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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 1990
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1987
Claude Galand, Cagnes/Mer, FR;
Michele Rosso, Nice, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A process for multirate subband encoding voice signals. At least a portion of the original signal bandwidth is split into p sub-bands the contents of which are to be coded using dynamic allocation of quantizing levels throughout the sub-bands. Let's assume the signal is to be coded for a set of coding rates R(1) <R(2)<. . .<R(k) . . . <R(K). First the number of quantizing levels 1(i, R(1)) for the lowest rate is determined. Then the levels for 1(i, R(k)), k=2, . . . , p are determined using: ##EQU1## Then the sub-band samples S(i,j) are quantized according to 1(i, R(K). Finally, the quantized sub-band samples are embedded into a multirate frame.