ENCODING AND DECODING OF SLOT POSITIONS WITH EVENTS IN AUDIO SIGNAL FRAME Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC G10L19/00 

FIELD: physics, acoustics.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to audio signal processing and audio encoding. Disclosed is an apparatus for decoding, an apparatus for encoding, a method for decoding and a method for encoding positions of slots comprising events in an audio signal frame and respective programs and encoded signals, wherein the apparatus for decoding comprises: an analysing unit for analysing a frame slots number indicating the total of slots of the audio signal frame, an event slots number indicating the number of slots comprising the events of the audio signal frame, and an event state number, and a generating unit for generating an indication of a plurality of positions of slots comprising the events in the audio signal frame using the frame slots number, the event slots number and the event state number.

EFFECT: high accuracy of encoding and decoding.

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