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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1995
Masahiro Oshikiri, Urayasu, JP;
Kimio Miseki, Kawasaki, JP;
Masami Akamine, Yokosuka, JP;
Tadashi Amada, Kawasaki, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
The coding apparatus comprises an adaptive codebook storing excitation signals as vectors, a synthesis filter for forming a synthesis signal, referring to the vectors stored in the adaptive codebook, a similarity computation circuit for computing a similarity between the synthesis signal obtained by the synthesis filter and a target signal, and a coding scheme determining circuit for deciding one coding scheme from a plurality of coding schemes respectively having coding bit rates different from each other, on the basis of the similarity obtained by the similarity computation circuit.