DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE CODING AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE DECODING

摘要

The invention relates to a device for the scalable coding of a spectrum of a signal comprising audio and/or video information. The spectrum comprises binary spectral values which are grouped into bands. Said device comprises a device (102) for producing a first partial scaling layer and a second partial scaling layer and a device (106) for forming the coded signals in order to incorporate the first partial scaling layer and the second partial scaling layer into the coded signal, such that the first and the second partial scaling layer can be decoded separately from each other. A partial scaling layer exclusively comprises, in comparison with a full scaling layer, bits of a defined order of part of the binary spectral value in the band such that additional decoding of a partial scaling layer can provide a finely controllable and finely scalable precision gain.