Abstract

In many applications involving the coding and processing of speech signals the relevant applicable codebook is one which may be termed a sparse codebook. That is, the majority of elements in the codebook are zero valued. The searching of such a sparse codebook is accelerated in accord with the present invention by generating auxiliary information defining the sparse nature of the codebok and using this information to assist and speed up searches of the codebook. In a particular method of searching the calculation of the distance between a target vector and a stored codebook vector is enhanced by use of a distortion metric derived from energy terms and correlation terms of the codebook entries. Calculation of these energy and correlation terms is speeded up by exploiting the sparseness of the codebook entries. The non-zero elements (NZE) of the space codebook are each identified and are defined by their offset from a reference point.

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