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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1994
Truong-Thao Nguyen, New York, NY (US);
Martin F Vetterli, New York, NY (US);
The Trustees of Columbia University, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Quantization noise in oversampled digital data can be reduced by processing including alternate steps of lowpass filtering and so-called code projection, in cases where the set of discrete-time signals corresponding to quantized-signal data is a convex set. Corresponding specific methods are disclosed for simple analog-to-digital conversion, 'dithered' analog-to-digital conversion, and first- and second-order single-path .SIGMA..DELTA.-conversion. For example, in the case of simple analog-to-digital conversion, code projection involves replacing sample values by quantization-threshold values in those cases where, after filtering, a sample value lies in a different quantization interval as compared with the corresponding value of quantized-signal data.