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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 05, 1997
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The code vector search for vector-quantizing a variable-dimension input vector is to be improved in precision. Via a terminal are entered a variable number of data, that is a variable-dimension vector v, representing, for example, the amplitudes of spectral components of the harmonics of speech. The variable-dimension vector v is converted by a variable/fixed dimension conversion circuit into the vector x of a fixed dimension, such as 44-dimension vector, which is sent to a selection circuit. From plural fixed-dimension vectors, such a code vector as minimizes a weighted error is selected from a codebook. The code vector of fixed dimension obtained by the codebook is converted by a fixed/variable dimension converting circuit into the same variable dimension as that of the original variable-dimension vector v. The converted variable dimension code vector is sent to a variable-dimension selection circuit for selecting from the codebook such code vector as minimizes the weighted error from the input vector v.