To generate coded data by inserting 2nd information different from an audio signal into the audio signal without deterioration of sound quality of the audio signal and to decode the coded data to extract the audio signal and the 2nd information.
An psychoacoustic analyzer 2 analyzes an audible frequency band in the audio signal being a 1st signal to calculate an audible limit as a psychoracoustic parameter. Second information different from the audio signal is inserted to a frequency band for a sound inaudible to humans in the audio signal is inserted to the audio signal based on the psychoacoustic parameter. Furthermore, the audio signal to which the 2nd information is inserted is decoded based on the psychoacoustic parameter to extract the audio signal and the 2nd information.
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