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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 15, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eric Goubault, Paris, FR;
Emmanuel Lancon, Nice, FR;
Jean Menez, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, FR;
Catherine Raimondo, Villeneuve Loubet, FR;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348414 ; 348417 ; 348418 ; 348422 ;
Abstract
A vector quantization encoder comprises a codebook built with the so-called Linde-Buzo-Gray (LBG) algorithm, an intermediary codebook built from the initial codebook (LBG) and a Hash-table containing subsets of the initial codebook (LBG). Vector quantization is then performed in two steps. First, a multistep prequantization of an input vector gives an index in the Hash-table which points to a subset of vectors of the initial codebook (LBG). Then a full search is performed within the pointed subset of vectors of the initial codebook (LBG).