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).

  • Publication number: 20190325884
    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: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao, Fengyan Qi
  • Publication number: 20190318747
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a speech/audio signal processing method and apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Zexin LIU, Lei MIAO
  • Publication number: 20190272838
    Abstract: A decoder for processing an audio signal receives an audio bitstream, decodes the bitstream to obtain a set of spectral frequency parameters that are arranged in an order of frequencies, determines a minimum spectral frequency parameter difference from a plurality of calculated spectral frequency parameter differences, determines a start frequency bin for predicting a high band excitation signal according to the minimum spectral frequency parameter difference, generates the high band excitation signal by selecting a frequency band with a preset bandwidth selected from a low band excitation signal according to the start frequency bin, and synthesizes a wideband signal based on the generated high band excitation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Zexin LIU, Lei MIAO
  • Publication number: 20190267015
    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: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Lei Miao, Zexin Liu
  • Patent number: 10388295
    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: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao, Fengyan Qi
  • Publication number: 20190251980
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates methods and apparatus for recovering a lost frame in a received audio signal. One example method includes obtaining an initial high-frequency band signal of a current lost frame in the received audio signal, calculating a ratio R, where the ratio R is a ratio of a high frequency excitation energy of a previous frame of the current lost frame to a high frequency excitation energy of the current lost frame, obtaining a global gain of the current lost frame according to the ratio R and a global gain of the previous frame of the current lost frame, and recovering a high-frequency band signal of the current lost frame according to the initial high-frequency band signal of the current lost frame and the global gain of the current lost frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Bin WANG, Zexin LIU, Lei MIAO
  • Patent number: 10373629
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Bin Wang, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 10366697
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao, Anisse Taleb
  • Patent number: 10360917
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a speech/audio signal processing method and apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 10354659
    Abstract: A frame loss compensation processing method and apparatus is presented, where the method includes, when a ith frame is a lost frame, estimating a spectrum frequency parameter, a pitch period, and a gain of the ith frame according to at least one of an inter-frame relationship between first N frames of the ith frame or an intra-frame relationship between first N frames of the ith frame. A parameter of the ith frame is determined using the signal correlation between the first N frames, the signal energy stability between the first N frames, intra-frame signal correlation of each frame, and intra-frame signal energy stability of each frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Bin Wang, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20190214025
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 10347264
    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: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Lei Miao, Zexin Liu
  • Patent number: 10347257
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Bin Wang, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 10339944
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for predicting a high band excitation signal are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring, according to a received low band bitstream, a set of spectral frequency parameters that are arranged in an order of frequencies, calculating a spectral frequency parameter difference between every two spectral frequency parameters that have a same position interval; acquiring a minimum spectral frequency parameter difference from the calculated spectral frequency parameter differences; determining, according to a frequency bin that corresponds to the minimum spectral frequency parameter difference, a start frequency bin for predicting a high band excitation signal from a low band; and predicting the high band excitation signal from the low band according to the start frequency bin. By implementing embodiments of the present invention, a high band excitation signal can be better predicted, thereby improving performance of the high band excitation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 10339945
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20190189134
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20190172474
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 10311885
    Abstract: A method for recovering a lost frame in a received audio signal includes: obtaining an initial high-frequency band signal of a current lost frame in the received audio signal; calculating a ratio R, wherein the ratio R is a ratio of a high frequency excitation energy of a previous frame of the current lost frame to a high frequency excitation energy of the current lost frame; obtaining a global gain of the current lost frame according to the ratio R and a global gain of the previous frame of the current lost frame; and recovering a high-frequency band signal of the current lost frame according to the initial high-frequency band signal of the current lost frame and the global gain of the current lost frame. The method can be used in an audio signal decoding process for low-loss recovery of lost frames of the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20190164562
    Abstract: An audio encoding method and a related apparatus, where the audio coding method includes obtaining an audio signal, obtaining some subband parameters of a current frame of the audio signal, and encoding the current frame using a high quality transform coding (HQ) algorithm based on the obtained subband parameters. The audio encoding method and the related apparatus help improve encoding quality or encoding efficiency in audio signal encoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20190156839
    Abstract: A method and device for decoding a signal, where the method for decoding the signal includes obtaining spectral coefficients of sub-bands from a received bitstream by 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 decoding and is in the sub-band with unsaturated bit allocation to restore the spectral coefficient that has not been obtained by decoding, and obtaining a frequency domain signal according to the spectral coefficients obtained by 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: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Fengyan Qi, Lei Miao