M sub-bands are modified individually to obtain modified envelope values of the M sub-bands. Encoding bits are allocated to each of the N sub-bands according to the adjusted envelope values of the M sub-bands and energy envelope information of K sub-bands of a second subset. The first subset and the second subset have no overlap in frequency, and N=M+K.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Lei Miao, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20170352359
    Abstract: In a signal coding method, bits for coding allocated to different bands of a frequency domain signal obtained from an input signal are adjusted to improve the coding quality. The total available bits for coding are first allocated to the bands of the frequency domain signal according to a predetermined allocation rule. The numbers of bits allocated to the respective bands of the frequency domain signal are then adjusted when a highest frequency of the frequency domain signal to which bits are allocated is greater than a predetermined value. The frequency domain signal is coded according to the adjusted bit allocation for the bands of the frequency domain signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao, Fengyan Qi
  • Patent number: 9837088
    Abstract: Present disclosure provides a signal processing method and device. Spectral coefficients of a current frame of a frequency-domain audio signal are divided into N sub-bands. N is a positive integer greater than 1. According to an energy attribute and a spectral attribute of a first subset of the N sub-bands, whether to modify original envelope values of sub-bands in the first subset is determined. A frequency range of each of the M sub-bands in the first subset is lower than a frequency range of each of the K sub-bands. Based on a determination that the original envelope values of the M sub-bands need to be modified, the original envelope values of the M sub-bands are modified individually to obtain modified envelope values of the M sub-bands. Encoding bits are allocated to each of the N sub-bands according to the modified envelope values of the M sub-bands and original envelope values of the K sub-bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Lei Miao, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20170346954
    Abstract: Present disclosure disclose a voice signal processing method, includes: receiving a first voice coded signal from a first terminal; performing voice decoding processing on the first voice coded signal to obtain a voice decoding parameter and a first voice decoded signal; performing, by using the voice decoding parameter, virtual bandwidth extension processing to obtain a bandwidth extension voice decoded signal corresponding to the first voice decoded signal; after combining the first voice decoded signal and the bandwidth extension voice decoded signal, performing voice coding processing to obtain a second voice coded signal; and sending the second voice coded signal to a second terminal that establishes a call connection to the first terminal, where a maximum frequency bandwidth supported by the first terminal is less than a maximum frequency bandwidth supported by the second terminal. Thus, Service quality of terminals that have asymmetric maximum frequency bandwidth support capabilities can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin WANG, Bingyin Xia, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 9830914
    Abstract: A method and device for decoding a signal. The method for decoding a signal includes: obtaining spectral coefficients of sub-bands from a received bitstream by means of decoding; classifying sub-bands in which the spectral coefficients are located into a sub-band with saturated bit allocation and a sub-band with unsaturated bit allocation; performing noise filling on a spectral coefficient that has not been obtained by means of decoding and is in the sub-band with unsaturated bit allocation, so as to restore the spectral coefficient that has not been obtained by means of decoding; and obtaining a frequency domain signal according to the spectral coefficients obtained by means of decoding and the restored spectral coefficient. Therefore, a sub-band with unsaturated bit allocation in a frequency domain signal may be obtained by classification, thereby improving signal decoding quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Fengyan Qi, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 9812143
    Abstract: An audio coding method and apparatus, where the method includes, for each audio frame in audio, when a signal characteristic of the audio frame and a signal characteristic of a previous audio frame meet a preset modification condition, determining a first modification weight according to linear spectral frequency (LSF) differences of the audio frame and LSF differences of the previous audio frame, modifying a linear predictive parameter of the audio frame according to the determined first modification weight, and coding the audio frame according to a modified linear predictive parameter of the audio frame. According to the present disclosure, audio having a wider bandwidth can be coded while a bit rate remains unchanged or a bit rate slightly changes and a spectrum between audio frames is steadier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Bin Wang, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20170316789
    Abstract: A method and a device for encoding a high frequency signal, and a method and a device for decoding a high frequency signal are provided, which relate to encoding and decoding technology. The method for encoding a high frequency signal includes: determining a signal type of a high frequency signal of a current frame; smoothing and scaling time envelopes of the high frequency signal of the current frame and obtaining time envelopes of the high frequency signal of the current frame that require to be encoded, if the high frequency signal of the current frame is a non-transient signal and a high frequency signal of the previous frame is a transient signal; and quantizing and encoding the time envelopes of the high frequency signal of the current frame that require to be encoded, and frequency information and signal type information of the high frequency signal of the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao, Anisse Taleb
  • Publication number: 20170316784
    Abstract: Present disclosure provide an audio signal encoding method and encoder, which relate to the communications field and can perform proper bit allocation for spectral coefficients of an audio signal. The method includes: splitting spectral coefficients of a current frame into subbands, acquiring quantized energy envelopes of the subbands; adjusting quantized energy envelopes values of some subbands; perform bit allocation according to adjusted quantized energy envelopes of the some subbands; quantizing a spectral coefficient of a subband to which at least one bit is allocated after the bit allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Bin Wang, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 9805732
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application proposes a frequency envelope vector quantization method and apparatus, where the method includes: dividing N frequency envelopes in one frame into N1 vectors; quantizing a first vector in the N1 vectors by using a first codebook, to obtain a code word corresponding to the quantized first vector, where the first codebook is divided into 2B1 portions; determining, according to the code word corresponding to the quantized first vector; determining a second codebook according to the codebook of the ith portion; and quantizing a second vector in the N1 vectors based on the second codebook. In the embodiments of the present application, vector quantization can be performed on frequency envelope vectors by using a codebook with a smaller quantity of bits. Therefore, complexity of vector quantization can be reduced, and an effect of vector quantization can also be ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chen Hu, Lei Miao, Zexin Liu