A METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A SIGNAL

摘要

A method of decoding an audio signal comprises obtaining a window feature of previous window frame indicating a window which is used to previous window frame; extracting first window feature information indicating a length of right window slope of current window frame; when the first window feature information indicates a length of long window slope, determining a window feature of the current window frame by using the first window feature information and the window feature of the previous window frame; when the first window feature information does not indicate a length of long window slope, extracting second window feature information indicating a unit of frequency transform of the current window frame; and determining a window feature of the current window frame by using the first window feature information, the second window feature information and the window feature of the previous window frame; and decoding an audio signal based on the window feature of the current window frame. Accordingly, by determining a window feature of a current window frame using a window feature of a previous window frame as well as using a feature of a right window of the current window frame applied to a current frame, first window feature information indicating an MDCT unit and second window feature information, it is able to reduce the number of bits allocated to indicate the window feature.