Patent ID: 11948584
Assignee: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
Field: nan (nan)
Classification: CPC nan | IPC G  H

Claim 1:
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the base layer includes at least one portion of additional basic side information corresponding to the respective layer and including information that specifies decoding of one or more components among the components assigned to the respective layer in dependence on other components assigned to the respective layer and any layers lower than the respective layer, the method comprising, for each portion of additional basic side information:
decoding the portion of additional basic side information by referring to the components assigned to its respective layer and any layers lower than the respective layer; and
correcting the portion of additional basic side information by referring to the components assigned to the highest usable hierarchical enhancement layer and any layers between the highest usable hierarchical enhancement layer and the respective layer,
wherein the basic reconstructed sound representation is obtained from the components assigned to the highest usable hierarchical enhancement layer and any layers lower than the highest usable hierarchical enhancement layer, using the basic side information and corrected portions of additional basic side information obtained from portions of additional basic side information corresponding to layers up to the highest usable hierarchical enhancement layer.