An audio data transmitting method applied to an audio data transmitting device. The audio data transmitting method comprises: (a) receiving first audio data from at least one audio data source, wherein the first audio data follows a first audio format; and (b) outputting the first audio data from the audio data transmitting device without encoding or decoding the first audio data.

An encoder and a method therein for Pyramid Vector Quantizer, PVQ, shape search, the PVQ taking a target vector x as input and deriving a vector y by iteratively adding unit pulses in an inner dimension search loop. The method comprises, before entering a next inner dimension search loop for unit pulse addition, determining, based on the maximum pulse amplitude, maxamp.sub.y, of a current vector y, whether more than a current bit word length is needed to represent enloop.sub.y, in a lossless manner in the upcoming inner dimension loop. The variable enloop.sub.y is related to an accumulated energy of the vector y. The performing of this method enables the encoder to keep the complexity of the search at a reasonable level.

Disclosed herein is an audio transmitter receiver device. The device includes an audio interface providing an audio signal, the audio signal including at least one of an audio input signal and an audio output signal; a digital communications interface for at least communicating audio information; and an audio codec for transcoding the audio information such that the audio information includes at least a high quality distortion free lossless representation of the audio signal and the audio signal includes an audio representation of the audio information.

The present invention proposes a new method and a new apparatus for enhancement of audio source coding systems utilising high frequency reconstruction (HFR). It utilises a detection mechanism on the encoder side to assess what parts of the spectrum will not be correctly reproduced by the HFR method in the decoder. Information on this is efficiently coded and sent to the decoder, where it is combined with the output of the HFR input.

An apparatus for level estimation of an encoded audio signal is provided. The apparatus has a codebook determinator for determining a codebook from a plurality of codebooks as an identified codebook. The audio signal has been encoded by employing the identified codebook. Moreover, the apparatus has an estimation unit configured for deriving a level value associated with the identified codebook as a derived level value and for estimating a level estimate of the audio signal using the derived level value.

In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a method and an apparatus thereof for controlling a concealment method for a lost audio frame of a received audio signal. A method for a decoder of concealing a lost audio frame comprises detecting in a property of the previously received and reconstructed audio signal, or in a statistical property of observed frame losses, a condition for which the substitution of a lost frame provides relatively reduced quality. In case such a condition is detected, the concealment method is modified by selectively adjusting a phase or a spectrum magnitude of a substitution frame spectrum.

A method (500) for resampling an audio signal (110) is described. The method (500) comprising providing (501) a set of input subband signals (210) which is representative of a time domain audio signal. Furthermore, the method (500) comprises applying (502) a first ripple pre-emphasis gain (323) to a first input subband signal (210) of the set of input subband signals (210) to determine a corresponding first output subband signal (213) of a set of output subband signals (213). In addition, the method (500) comprises determining (503) a time domain input audio signal (110) from the set of output subband signals (213). The method (500) further comprises performing (504) time domain resampling of the input audio signal (110) to provide an output audio signal (113) using an anti-aliasing filter (102), wherein the first ripple pre-emphasis gain (323) is dependent on a frequency response (311) of the anti-aliasing filter (102), such that an amplitude ripple of the frequency response (311) of the anti-aliasing filter (102) is at least partially compensated by the first ripple pre-emphasis gain (323).

Provided is a technique according to which it is possible to obtain a decoded sound signal of high sound quality without significantly increasing the delay time compared to a configuration in which only a decoded sound signal of the minimum necessary sound quality is obtained. In a terminal apparatus connected to a first communication line and a second communication line with a lower priority level therethan, sound signals of multiple channels are obtained and output based on a monaural code included in a first code string input from the first communication line and an extended code included in a second code string with the closest frame number to that of the monaural code among extended codes included in the second code string input from the second communication line.

An ultrasonic data transmission method, apparatus and system, a terminal device and a medium are provided. The method is applied to a transmitting terminal which includes at least two ultrasonic signal transmitting arrays. The method includes: a single-frequency ultrasonic coding signal of to-be-transmitted information corresponding to each ultrasonic signal transmitting array is respectively determined, ultrasonic codes of to-be-transmitted information corresponding to different ultrasonic signal transmitting arrays being different; and corresponding at least two single-frequency ultrasonic code signals are transmitted through the at least two ultrasonic signal transmitting arrays to a receiving terminal in a focusing mode, frequency bands of transmitting frequencies of different ultrasonic signal transmitting arrays being different.

The present disclosure provides methods, devices and computer program products for encoding and decoding of a vector of parameters in an audio coding system. The disclosure further relates to a method and apparatus for reconstructing an audio object in an audio decoding system. According to the disclosure, a modulo differential approach for coding and encoding a vector of a non-periodic quantity may improve the coding efficiency and provide encoders and decoders with less memory requirements. Moreover, an efficient method for encoding and decoding a sparse matrix is provided.