Abstract
The invention comprises an efficient system and method for performing the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) in support of time-domain aliasing cancellation (TDAC) perceptive encoding compression of digital audio. In one embodiment, an AC-3 encoder performs a required time-domain to frequency-domain transformation via a MDCT. The AC-3 specification presents a non-optimized equation for calculating the MDCT. In one embodiment of the present invention, an MDCT transformer (230) is utilized which produces the same results as carrying out the calculations directly as in the AC-3 equation, but requires substantially lower computational resources. Because the TDAC scheme requires MDCT calculations on differing block sizes, called the long and short blocks, one embodiment of the present invention utilizes complex-valued premultiplication and postmultiplication steps which prepare and arrange the data samples so that both the long and short block transforms may be computed with a computationally efficient FFT. The premultiplication and postmultiplication steps are carefully structured to work with FFT's in a manner which will give the same numeric results as would be achieved with a direct calculation of the MDCT.
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