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Block normalization processor

Patent 5727123 Issued on March 10, 1998. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject December 20, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

Maximum negative number detector
Patent #: 4789956
Issued on: 12/06/1988
Inventor: Hildebrandt

Variable rate vocoder
Patent #: 5414796
Issued on: 05/09/1995
Inventor: Jacobs, et al.

Encoding system comprising a subband coder for subband coding of a wideband digital signal constituted by first and second signal components Patent #: 5491773
Issued on: 02/13/1996
Inventor: Veldhuis, et al.

Inventors

Application

No. 575303 filed on 12/20/1995

US Classes:

704/224Normalizing

Examiners

Primary: MacDonald, Allen R.
Assistant: Dorvil, Richemond

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 0280827 EP 09/12/1988
  • 0291377 EP 11/12/1988
  • 0308817 EP 03/12/1989

International Class

G10L 003/00

Abstract

A method and apparatus for implementing a vocoder in a application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is provided. The apparatus contains a DSP core that performs computations in accordance with a reduced instruction set (RISC) architecture. The circuit further includes a specifically designed slave processor to the DSP core referred to as the minimization processor. The apparatus further comprises a specifically designed block normalization circuitry.

Other References

  • IEEE International Conference on Communication, ICC 90; Chung et al, "Gain Normalization in a 4200 BPS Homomorphic Vocoder", pp. 942-946, vol. 3, Apr. 199
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