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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2001
Applicant:
Chanchal Chatterjee, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Chanchal Chatterjee, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Instrument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method in a signal processor for quantizing a digital signal is provided. A fixed-point approximation of a value X÷Q is generated, wherein X is a fixed-point value based on one or more samples in the digital signal, and wherein Q is a fixed-point quantization parameter. A correction is generated, and the approximation is modified with the correction.