US Patent 8463602 Encoding device, decoding device, and method thereof

There is disclosed an encoding device capable of improving similarity between the high frequency band spectrum of the original signal and a new spectrum to be generated while realizing a low bit rate when encoding a wide-band signal spectrum. The encoding device has sub-band amplitude calculation units (122, 128) for calculating the amplitude of the respective sub-bands for the high frequency band spectrum obtained from the wide-band signal. A search unit (124) and a gain codebook (125) select some sub-bands from a plurality of sub-bands and only the gain of the selected sub-bands is subjected to encoding. An interpolation unit (126) expresses the gain of the sub-band not selected, by mutually interpolating the selected gains.