ACOUSTIC SIGNAL ENCODING METHOD AND ENCODING DEVICE, ACOUSTIC SIGNAL DECODING METHOD AND DECODING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE

摘要

A sound signal encoder for high efficiency encoding of sound signals from a plurality of channels is provided which includes a to-be-correlated object setter (52), to-be-correlated object selector (56) and a variable-length encoder (58). The to-be-correlated object setter (52) sets, on the basis of left-channel frequency information held in a left-channel frequency information holder (50) and right-channel frequency information held in a right-channel frequency information holder (51), index [i] indicating which ones of sine waves on the left channel are to be correlated with, namely, are to be subtracted from, sine waves on the right channel. The to-be-correlated object selector (56) selects a default value read from a storage unit (55) or index [i]-th amplitude information read from a left-channel amplitude information holder (53) as an object to be subtracted from the i-th amplitude information on the right channel according to the index [i]. The variable-length encoder (58) makes variable-length encoding of a difference resulted from subtraction of the left-channel amplitude information or default value as the to-be-correlated object from the amplitude information on the right channel.