Patent ID: 6460016
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: H04B,H04H

Abstract:
An audio decoding device for decoding coded audio information with multiple channels, comprising:a coded information memory section for storing data making up frames of the coded audio information; an information transmission section for reading the data making up the frames of the coded audio information from arbitrary positions in the coded information memory section; and an audio decoding section for decoding the coded audio information read by the information transmission section and outputting the resultant audio information in accordance with a time axis, wherein the information transmission section includes a buffer memory for retaining an address of an actual pointer for reading the data making up the frames of the coded audio information in the coded information memory section so as not to be reread, an address of a temporary pointer for reading the data making up the frames of the coded audio information in the coded information memory section so as to be reread, actual pointer data read by the actual pointer, and temporary pointer data read by the temporary pointer.