Industrial Technology Research Institute

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Yao-jen Chang

Chun-Lung Lin

Ching-Chieh Lin

Jih-Sheng Tu

Chao-Hsiung Hung

Sao-Ling Chiu

Chung-Yu Lu

An encoding, a decoding method, a system for encoding and decoding, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. The encoding method includes the following. In a palette mode, if colors of pixels of a coding unit block are all represented by one or more major colors of the coding unit block, a flag is set as a first state value, and if the color of at least one pixel of the coding unit block is not represented by the one or more major colors of the coding unit block, the flag is set as a second state value. The encoding method further includes establishing a palette table corresponding to the coding unit block according to a state value of the flag and the one or more major colors.

Encoding method, decoding method, encoding/decoding system, encoder, and decoder

Semiconductor structures are provided. A semiconductor structure includes a plurality of product regions over a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of alignment regions over the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of first features formed in a material layer over the semiconductor substrate. Each of the alignment regions is surrounded by four of the product regions of a group, and each of the first features extends across two adjacent product regions in the group. The product regions are disposed in rows and columns of a first array, and the alignment regions are disposed in rows and columns of a second array, and the first and second arrays have a same center point.

Semiconductor structure

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Hsinchu, Taiwan

Yao-jen Chang