The present disclosure relates to a compression/encoding apparatus and method, a decoding apparatus and method, and a program that allow for provision of a lossless compression technology with higher compression ratio. A GOB data configuration section configures GOB data with a group of digital data that includes a plurality of blocks by treating a frame of delta-sigma-modulated digital data as a block. A table generation section generates a conversion table for encoding the GOB data. An encoding section compresses and encodes the digital data of each block included in the GOB data by using the conversion table. The present technology is applicable, for example, to audio signal compression and encoding, and so on.

Disclosed are four independent circuits for compression, expansion, companding, and post-processing of a compressed delta-sigma bit-stream. Compression and expansion are based on the use of a second-order (or higher-order) delta-sigma modulator, and a nonlinear operation on a delta-sigma modulated bit-stream. Depending on application, the disclosed circuits can operate as a stand-alone integrated circuit, or as compandor apparatus as proposed. Inherited low-pass filter can be digital or analog. Thus, the only external analog component to the IC chip could be a capacitor C, when low-frequency analog signal is compressed or expanded.

An A/D converter includes an adder that calculates a difference between an analog input signal and a predicted value, a quantizer that quantizes the difference output from the adder to convert the analog input signal to a digital signal, a prediction filter that generates a predicted value from the digital signal output from the quantizer, and a D/A converter that converts the predicted value from a digital signal to an analog signal and output the predicted value to the adder. The predicted value before being subjected to conversion to the analog signal by the D/A converter defines and functions as an A/D converted output of the analog input signal input to the adder.

The present disclosure relates to a compression/encoding apparatus and method, a decoding apparatus and method, and a program that allow for provision of a lossless compression technology with higher compression ratio.

A GOB data configuration section configures GOB data with a group of digital data that includes a plurality of blocks by treating a frame of delta-sigma-modulated digital data as a block. A table generation section generates a conversion table for encoding the GOB data. An encoding section compresses and encodes the digital data of each block included in the GOB data by using the conversion table. The present technology is applicable, for example, to audio signal compression and encoding, and so on.

An A/D converter includes an adder that calculates a difference between an analog input signal and a predicted value, a quantizer that quantizes the difference output from the adder to convert the analog input signal to a digital signal, a prediction filter that generates a predicted value from the digital signal output from the quantizer, and a D/A converter that converts the predicted value from a digital signal to an analog signal and output the predicted value to the adder. The predicted value before being subjected to conversion to the analog signal by the D/A converter defines and functions as an A/D converted output of the analog input signal input to the adder.

An error feedback system for a delta sigma modulator is disclosed. The error feedback system has an error transfer function where at least k1 coefficients are set to zero. This allows the error feedback system to be divided into k feedback paths that are performed in parallel at a clock speed that is 1/k of the system clock of the delta sigma modulator (i.e. the rate at which the output of the delta sigma modulator changes).

A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for in-field seismic data compression. The system includes geophones each having a 1-bit adaptive delta modulation for converting analog seismic signals to a modulated signal and transmitting the modulated signal, and a data collection center having a 1D convolutional neural network for receiving and compressing the transmitted modulated signal. The 1D CNN is configured to suppress quantization and random noise in the modulated signal.

A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for in-field seismic data compression. The system includes geophones each having a 1-bit adaptive delta modulation for converting analog seismic signals to a modulated signal and transmitting the modulated signal, and a data collection center having a 1D convolutional neural network for receiving and compressing the transmitted modulated signal. The 1D CNN is configured to suppress quantization and random noise in the modulated signal.