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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 1991

Filed:

Oct. 17, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:

Craig F Szczutkowski, Forest, VA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ; H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370108 ; 370109 ; 375122 ; 381 33 ;
Abstract

Time delay compensation is inserted into a digital signal processing channel having compressed bandwidth portions at a point where the bandwidth is compressed. Since a smaller number of bits per unit of information is present at such a point, this reduces the number of bits which must be buffered to achieve a given amount of time delay compensation. For example, in a subband coder/decoder using a non-symmetrical QMF filter tree, the necessary time delay compensation in the various subband channels is effected subsequent to a digital bandwidth compression encoding step on the transmitter side. On the receiver side, similar time compensation may be provided in the subband channels prior to a digital bandwidth expansion decoding step. By implementing the necessary digital time delay compensation at a point in the system where the signals are bandwidth compressed to a maximum degree (i.e. using a minimum number of bits per second to transmit given information), digital memory requirements for implementing the digital time delay compensation are minimized.


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