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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1993
Robert A Lindsay, Bountiful, UT (US);
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Abstract
A quantizer, which converts an input group of data samples into one of N quantized groups of data samples, does so by performing several dot products and compares. Each dot product is between the input group of data samples and a reference group of data samples u.sub.x, and each compare is with the dot product result and a constant k.sub.y. All of the reference groups of data samples and all of the constants are stored in a memory. This memory holds only N-1 constants and less then N/2 reference groups of data samples. A memory saving of several thousand percent is achieved by limiting the memory to hold no more then 2r reference groups of data samples where r is the number of samples in the input group, or no more then 2 log.sub.2 N reference groups of data samples.