William Park & Associates Ltd.
Audio encoding apparatus and method, audio decoding apparatus and method, and audio reproducing apparatus
An audio encoding apparatus and method that encodes hybrid contents including an object sound, a background sound, and metadata, and an audio decoding apparatus and method that decodes the encoded hybrid contents are provided. The audio encoding apparatus may include a mixing unit to generate an intermediate channel signal by mixing a background sound and an object sound, a matrix information encoding unit to encode matrix information used for the mixing, an audio encoding unit to encode the intermediate channel signal, and a metadata encoding unit to encode metadata including control information of the object sound.
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
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Tae Jin Jeong Il Seung Kwon Yong Ju Dae Young Jong Mo Kyeong Ok Jin Woong
Lee Seo Beack Lee Jang Sung Kang Kim