Patents by Inventor Zongxian Liu
Zongxian 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).
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Publication number: 20190122679Abstract: An audio signal decoding apparatus is provided that includes a receiver that receives an encoded information, a memory, and a processor that demultiplexes the encoded information, including encoding parameters that are used for decoding a low frequency spectrum and index information that identifies a most, correlated portion from a low frequency spectrum for one or more high frequency subbands. The processor also replicates a high frequency subband spectrum based on the index information using a synthesized low frequency spectrum, the synthesized low frequency spectrum being obtained by decoding the encoding parameters. The processor further estimates a frequency of a harmonic component in the synthesized low frequency spectrum, adjusts a frequency of a harmonic component in the high frequency subband spectrum using the estimated harmonic frequency, and generates an output signal using the synthesized low frequency spectrum and the high frequency subband spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Srikanth NAGISETTY, Zongxian LIU
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Patent number: 10204632Abstract: An audio/speech encoding apparatus/method and an audio/speech decoding apparatus/method are provided. The audio/speech encoding apparatus includes a memory that stores instructions, and a processor that performs operations. The operations include transforming a time domain input audio/speech signal to a frequency spectrum, dividing the frequency spectrum to a plural of bands, calculating norm factors, and quantizing the norm factors. The operations also include calculating differential indices between an Nth band index and an (N?1)th band index, and modifying a range of the differential indices for the Nth band when N is 2 or more. The operations further include replacing the differential index with the modified differential index, and not modifying a range of the differential indices for the Nth band when N is 1. The apparatus encodes the differential indices using a selected Huffman table, and transmits the encoded differential indices and a flag signal over a communication network.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Zongxian Liu, Kok Seng Chong, Masahiro Oshikiri
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Publication number: 20190027155Abstract: Provided are a voice audio encoding device, voice audio decoding device, voice audio encoding method, and voice audio decoding method that efficiently perform bit distribution and improve sound quality. Dominant frequency band identification unit identifies a dominant frequency band having a norm factor value that is the maximum value within the spectrum of an input voice audio signal. Dominant group determination units and non-dominant group determination unit group all sub-bands into a dominant group that contains the dominant frequency band and a non-dominant group that contains no dominant frequency band. Group bit distribution unit distributes bits to each group on the basis of the energy and norm variance of each group. Sub-band bit distribution unit redistributes the bits that have been distributed to each group to each sub-band in accordance with the ratio of the norm to the energy of the groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Zongxian Liu, Srikanth Nagisetty, Masahiro Oshikiri
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Patent number: 10157622Abstract: An audio signal decoding apparatus is provided that includes a receiver that receives an encoded information, a memory, and a processor that demultiplexes the encoded information, including encoding parameters that are used for decoding a low frequency spectrum and index information that identifies a most correlated portion from a low frequency spectrum for one or more high frequency subbands. The processor also replicates a high frequency subband spectrum based on the index information using a synthesized low frequency spectrum, the synthesized low frequency spectrum being obtained by decoding the encoding parameters. The processor further estimates a frequency of a harmonic component in the synthesized low frequency spectrum, adjusts a frequency of a harmonic component in the high frequency subband spectrum using the estimated harmonic frequency, and generates an output signal using the synthesized low frequency spectrum and the high frequency subband spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Srikanth Nagisetty, Zongxian Liu
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Patent number: 10102865Abstract: Provided are a voice audio encoding device, voice audio decoding device, voice audio encoding method, and voice audio decoding method that efficiently perform bit distribution and improve sound quality. Dominant frequency band identification unit identifies a dominant frequency band having a norm factor value that is the maximum value within the spectrum of an input voice audio signal. Dominant group determination units and non-dominant group determination unit group all sub-bands into a dominant group that contains the dominant frequency band and a non-dominant group that contains no dominant frequency band. Group bit distribution unit distributes bits to each group on the basis of the energy and norm variance of each group. Sub-band bit distribution unit redistributes the bits that have been distributed to each group to each sub-band in accordance with the ratio of the norm to the energy of the groups.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Zongxian Liu, Srikanth Nagisetty, Masahiro Oshikiri
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Publication number: 20180277131Abstract: An apparatus for decoding a surround audio signal includes a Bitstream De-multiplexer for unpacking a bitstream into spatial parameters and core parameters, a set of core decoders for decoding the core parameters into a set of core signals, a matrix derivation unit for deriving the rendering matrix from the spatial parameters and playback speaker layout information, and a renderer for rendering of the decoded core signals to playback signals using the rendering matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Zongxian LIU, Naoya TANAKA
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Patent number: 10013993Abstract: An apparatus for decoding surround audio signal, includes a Bitstream De-multiplexer for unpacking a bitstream into spatial parameters and core parameters, a set of Core Decoder for decoding the core parameters into a set of core signal, a matrix derivation unit for deriving the rendering matrix from the spatial parameters and playback speaker layout information, a renderer for rendering of the decoded core signal to playback signals using the rendering matrix.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Zongxian Liu, Naoya Tanaka
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Publication number: 20180166086Abstract: An audio/speech encoding apparatus/method and an audio/speech decoding apparatus/method are provided. The audio/speech encoding apparatus includes a memory that stores instructions, and a processor that performs operations. The operations include transforming a time domain input audio/speech signal to a frequency spectrum, dividing the frequency spectrum to a plural of bands, calculating norm factors, and quantizing the norm factors. The operations also include calculating differential indices between an Nth band index and an (N?1)th band index, and modifying a range of the differential indices for the Nth band when N is 2 or more. The operations further include replacing the differential index with the modified differential index, and not modifying a range of the differential indices for the Nth band when N is 1. The apparatus encodes the differential indices using a selected Huffman table, and transmits the encoded differential indices and a flag signal over a communication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Zongxian Liu, Kok Seng Chong, Masahiro Oshikiri
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Patent number: 9881625Abstract: In this invention, the design of the Huffman table can be done offline with a large input sequence database. The range of the quantization indices (or differential indices) for Huffman coding is identified. For each value of range, all the input signal which have the same range will be gathered and the probability distribution of each value of the quantization indices (or differential indices) within the range is calculated. For each value of range, one Huffman table is designed according to the probability. And in order to improve the bits efficiency of the Huffman coding, apparatus and methods to reduce the range of the quantization indices (or differential indices) are also introduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Zongxian Liu, Kok Seng Chong, Masahiro Oshikiri
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Publication number: 20170345431Abstract: Provided are a voice audio encoding device, voice audio decoding device, voice audio encoding method, and voice audio decoding method that efficiently perform bit distribution and improve sound quality. Dominant frequency band identification unit identifies a dominant frequency band having a norm factor value that is the maximum value within the spectrum of an input voice audio signal. Dominant group determination units and non-dominant group determination unit group all sub-bands into a dominant group that contains the dominant frequency band and a non-dominant group that contains no dominant frequency band. Group bit distribution unit distributes bits to each group on the basis of the energy and norm variance of each group. Sub-band bit distribution unit redistributes the bits that have been distributed to each group to each sub-band in accordance with the ratio of the norm to the energy of the groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Zongxian LIU, Srikanth NAGISETTY, Masahiro OSHIKIRI
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Patent number: 9830919Abstract: An acoustic signal coding apparatus includes a subband classifier that classifies subbands obtained by dividing a frequency-domain spectrum into a plurality of perceptually important first-category subbands and the other subbands referred to as second-category subbands according to at least one of measures in terms of energy and peak property, a subband peak-algebraic vector quantization (SBP-AVQ) vector generator that generates an SBP-AVQ vector by collecting a maximum peak from each first-category subband, outputs the generated SBP-AVQ vector, and outputs peak position information indicating the positions of the maximum peaks, a bit distributor that distributes bits for AVQ coding to the SBP-AVQ vector and the second-category subband vector, and an AVQ coder that performs AVQ coding on the SBP-AVQ vector and the second-category subband vector.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Srikanth Nagisetty, Zongxian Liu, Hiroyuki Ehara
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Publication number: 20170323649Abstract: An audio signal decoding apparatus is provided that includes a receiver that receives an encoded information, a memory, and a processor that demultiplexes the encoded information, including encoding parameters that are used for decoding a low frequency spectrum and index information that identifies a most correlated portion from a low frequency spectrum for one or more high frequency subbands. The processor also replicates a high frequency subband spectrum based on the index information using a synthesized low frequency spectrum, the synthesized low frequency spectrum being obtained by decoding the encoding parameters. The processor further estimates a frequency of a harmonic component in the synthesized low frequency spectrum, adjusts a frequency of a harmonic component in the high frequency subband spectrum using the estimated harmonic frequency, and generates an output signal using the synthesized low frequency spectrum and the high frequency subband spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Srikanth NAGISETTY, Zongxian LIU
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Audio encoding apparatus, audio decoding apparatus, audio encoding method, and audio decoding method
Patent number: 9786292Abstract: An audio encoding apparatus capable of reducing the bit rate even if a codebook having a larger codebook number is selected in a split multi-rate lattice vector quantization is provided. Sub-vector determining unit (121) determines, in the spectrum of an input signal having been divided into a predetermined number of sub-vectors, a sub-vector using the largest number of bits. Positional information encoding unit (122) encodes the positional information of the determined sub-vector. Codebook indication value estimating unit (124) estimates a number of used bits for a codebook indication value of the largest number of used bits by use of the (N?1) other codebook indication values, and generates a number-of-used-bits estimation value. Difference calculating unit (125) calculates a difference by subtracting the number-of-used-bits estimation value from the actual value of the codebook indication value of the largest number of used bits. Difference encoding unit (126) encodes the difference information.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Zongxian Liu, Masahiro Oshikiri -
Patent number: 9767815Abstract: Provided are a voice audio encoding device, voice audio decoding device, voice audio encoding method, and voice audio decoding method that efficiently perform bit distribution and improve sound quality. Dominant frequency band identification unit identifies a dominant frequency band having a norm factor value that is the maximum value within the spectrum of an input voice audio signal. Dominant group determination units and non-dominant group determination unit group all sub-bands into a dominant group that contains the dominant frequency band and a non-dominant group that contains no dominant frequency band. Group bit distribution unit distributes bits to each group on the basis of the energy and norm variance of each group. Sub-band bit distribution unit redistributes the bits that have been distributed to each group to each sub-band in accordance with the ratio of the norm to the energy of the groups.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Zongxian Liu, Srikanth Nagisetty, Masahiro Oshikiri
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Patent number: 9747908Abstract: An audio signal decoding apparatus is provided that includes a receiver that receives an encoded information, a memory, and a processor that demultiplexes low-band encoding parameters, index information, and scale factor information from the encoded information. The processor also decodes the low-band encoding parameters to obtain a synthesized low frequency spectrum, replicates a high frequency subband spectrum based on the index information using the synthesized low frequency spectrum, and adjusts an amplitude of the replicated high frequency subband spectrum using the scale factor information. The processor further estimates a frequency of a harmonic component in the synthesized low frequency spectrum, adjusts a frequency of a harmonic component in the high frequency subband spectrum using the estimated harmonic frequency spectrum, and generates an output signal using the synthesized low frequency spectrum and the high frequency subband spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Srikanth Nagisetty, Zongxian Liu
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Publication number: 20170025130Abstract: An audio signal decoding apparatus is provided that includes a receiver that receives an encoded information, a memory, and a processor that demultiplexes low-band encoding parameters, index information, and scale factor information from the encoded information. The processor also decodes the low-band encoding parameters to obtain a synthesized low frequency spectrum, replicates a high frequency subband spectrum based on the index information using the synthesized low frequency spectrum, and adjusts an amplitude of the replicated high frequency subband spectrum using the scale factor information. The processor further estimates a frequency of a harmonic component in the synthesized low frequency spectrum, adjusts a frequency of a harmonic component in the high frequency subband spectrum using the estimated harmonic frequency spectrum, and generates an output signal using the synthesized low frequency spectrum and the high frequency subband spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Srikanth NAGISETTY, Zongxian LIU
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Publication number: 20170011750Abstract: An apparatus for decoding surround audio signal, includes a Bitstream De-multiplexer for unpacking a bitstream into spatial parameters and core parameters, a set of Core Decoder for decoding the core parameters into a set of core signal, a matrix derivation unit for deriving the rendering matrix from the spatial parameters and playback speaker layout information, a renderer for rendering of the decoded core signal to playback signals using the rendering matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Zongxian LIU, Naoya TANAKA
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Patent number: 9489959Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to more efficiently extend, using a low bit rate, the bandwidth of input signals having a harmonics structure, in order to obtain better audio quality. The present invention is installed in a device that extends bandwidth for audio signal encoding and decoding. This novel bandwidth extension encoding identifies a low-frequency spectrum component having the highest correlation to a high-frequency bandwidth signal among input signals, duplicates a high-frequency spectrum by energy adjustment of said component, and maintains the harmonic relationship between the low-frequency spectrum and the duplicated high-frequency spectrum by adjusting the spectral peak position of the duplicated high-frequency spectrum, on the basis of a harmonic frequency estimated from a composite low-frequency spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Srikanth Nagisetty, Zongxian Liu
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Patent number: 9454972Abstract: This invention introduces audio/speech encoding apparatus audio/speech decoding apparatus, audio/speech encoding method and audio/speech decoding method to efficiently encode the quantization parameters of split multi-rate lattice vector quantization. In this invention, the position of the sub-vector whose codebook indication consumes the most bits is firstly located, and then the value of the codebook is estimated based on the total number of bits available and the bits usage information for other sub-vectors. The difference value is calculated between the actual value and estimated value. Finally, instead of transmitting the codebook indication which consumes the most bits, the position of the sub-vector whose codebook indication consumes the most bits and the difference value between the actual value and the estimated value are transmitted. By applying of the invented method, bits can be saved by the codebook indications.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2013Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Zongxian Liu, Srikanth Nagisetty, Masahiro Oshikiri
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Publication number: 20160189722Abstract: An acoustic signal coding apparatus includes a subband classifier that classifies subbands obtained by dividing a frequency-domain spectrum into a plurality of perceptually important first-category subbands and the other subbands referred to as second-category subbands according to at least one of measures in terms of energy and peak property, an SBP-AVQ vector generator that generates an SBP-AVQ vector by collecting a maximum peak from each first-category subband, outputs the generated SBP-AVQ vector, and outputs peak position information indicating the positions of the maximum peaks, a bit distributor that distributes bits for AVQ coding to the SBP-AVQ vector and the second-category subband vector, and an AVQ coder that performs AVQ coding on the SBP-AVQ vector and the second-category subband vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2016Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventors: SRIKANTH NAGISETTY, ZONGXIAN LIU, HIROYUKI EHARA