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System decoder circuit and method of operation

US5631848A · kind A · utility

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20Claims
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Filing dateJun 7, 1995
Grant dateMay 20, 1997
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Expiry dateJun 7, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N21/4305
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A data processing system (10) is disclosed which comprises a microprocessor host (12) coupled to a decoding system (14). A host interface block (18) receives a bit stream and passes bit stream on to a system decoder block (20). The system decoder block (20) extracts the appropriate data from the bit stream and loads an input buffer (24) or an optional external buffer (26). An audio decoder block (28) retrieves the data from the input buffer (24) and generates scale factor indices, bit per code word values and subband samples which are stored in an arithmetic unit buffer (30). A hardware filter arithmetic unit block (32) retrieves the information from the arithmetic unit buffer (30) and dequantizes, transforms and filters the data to generate PCM output data which is loaded into a PCM buffer (34). The data within the PCM buffer (34) is output by a PCM output block (36) to a digital-to-analog converter (16).

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