Properties of minimum mean squared error block quantizers (Corresp.)

Two results in minimum mean square error quantization theory are presented. The first section gives a simplified derivation of a well-known upper bound to the distortion introduced by ak-dimensional optimum quantizer. It is then shown that an optimum multidimensional quantizer preserves the mean vector of the input and that the mean square quantization error is given by the sum of the component variances of the input minus the sum of the variances of the output.