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Reduced complexity fast hadamard transform

US7003536B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 15, 2002
Grant dateFeb 21, 2006
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Expiry dateJul 8, 2023

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F17/145
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for performing a radix-4 fast Hadamard transform (FHT) with reduced complexity and for directly determining the maximum output of a fast Hadamard transform using either a radix-4 transform or radix-2 transform without actually generating the outputs. The radix-4 fast Hadamard transform is implemented using only seven operations. To find the maximum value of the output of a fast Hadamard transform and its corresponding index, the N−1 stages of a conventional N stage fast Hadamard transform are computed while a find-maximum stage is inserted in place of the Nth stage. The invention also provides a methodology for constructing fast Hadamard transforms of the form H2using radix-4 FHTs and permuting the results to achieve the correct outputs.

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