Pulse or digital communications – Bandwidth reduction or expansion – Television or motion video signal
Patent
1995-05-01
1998-12-15
Chin, Stephen
Pulse or digital communications
Bandwidth reduction or expansion
Television or motion video signal
704500, 704501, 704504, H04B 166
Patent
active
058504184
ABSTRACT:
An encoding system and an encoding method for encoding a digital signal having at least a first and a second digital signal component. The encoding system includes a splitter unit for dividing the bandwidth of the digital signal components into M successive frequency bands, and generating in response to the digital signal components M sub signals (SB.sub.m1,SB.sub.mr) for each digital signal component, each sub signal of a signal component being associated with one of the frequency bands (m); a bit need determining unit for determining bit needs for time equivalent signal blocks of the sub signals, a signal combination unit for combining, in a number of at least one frequency bands, time equivalent signal blocks of corresponding sub signals of the at least first and second signal component so as to obtain a time equivalent signal block of a composite sub signal in each the at least one frequency bands; quantizing unit for quantizing time equivalent signal blocks of the sub signals in those frequency bands in which no composite sub signal is available and for quantizing the corresponding time equivalent signal blocks of the composite sub signal in the at least one frequency bands in which a composite sub signal is available. Further, a bit allocation unit is available for deriving allocation information (n.sub.mi,n.sub.jc) from bit needs obtained in the bit need determining unit and from a value B, where B corresponds to a number of bits in an available bitpool. The bit need determining unit is adapted to determine a common bit need b.sub.mc for a time equivalent signal block of a composite sub signal SB.sub.mc in a frequency band m from the bit needs b.sub.mi of the time equivalent signal blocks of the corresponding sub signals of the at least two signal components in that frequency band from which the time equivalent signal block of the composite sub signal has been derived, by taking the common bit need b.sub.mc equal to a weighted sum of the bit needs b.sub.mi. The encoding system can be a subband encoding system or a transform encoding system.
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Belk Michael E.
Chin Stephen
Ghayour Mohammad J
U.S. Philips Corporation
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