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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shipeng Li, Princeton, NJ (US);
Richard Gerald Branco, Westmont, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/66 ; H04N 7/24 ; G06F 7/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/66 ; H04N 7/24 ; G06F 7/38 ;
Abstract
A rounding method to increase the precision of an audio decoder during arithmetic and/or shifting operations is disclosed. The most significant bit of the discarded bits is evaluated for a rounding up operation.