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Patent No.:

US 7239253 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2007

Filed:

Sep. 16, 2004
Applicant:

Karl Denninghoff, Bothell, WA (US);

Inventor:

Karl Denninghoff, Bothell, WA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A sound codec including a compression portion and a decompression portion. The compression portion separates the incoming sound packet bandwidth into frequency sub-bands using a bank of infinite impulse response (IIR) filters. In accordance with the invention, the lower frequency signals are divided into more sub-bands than the higher frequency signals. Once the signals are divided into sub-bands, each sub-band signal is quantized. The resulting signals of all of the quantized sub-bands are then sent out over a communications link along with the filter state at the end of each sound packet. The decompression portion recombines the individual sub-band signals together (using a bank of infinite impulse response (IIR) filters) to form the audio data using the filter states to configure the reconstruction.


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