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Floating-point type digital signal reversible encoding method, decoding method, apparatuses therefor, and programs therefor

US7230551B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 21, 2004
Grant dateJun 12, 2007
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Expiry dateJun 21, 2024

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M7/4087
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Signal samples X in a floating-point format, each of which is composed of 1 bit of sign S, 8 bits of exponent E and 23 bits of mantissa M, are converted through truncation by an integer formatting part 12 into signal samples Y in a 24-bit integer format, the integer-value signal samples Y are coded by a compressing part 13 into a code sequence Ca, and the code sequence Ca is output. According to the number of digits n following the most significant “1” in the integer-value signal sample Y, a difference producing part 14 extracts the least significant (23−n) bits from the mantissa M of the input signal sample X to form a difference signal Z, and a compressing part 17 performs entropy coding of the difference signal Z to produce a code sequence Cb and outputs the code sequence Cb. Alternatively, the difference signal Z may be output as it is, rather than being compressed.

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