Patent ID: 8326606
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A speech encoding apparatus for block-wise encoding a time domain speech signal, the speech encoding apparatus comprising: an analyzer, including a processor, that performs MDCT analysis on one block of the time-domain speech signal by both a long analysis length frame and a short analysis length frame with each block, and obtains transform coefficients for the long analysis length frame and transform coefficients for the short analysis length frame in a frequency domain every block; an encoder that encodes each of the transform coefficients for the long analysis length frame and the transform coefficients for the short analysis length frame; and an outputter that multiplexes encoded parameters obtained by the encoder and transmits the multiplexed parameters to the speech decoding apparatus; wherein the encoder encodes the transform coefficients for the short analysis length frame using more bits per transform coefficient than used by the encoder for encoding the transform coefficients for the long analysis length frame, the long analysis length frame accounts for one of a start side period and an end side period on the each block, the short analysis length frame is shorter than the long analysis length and accounts for the other of the start side period and the end side period on the each block, an overlapping period of the long analysis length frame and the short analysis length frame is a half length of the short analysis length frame, without use of an analysis frame for transition.