Abstract
A parametric background noise estimate is continuously updated during an active or non-silence phase so that the noise generation may immediately be started with upon the entrance of an inactive phase following the active phase. In accordance with another aspect a spectral domain is very efficiently used in order to parameterize the background noise thereby yielding a background noise synthesis which is more realistic and thus leads to a more transparent active to inactive phase switching.
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1. Audio encoder comprising a background noise estimator (12) configured to continuously update a parametric background noise estimate during an active phase (24) based on an input audio signal;an encoder (14) for encoding the input audio signal into a data stream during the active phase; and a detector (16) configured to detect an entrance of an inactive phase (28) following the active phase (24) based on the input audio signal, wherein the audio encoder is configured to, upon detection of the entrance of the inactive phase, encode into the data stream the parametric background noise estimate as continuously updated during the active phase which the inactive phase detected follows.
2. Audio encoder according to claim 1, wherein the background noise estimator (12) is configured to, in continuously updating the parametric background noise estimate, distinguish between a noise component and a useful signal component within the input audio signal and to determine the parametric background noise estimate merely from the noise component.
3. Audio encoder according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the encoder (14) is configured to, in encoding the input audio signal, predictively code the input audio signal into linear prediction coefficients and an excitation signal, and transform code the excitation signal, and code the linear prediction coefficients into the data stream (30).
4. Audio encoder according to claim 3, wherein the background noise estimator (l 2) is configured to update the parametric background noise estimate using the excitation signal during the active phase.
5. Audio encoder according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the background noise estimator is configured to, in updating the parametric background noise estimate, identify local minima in the excitation signal and to perform statistical analysis of the excitation signal at the local minima so as to derive the parametric background noise estimate.
6. Audio encoder according to any of the previous claims, wherein the encoder is configured to, in encoding the input signal, use predictive and/or transform coding to encode a lower frequency portion of the input audio signal, and to use parametric coding to encode a spectral envelope of a higher frequency portion of the input audio signal.
7. Audio encoder according to any of the previous claims, wherein the encoder is configured to, in encoding the input signal, use predictive and/or transform coding to encode a lower frequency portion of the input audio signal, and to choose between using parametric coding to encode a spectral envelope of a higher frequency portion of the input audio signal or leaving the higher frequency portion of the input audio signal un-coded.
8. Audio encoder according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the encoder is configured to interrupt the predictive and/or transform coding and the parametric coding in inactive phases or to interrupt the predictive and/or transform coding and perform the parametric coding of the spectral envelope of the higher frequency portion of the input audio signal at a lower time/frequency resolution compared to the use of the parametric coding in the active phase.
9. Audio encoder according to claim 6, 7 or 8, wherein the encoder uses a filterbank in order to spectrally decompose the input audio signal into a set of subbands forming the lower frequency portion, and a set of subbands forming the higher frequency portion
10. Audio encoder according to claim 9, wherein the background noise estimator is configured to update the parametric background noise estimate in the active phase based on the lower and higher frequency portions of the input audio signal
11. Audio encoder according to claim 10, wherein the background noise estimator is configured to, in updating the parametric background noise estimate, identify local minima in the lower and higher frequency portions of the input audio signal and to perform statistical analysis of the lower and higher frequency portions of the input audio signal at the local minima so as to derive the parametric background noise estimate
12. Audio encoder according to any of the previous claims, wherein the noise estimator is configured to continue continuously updating the background noise estimate even during the inactive phase, wherein the audio encoder is configured to intermittently encode updates of the parametric background noise estimate as continuously updated during the inactive phase
13. Audio encoder according to claim 12, wherein the audio encoder is configured to intermittently encode the updates of the parametric background noise estimate in a fixed or variable interval of time
14. Audio decoder for decoding a data stream so as to reconstruct therefrom an audio signal, the data stream comprising at least an active phase (86) followed by an inactive phase (88), the audio decoder comprising a background noise estimator (90) configured to continuously update a parametric background noise estimate from the data stream (104) during the active phase (86);a decoder (92) configured to reconstruct the audio signal from the data stream during the active phase;a parametric random generator (94); and a background noise generator (96) configured to synthesize the audio signal during the inactive phase (88) by controlling the parametric random generator (94) during the inactive phase (88) depending on the parametric background noise estimate
15. Audio decoder according to claim 14, wherein the background noise estimator (90) is configured to, in continuously updating the parametric background noise estimate, distinguish between a noise component and a useful signal component within a version of the audio signal as reconstructed from the data stream (104) in the active phase (86), and to determine the parametric background noise estimate merely from the noise component
16. Audio decoder according to claim 14 or 15, wherein the decoder (92) is configured to, in reconstructing the audio signal from the data stream, shape an excitation signal transform coded into the data stream, according to linear prediction coefficients also coded into the data stream
17. Audio decoder according to claim 16, wherein the background noise estimator (90) is configured to update the parametric background noise estimate using the excitation signal
18. Audio decoder according to claim 16 or 17, wherein the background noise estimator is configured to, in updating the parametric background noise estimate, identify local minima in the excitation signal and to perform a statistical analysis of the excitation signal at the local minima so as to derive the parametric background noise estimate
19. Audio decoder according to any of the previous claims, wherein the decoder is configured to, in reconstructing the audio signal, use predictive and/or transform decoding to reconstruct a lower frequency portion of the audio signal from the data stream, and to synthesize a higher frequency portion of the audio signal.
20. Audio decoder according to claim 19, wherein the decoder is configured to synthesize the higher frequency portion of the audio signal from a spectral envelope of the higher frequency portion of the input audio signal, parametrically encoded into the data stream, or to synthesize the higher frequency portion of the audio signal by blind bandwidth extension based on the lower frequency portion.
21. Audio decoder according to claim 20, wherein the decoder is configured to interrupt the predictive and/or transform decoding in inactive phases and perform the synthesizing of the higher frequency portion of the audio signal by spectrally forming a replica of the lower frequency portion of the audio signal according to the spectral envelope in the active phase, and spectrally forming a replica of the synthesized audio signal according to the spectral envelope in the inactive phase.
22. Audio decoder according to claim 20 or 21, wherein the decoder comprises an inverse filterbank in order to spectrally compose the input audio signal from a set of subbands of the lower frequency portion, and a set of subbands of the higher frequency portion.
23. Audio decoder according to any of claims 14 to 22, wherein the audio decoder is configured to detect an entrance of the inactive phase whenever the data stream is interrupted, and/or whenever the data stream signals the entrance of the data stream.
24. Audio decoder according to any of claims 14 to 23 wherein the background noise generator (96) is configured to synthesize the audio signal during the inactive phase (88) by controlling the parametric random generator (94) during the inactive phase (88) depending on the parametric background noise as continuously updated by the background noise estimator merely in case of the absence of any parametric background noise estimate information in the data stream immediately after a transition from an active phase to an inactive phase.
25. Audio decoder according to any of claims 14 to 24, wherein the background noise estimator (90) is configured to, in continuously updating the parametric background noise estimate, use a spectral decomposition of the audio signal as reconstructed from the decoder (92).
26. Audio decoder according to any of claims 14 to 25, wherein the background noise estimator (90) is configured to, in continuously updating the parametric background noise estimate, use a QMF spectrum of the audio signal as reconstructed from the decoder (92).
27. Audio encoding method comprising continuously updating a parametric background noise estimate during an active phase (24) based on an input audio signal;encoding the input audio signal into a data stream during the active phase;detecting an entrance of an inactive phase (28) following the active phase (24) based on the input audio signal; and upon detection of the entrance of the inactive phase, encoding into the data stream the parametric background noise estimate as continuously updated during the active phase which the inactive phase detected follows.
28. Audio decoding method for decoding a data stream so as to reconstruct therefrom an audio signal, the data stream comprising at least an active phase (86) followed by an inactive phase (88), the method comprising continuously updating a parametric background noise estimate from the data stream (104) during the active phase (86); reconstructing the audio signal from the data stream during the active phase;synthesizing the audio signal during the inactive phase (88) by controlling a parametric random generator (94) during the inactive phase (88) depending on the parametric background noise estimate.
29. Computer program having a program code for performing, when running on a computer, a method according to any of claims 26 to 28.']
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