US Patent 7586428 Non-linear processing of signals

In a non-linear processing system, the main non-linear processing and filtering is performed with low precision in a separate branch. A low-precision version (22) of the input signal (14) is created in an extractor (20), which is processed non-linearly in a low-precision non-linear processing unit (11) under constraints put on the non-linear processing. Quantisation errors or other artefacts, created by the use of low precision signals are finally removed by a precision restoring processing in a precision restoring unit (26) using the full-precision signal (14).