SCALABLE DECODING APPARATUS

摘要

A scalable decoding apparatus capable of providing decoded audio signals of high quality having less degradation of a high frequency spectrum even when decoding audio signals by generating the high frequency spectrum by use of a low frequency spectrum. In the apparatus, an amplitude adjusting part (1211) uses different adjustment coefficients in accordance with the characteristic of first layer spectrum information to adjust the amplitude of a first layer decoded signal spectrum, and then outputs the amplitude-adjusted first layer decoded signal spectrum to a pseudo-spectrum generating part (1012). Using amplitude-adjusted first layer decoded signal spectrum received from the amplitude adjusting part (1211), the pseudo-spectrum generating part (1012) generates and outputs a pseudo-spectrum of high frequencies to a scaling part (1013) . The scaling part (1013) scales the spectrum received from the pseudo-spectrum generating part (1012) and then outputs it to an adder (B).