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: 11832087
    Abstract: A multi-channel signal encoding method includes determining a downmixed signal of a first channel signal and a second channel signal in a multi-channel signal, and reverberation gain parameters corresponding to different subbands of the first channel signal and the second channel signal, where the obtained reverberation gain parameters are belonging to at least two reverberation gain parameter groups. The method further includes selecting, from the at least two reverberation gain parameter groups, a target reverberation gain parameter group. The method further includes generating parameter indication information, where the parameter indication information indicates the target reverberation gain parameter group. The method further includes encoding reverberation gain parameters corresponding to the target reverberation gain parameter group, the parameter indication information, and the downmixed signal to obtain a bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 11823687
    Abstract: In a method to decode signals, a computing device decodes spectral coefficients of a current frame are grouped into a plurality of sub-bands. The computing device classifies a sub-band as a bit allocation unsaturated sub-band based on an average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient of a sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands and a threshold. The computing device obtains a noise filling gain based on an envelope of the sub-band, and obtains a reconstructed spectral coefficient of the sub-band by performing noise filling based on the noise filling gain. The computing device then obtains a frequency domain audio signal based on spectral coefficients in the sub-band obtained by decoding and the reconstructed spectral coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Fengyan Qi, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20230298604
    Abstract: A 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 when 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: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao, Anisse Taleb
  • Patent number: 11756557
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Halting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20230238010
    Abstract: A signal processing method and device includes obtaining spectral coefficients of a current frame of an audio signal, in which N sub-bands of the current frame comprises at least one of the spectral coefficients. A total energy of M successive sub-bands of the N sub-bands, a total energy of K successive sub-bands of the N sub-bands, and an energy of a first sub-band are obtained to determine whether to modify original envelope values of the M sub-bands. When the original envelope values of the M sub-bands are modified, encoding bits are allocated to each of the N sub-bands according to the modified envelope values of the M sub-bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Lei Miao, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20230206929
    Abstract: In a method to decode signals, a computing device decodes spectral coefficients of a current frame are grouped into a plurality of sub-bands. The computing device classifies a sub-band as a bit allocation unsaturated sub-band based on an average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient of a sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands and a threshold. The computing device obtains a noise filling gain based on an envelope of the sub-band, and obtains a reconstructed spectral coefficient of the sub-band by performing noise filling based on the noise filling gain. The computing device then obtains a frequency domain audio signal based on spectral coefficients in the sub-band obtained by decoding and the reconstructed spectral coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Fengyan Qi, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20230199424
    Abstract: An audio processing method includes processing, by M first virtual speakers, a to-be-processed audio signal to obtain M first audio signals; processing, by N second virtual speakers, the to-be-processed audio signal to obtain N second audio signals; obtain M first head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) centered at a left ear position and N second HRTFs centered at a right ear position; obtain a first target audio signal based on the M first audio signals and the M first HRTFs; and obtain a second target audio signal based on the N second audio signals and the N second HRTFs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Cal Armstrong, Gavin Kearney, Bin Wang, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20230131892
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Xingtao ZHANG, Haiting LI, Zexin LIU, Lei MIAO
  • Publication number: 20230119826
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for determining a weighting factor during stereo signal encoding. In those embodiments, a parameter value corresponding to the encoding mode of the to-be-encoded signal is determined based on an encoding mode of a to-be-encoded signal in a stereo signal and a correspondence between an encoding mode and a parameter value. Based on the determined parameter value and an energy spectrum of a linear prediction filter corresponding to an original line spectral frequency parameter of the to-be-encoded signal, a weighting factor for calculating a distance between the original line spectral frequency parameter and a target original line spectral frequency parameter is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Eyal SHLOMOT, Haiting LI, Zexin LIU
  • Patent number: 11611841
    Abstract: An audio processing method includes: M first audio signals are obtained by processing a to-be-processed audio signal by M first virtual speakers; N second audio signals are obtained by processing the to-be-processed audio signal by N second virtual speakers; M first head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) centered at a left ear position and N second HRTFs centered at a right ear position are obtained; a first target audio signal is obtained based on the M first audio signals and the M first HRTFs; and a second target audio signal is obtained based on the N second audio signals and the N second HRTFs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cal Armstrong, Gavin Kearney, Bin Wang, Zexin Liu
  • Patent number: 11610592
    Abstract: An audio signal decoding device includes a non-transitory memory storage stores audio data in a form of a bitstream; and an audio decoder, by which a first spectral coefficient of a first sub-band of a current frame of an audio signal by decoding the bitstream is obtained; a first average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient of the first sub-band is obtained; a first noise filling gain for the first sub-band is obtained when the first average quantity is less than a threshold; a second spectral coefficient is reconstructed according to the first noise filling gain; a frequency domain audio signal is obtained according to the first spectral coefficient and the second spectral coefficient; and a time domain audio signal is generated according to the frequency domain signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Fengyan Qi, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 11587572
    Abstract: A stereo signal encoding method includes obtaining indication information of an encoding mode of a residual signal of a current frame, where the indication information includes at least one of an encoding status of a residual signal of a previous frame, a value of an updating manner flag for a long-term smooth parameter of the current frame, or a value of a status change parameter of the current frame relative to a stereo signal of the previous frame, and determining the encoding mode of the residual signal of the current frame based on the indication information of the encoding mode of the residual signal of the current frame, where the encoding mode indicates whether to encode the residual signal of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Zexin Liu, Haiting Li
  • Patent number: 11580998
    Abstract: A 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 when 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: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CRYSTAL CLEAR CODEC, LLC
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao, Anisse Taleb
  • Patent number: 11580996
    Abstract: A signal processing method and device includes obtaining spectral coefficients of a current frame of an audio signal, in which N sub-bands of the current frame comprises at least one of the spectral coefficients. A total energy of M successive sub-bands of the N sub-bands, a total energy of K successive sub-bands of the N sub-bands, and an energy of a first sub-band are obtained to determine whether to modify original envelope values of the M sub-bands. When the original envelope values of the M sub-bands are modified, encoding bits are allocated to each of the N sub-bands according to the modified envelope values of the M sub-bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Lei Miao, Zexin Liu
  • Patent number: 11568882
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 11551701
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for determining a weighting factor during stereo signal encoding. In those embodiments, a parameter value corresponding to the encoding mode of the to-be-encoded signal is determining based on an encoding mode of a to-be-encoded signal in a stereo signal and a correspondence between an encoding mode and a parameter value. Based on the determined parameter value and an energy spectrum of a linear prediction filter corresponding to an original line spectral frequency parameter of the to-be-encoded signal is a weighting factor for calculating a distance between the original line spectral frequency parameter and a target original line spectral frequency parameter is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Halting Li, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20220392470
    Abstract: A stereo signal encoding method includes: obtaining a residual signal encoding parameter of a current frame of a stereo signal based on downmixed signal energy and residual signal energy of each of M sub-bands of the current frame, where the residual signal encoding parameter indicates whether to encode residual signals of the M sub-bands; determining whether to encode the residual signals based on the residual signal encoding parameter; and encoding the residual signals when it is determined that the residual signals need to be encoded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Zexin Liu, Haiting Li
  • Publication number: 20220386064
    Abstract: M audio signals are obtained by processing an audio signal by M virtual speakers; M first HRTFs and M second HRTFs are obtained, where the M first HRTFs corresponding to a left ear position, and the M second HRTFs corresponding to a right ear position; high-band impulse responses of some of the M first HRTFs are modified to obtain modified first target HRTFs, and high-band impulse responses of some of the M second HRTFs are modified to obtain modified second target HRTFs; a first target audio signal corresponding to the left ear position is obtained based on the modified first target HRTFs and un-modified first HRTFs, and the M audio signals; and a second target audio signal corresponding to the right ear position is obtained based on the modified second HRTFs, un-modified second target HRTFs, and the M audio signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Gavin KEARNEY, Cal ARMSTRONG, Bin WANG, Zexin LIU
  • Publication number: 20220366922
    Abstract: An 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, 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20220328053
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao