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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 01, 1983
Elwyn R Berlekamp, Berkeley, CA (US);
James A Bixby, San Diego, CA (US);
James U Lemke, Del Mar, CA (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
In a multi-channel device for the processing of digital data bytes comprised of parallel arrangements of data bits, the invention calls for recognition of the fact that--irrespective of skew and other interchannel variations in the processing of such data bits--the median-occurring bit of each successive data byte constitutes a good representative of the time of occurrence of the byte in question. By suitably buffering the bits of successive data bytes, a 'median clock' that is slaved to the aforenoted 'median-occurring' bits may be used to clock data bytes--devoid of inter-channel timing errors--out of the apparatus used for the indicated buffering operation.