Patent RE39080 was granted and assigned to Lucent Technologies Inc. on April, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus for quantizing audio signals is disclosed which advantageously produces a quantized audio signal which can be encoded within an acceptable range. Advantageously, the quantizer uses a scale factor which is interpolated between a threshold based on the calculated threshold of hearing at a given frequency and the absolute threshold of hearing at the same frequency.