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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3582611 ; 341 63 ;
Abstract
An encoding/decoding method for carrying out conversion between run lengths and corresponding run length codes is provided. The run length codes has a format including a first part for storing first information and a second part for storing second information. The first information indicates the length of the code and the second information indicates the corresponding run length. The total number of bits of each of the run length codes is set as an integral multiple of a predetermined number of bits. The present encoding/decoding method is suitable for use in an image processing system, such as a facsimile machine.