An apparatus and method for increasing the throughput of a data processing system such as an acoustic or image compression system. An addition or subtraction of two pluralities of numbers is accomplished in parallel by combining numbers into a pair of "doublevectors," adding or subtracting the pair of...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US5625713?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5625713 - Apparatus and method for increasing the throughput of an acoustic or image compression system