摘要 |
In a communications system, parametric coding in accordance with the invention is implemented to generate a representation of a stereo audio signal, which is composed of a left channel signal (L) and a right channel signal (R). To efficiently utilize transmission bandwidth, such a representation contains (1) information concerning only one of the L and R signals, and (2) parametric information based on which, together with (1), the other signal can be recovered. Because of the design of the parametric coding, the representation advantageously captures localization cues of the stereo audio signal, including intensity and phase characteristics of L and R. As a result, the stereo audio signal recovered from the transmitted representation affords a high stereo quality.
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