Patent 7386447 was granted and assigned to Texas Instruments on June, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An overflow problem of LSF quantization in G.729 Annex B speech encoding which may lead to non-assignment of a codebook index. Preferred embodiments fix the problem with default or limited random variable assignments or flagging the overflow and adjusting the frame encoding such as by limiting spectral components or changing quantization targets.