Device and method for reducing quantization noise in a time-domain decoder

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PATENT NO 9870781
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15187464

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The present disclosure relates to a device and method for reducing quantization noise in a sound signal contained in a time-domain excitation decoded by a time-domain decoder. A future frame time-domain excitation is evaluated based on the decoded time-domain excitation. A concatenated time-domain excitation is produced from the decoded time-domain excitation of the time-domain excitation of the future frame and is converted into a frequency-domain excitation. A weighting mask is produced for retrieving spectral information lost in the quantization noise. The frequency-domain excitation is modified to increase spectral dynamics by application of the weighting mask. The modified frequency-domain excitation is converted into a modified time-domain excitation. The latter conversion is delay-less. In an embodiment, the weighting mask may be produced using time averaging or frequency averaging or a combination of time and frequency averaging of the frequency-domain excitation. The method and device can be used for improving music content rendering of linear-prediction (LP) based codecs.

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Jelinek, Milan Sherbrooke, CA 30 1271
Vaillancourt, Tommy Sherbrooke, CA 19 344

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