“…However, the generalization to the 2-D case of the efficient 1-D orthogonal synthesis techniques appears to be a genuinely difficult (and still unsolved) probIemo Therefore, we consider in this paper onlyfirst-order allpassfitters, for which some nonorthogonal realizations have already been proposed [Joshi, Singh and Rai 1981;Ganapathy, Reddy and Reddy 1983;Reddy, Roy and Hazra 1986;Manivannan and Eswaran 1988].…”