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Digital signal huffman coding with division of frequency sub-bands

US6215422A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 6, 1998
Grant dateApr 10, 2001
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Expiry dateAug 6, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/146
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention proposes a digital signal coding method including a step of analysing (E1) the digital signal (IM) into a plurality of frequency sub-band signals distributed according to at least two different frequency bands, at least one first sub-band signal having a lower frequency and at least one second sub-band signal having a higher frequency, PA1 characterised in that it includes, for each second sub-band signal, the steps of: PA2 dividing (E4) the second sub-band signals into blocks (B.sub.i,n), PA2 selecting (E9) blocks to be coded by setting to a predetermined value, according to a selection criterion, PA2 coding the blocks selected by setting to the predetermined value.

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