Patent ID: 7865256
Filing Date: 2011-01-04
Classification: G10H,G10L,G11B

Abstract:
1. An audio playback apparatus comprising: a memory for storing compressive coded data, which are produced by performing compressive coding on a string of samples forming an audio waveform of one phrase, wherein the compressive coded data includes a full section defined between a phrase start point and a phrase end point and a loop section defined between a loop start point and a loop end point; a first decoder; a second decoder; and a controller for controlling the first decoder in such a way that upon reception of a normal playback instruction, the first decoder sequentially decodes the full section of the compressive coded data, and wherein the controller controls the first decoder and the second decoder in such a way that upon reception of a loop playback instruction, the first decoder sequentially decodes the full section of the compressive coded data so as to reproduce and output the samples from the phrase start point, the first decoder stops outputting the samples when the first decoder is instructed to mute, the second decoder repeatedly decodes the loop section of the compressive coded data so as to repeatedly reproduce and output the samples lying between the loop start point and the loop end point, and the first decoder restarts decoding on the full section of the compressive coded data so as to sequentially reproduce and output the samples toward the phrase end point.