Audio data decompression and interpolation apparatus and method
US5890126A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 10, 1997 |
| Grant date | Mar 30, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 10, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10H7/04
- WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
Apparatus for simultaneously decompressing and interpolating compressed audio data. The compressed audio data is stored in differential log format, meaning that the difference between each two consecutive data points is taken and the log of the difference calculated to form each compressed data point. To efficiently decompress and interpolate the compressed data, advantage is taken of the fact that addition of logs is equivalent to multiplication of linear values. Thus the log of an interpolation factor is added to each compressed data point prior to taking the inverse log of the sum. An integrator block completes the interpolation and decompression of the data.
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