| 摘要 |
There is provided an audio encoding device capable of effectively encoding stereo audio in audio encoding having monaural-stereo scalable configuration. In this device, a correlation degree comparison unit (304) calculates correlation in a first channel (correlation degree between the past signal and the current signal in the first channel) from the first channel audio signal and calculates correlation in a second channel (correlation degree between the past signal and the current signal in the second channel) from the second channel audio signal. The correlation in the first channel is compared to the correlation in the second channel. A channel having the greater correlation is selected. According to the selection result of a correlation comparison unit (304), a selection unit (305) selects the first channel prediction signal outputted from a first channel prediction unit (307) or the first channel prediction signal outputted from a first channel signal generation unit (311) and outputs the selected signal to a subtractor (303) and a first channel prediction residual signal encoding unit (308). |
