Patent ID: 8351611

Claim:
A method of processing a signal, comprising: receiving, by an audio decoding apparatus, a downmix signal and spatial information, wherein the downmix signal corresponding to a mono signal is generated by downmixing a multi-channel audio signal, the spatial information is determined when the multi-channel audio signal is downmixed into the downmix signal, the spatial information includes at least one of channel level difference (CLD) and an inter-channel correlation (ICC); generating, by the audio decoding apparatus, a decorrelated downmix signal by applying a decorrelator in the audio decoding apparatus to the downmix signal; generating, by the audio decoding apparatus, rendering information by applying a spatial information converting unit in the audio decoding apparatus using HRTF (Head Related Transfer Function) and the spatial information, wherein the rendering information is one set of information that includes a combination of the HRTF and the spatial information; and generating, by the audio decoding apparatus, a surround signal having a surround effect by applying the rendering information to the downmix signal and the decorrelated downmix signal, wherein: the surround signal having the surround effect consists of two output channels, and provides multi-channel impression corresponding to the multi-channel audio signal over two output channels, the two output channels include a left output channel and a right output channel, and the rendering information include information for generating the left output channel by being applied to the downmix signal, information for generating the right output channel by being applied to the downmix signal, information for generating the left output channel by being applied to the decorrelated downmix signal, information for generating the right output channel by being applied to the decorrelated downmix signal.