Patent 7769584 was granted and assigned to Panasonic on August, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method enabling acquisition of high-quality decoded signal in scalable encoding of an original signal in first and second layers even if the second or upper layer section performs low bit-rate encoding. In the encoder, a spectrum residue shape codebook (305) stores candidates of spectrum residue shape vectors, a spectrum residue gain codebook (307) stores candidates of spectrum residue gains, and a spectrum residue shape vector and a spectrum residue gain are sequentially outputted from the candidates according to the instruction from a search section (306). A multiplier (308) multiplies a candidate of the spectrum residue shape vector by a candidate of the spectrum residue gain and outputs the result to a filtering section (303). The filtering section (303) performs filtering by using a pitch filter internal state set by a filter state setting section (302), a lag T outputted by a lag setting section (304), and a spectrum residue shape vector which has undergone gain adjustment.