The half-band filter is essentially an FIR filter, but nearly half of the coefficients are zero, thus reducing the computational load to half that of a regular FIR filter.
The half-band filter has the following characteristics:
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The passband width (passband cutoff frequency) is equal to the stopband width (where is the stopband starting frequency), and the passband ripple and stopband ripple are also equal.
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The frequency response of the half-band filter satisfies
The unit impulse response satisfies
is the filter length and must be an odd number.