Noise shaping requantization circuit

Claim 1

A noise shaping requantization circuit for converting an input digital signal, which has a high degree of resolution and has been generated using an original sampling frequency, to a requantized output digital signal having a lower degree of resolution that the input digital signal by using a resampling frequency that is higher than the original sampling frequency, comprising: input terminal means (1) coupled to receive said input digital signal; operational circuit means (3) coupled to receive said input digital signal from said input terminal means to produce an output signal; output terminal means (2); and quantizer circuit means (4) coupled to receive said output signal from said operational circuit means for producing said requantized output digital signal and for supplying said requantized output signal to said output terminal means and to said operational circuit means for producing an output signal A(z) from said operational circuit means; wherein, respectively expressing said input digital signal as X(z), said requantized output digital signal as Y(z), said output signal from said operational circuit means as A(z), and a unit delay time corresponding to a resampling period as z -1 , the signal A(z) is expressed as follows: ##EQU57## where respective constants b, c, d and e simultaneously satisfy all of the following relationships: b≧1/2,e≧0, d+e>0 b(d+e)(c+d+e)-b.sup.2 e-1.2(d+e).sup.2 >0 8b+4c+2d+e<15 8b+4c+2d<14+e.