Title (en)

Apparatus and method for reproducing an audio signal, apparatus and method for generating a coded audio signal, computer program and coded
audio signal

Title (de)
Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Wiedergabe eines Audiosignals, Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Erzeugung eines codierten Audiosignals,
Computerprogramm und codiertes Audiosignal

Title (fr)
Appareil et procédé permettant de reproduire un signal audio, appareil et procédé permettant de générer un signal audio codé, programme
informatique et signal audio codé

Publication
EP 2704142 A1 20140305 (EN)

Application
EP 12187265 A 20121004

Priority
US 201261693575 P 20120827

Abstract (en)
An apparatus for reproducing an audio signal based on first data representing a coded version of a first portion of the audio signal in a first frequency
band and second data representing side information on a second portion of the audio signal in a second frequency band, the second frequency
band comprising frequencies higher than the first frequency band, comprises a first reproducer configured to reproduce the first portion of the audio
signal based on the first data. A provider is configured to provide a patch signal in the second frequency band, wherein the patch signal is at least
partially uncorrelated with respect to the first portion of the audio signal or is at least partially a decorrelated version of the first portion of the audio
signal, which has been shifted to the second frequency band. A second reproducer is configured to reproduce the second portion of the audio signal
in the second frequency band based on the second data and the patch signal. A combiner is configured to combine the reproduced first portion
of the audio signal and the patch signal before the second portion of the audio signal is reproduced by the second reproducer or to combine the
reproduced first portion of the audio signal and the reproduced second portion of the audio signal.

IPC 8 full level

G10L 21/038 (2013.01)

CPC (source: EP RU US)

G10L 19/0017 (2013.01 - RU US); G10L 19/008 (2013.01 - RU); G10L 19/26 (2013.01 - RU); G10L 19/265 (2013.01 - RU US);
G10L 21/038 (2013.01 - EP RU US)

Citation (applicant)
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Citation (search report)

• [A] EP 2239732 A1 20101013 - FRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG [DE]
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XP031459187, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2353-8
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XP031697766, ISBN: 978-1-4244-4295-9

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