With respect to audio signal coding and decoding apparatuses, there is provided
a coding apparatus that enables a decoding apparatus to reproduce an audio signal
even through it does not use all of data from the coding apparatus, and a decoding
apparatus corresponding to the coding apparatus. A quantization unit constituting
a coding apparatus includes a first sub-quantization unit comprising sub-quantization
units for low-band, intermediate-band, and high-band; a second sub-quantization
unit for quantizing quantization errors from the first sub-quantization unit; and
a third sub-quantization unit for quantizing quantization errors which have been
processed by the first sub-quantization unit and the second sub-quantization unit.