A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed, which are robust to error when mobile service data are transmitted. To this end, additional encoding is performed for the mobile service data, whereby it is possible to strongly cope with fast channel change while giving robustness to the mobile service data.

Digital broadcasting system and data processing method

A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The method includes receiving a data processing method includes receiving a broadcast signal in which main service data and mobile service data are multiplexed, acquiring transmission-parameter-channel signaling information including transmission parameter information of the mobile service data, and fast-information-channel signaling information, acquiring binding information describing a relationship between at least one ensemble transferring the mobile service data and a first virtual channel contained in the at least one ensemble by decoding the fast-information-channel, and acquiring status information of the first virtual channel, displaying content data contained in the mobile service data according to the binding information and the status information of the first virtual channel.

Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system

A service multiplexer of a digital broadcasting system includes a null data generator, a mobile service multiplexer, a main service multiplexer, and a multiplexer. The null data generator may generate null data. The mobile service multiplexer may multiplex and output compression encoded mobile service data, additional data for a mobile service, and null data at a pre-determined first data rate. The main service multiplexer may multiplex and output compression encoded main service data and additional data for a main service at a pre-determined second data rate. The multiplexer may multiplex the output data of the main service multiplexer and the output data of the mobile service multiplexer at a pre-determined third data rate and transmitting the multiplexed data to at least one transmitter located at a remote position.

Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data

A media processing system and device with improved power usage characteristics, improved audio functionality and improved media security is provided. Embodiments of the media processing system include an audio processing subsystem that operates independently of the host processor for long periods of time, allowing the host processor to enter a low power state while the audio data is being processed. Other aspects of the media processing system provide for enhanced audio effects such as mixing stored audio samples into real-time telephone audio. Still other aspects of the media processing system provide for improved media security due to the isolation of decrypted audio data from the host processor.

Media processing method and device

The present invention teaches a new audio coding system that can code both general audio and speech signals well at low bit rates. A proposed audio coding system comprises linear prediction unit for filtering an input signal based on an adaptive filter; a transformation unit for transforming a frame of the filtered input signal into a transform domain; and a quantization unit for quantizing the transform domain signal. The quantization unit decides, based on input signal characteristics, to encode the transform domain signal with a model-based quantizer or a non-model-based quantizer. Preferably, the decision is based on the frame size applied by the transformation unit.

Audio encoder and decoder

The present invention relates to digital audio coding systems that employ high freuqency reconstruction (HFR) methods. It teaches how to improve the overall perforamcne of such systems, by means of an adaptation over time of the crossover frequency between the lowband coded by a core codec, and the highband coded by an HFR system. Different methods of establishing the instantaneous optimum choice of crossover frequency are introduced.

Enhancing the performance of coding systems that use high frequency reconstruction methods

Many portable playback devices cannot decode and playback encoded audio content having wide bandwidth and wide dynamic range with consistent loudness and intelligibility unless the encoded audio content has been prepared specially for these devices. This problem can be overcome by including with the encoded content some metadata that specifies a suitable dynamic range compression profile by either absolute values or differential values relative to another known compression profile. A playback device may also adaptively apply gain and limiting to the playback audio. Implementations in encoders, in transcoders and in decoders are disclosed.

System and method for non-destructively normalizing loudness of audio signals within portable devices

When encoding an audio signal, the audio signal is first encoded with the first encoder (12) to obtain a first encoder output signal. This first encoder output signal is written into a bit stream. It is further decoded by a decoder (18) to provide a decoded audio signal. The decoded audio signal is compared (22) with the original audio signal to obtain a residual signal. The residual signal is then encoded via a second encoder (26) to provide a second encoder output signal which is also written into a bit stream (30). The first encoder has a first time or frequency resolution. The second encoder has a second time or frequency resolution. The first resolution differs from the second resolution, so that in a respective decoder, an au-dio signal with both a high time resolution as well as a high frequency resolution can be retrieved.

Apparatus and method for encoding an audio signal and apparatus and method for decoding an encoded audio signal

An enhanced audio encoding device, which is consisted of a signal type analyzing module, a psychoacoustical analyzing module, a time-frequency mapping module, a quantization and entropy encoding module, a frequency-domain linear prediction and vector quantization module, and a bit stream multiplexing module, in which the singal type analyzing module is configured to anaylze the signal type of the input audio signal and output to the psychoacoustical analyzing module, the time-frequency mapping module and the bit stream multiplexing module, the frequency-domain linear prediction and vector quantization module is configured to perform a linear prediction of the frequency-domain coefficients and a multi-level vector quantization, and output the residual sequences to the quantization and entropy encoding module while outputting a lateral information to the bit stream multiplexing module. The device is adapted to perform a compressive encoding of the audio signal with high fidelity, which is sampled at multi sampling rates and has multi audio channel configurations, the device can support the audio signal whose sampling rate is between 8kHz and 192kHz and all possible audio channel configurations, and the range of the objective code rate of the audio encode/decode is very wide.

Michael Schug

Papers

Audio encoder and decoder

Enhancing the performance of coding systems that use high frequency reconstruction methods

System and method for non-destructively normalizing loudness of audio signals within portable devices

Apparatus and method for encoding an audio signal and apparatus and method for decoding an encoded audio signal

Enhanced audio encoding/decoding device and method