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|United States Patent||8,046,214|
|Mehrotra , et al.||October 25, 2011|
A multi-channel audio decoder provides a reduced complexity processing to reconstruct multi-channel audio from an encoded bitstream in which the multi-channel audio is represented as a coded subset of the channels along with a complex channel correlation matrix parameterization. The decoder translates the complex channel correlation matrix parameterization to a real transform that satisfies the magnitude of the complex channel correlation matrix. The multi-channel audio is derived from the coded subset of channels via channel extension processing using a real value effect signal and real number scaling.
|Inventors:||Mehrotra; Sanjeev (Kirkland, WA), Chen; Wei-Ge (Sammamish, WA)|
|Filed:||June 22, 2007|
|Current U.S. Class:||704/200.1 ; 341/155; 345/424; 375/141; 375/148; 375/240; 375/240.12; 375/350; 379/406.14; 381/310; 381/63; 455/72; 704/216; 704/219; 704/229; 704/230; 704/246; 704/273; 704/500|
|Current International Class:||G10L 19/00 (20060101)|
|Field of Search:||704/200.1,500,273,216,219,229,230,246 375/148,141,240,240.12,350 381/63,310 341/155 345/424 455/200.1 379/406.14|
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