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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1998
Victor D. Kolesnik, St. Petersburg, RU;
Irina E. Bocharova, St. Petersburg, RU;
Boris D. Kudryashov, St. Petersburg, RU;
Eugene Ovsyannikov, St. Petersburg, RU;
Andrei N. Trofimov, St. Petersburg, RU;
Boris Troyanovsky, St. Petersburg, RU;
Other;
Abstract
A method and apparatus to achieve relatively high quality audio data compression/decompression, while achieving relatively low bit rates (e.g., high compression ratios). According to one aspect of the invention, a residual signal is subband decomposed and adaptively quantized and encoded to capture frequency information that may provide higher quality compression and decompression relative to transform encoding techniques. According to a second aspect of the invention, an input audio signal is compared to an encoded signal based on the input audio signal to detect and reduce, as necessary, distortion in the encoded signal or portions thereof.