EFFICIENT CODING OF SIDE INFORMATION IN A LOSSLESS ENCODER

摘要

For "Super Audio CD" (SACD) the DSD signals are losslessly coded, using framing, prediction and entropy coding. Besides the efficiently encoded signals, a large number of parameters, i.e. the side-information, has to be stored on the SACD too. The side information comprises the prediction filter coefficients and the probability table which have been used for encoding, and which should be transmitted to the decoder. The smaller the storage capacity that is required for the side-information, the better the overall coding gain is. Therefore coding techniques are applied to the side-information too so as to compress the amount of data of the side information. The frames can be segmented, each segment having its own set of filter coefficients and probability table.