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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:
Dec. 17, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ken Sakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Kouzi Hashimoto, Mitaka, JP;
Ikuya Kawasaki, Kodaira, JP;
Atsushi Hasegawa, Koganei, JP;
Kazuhiko Iwasaki, Hachiohji, JP;
Assignees:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Microcomputer System, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395375 ; 3642443 ; 3642545 ; 364D / ;
Abstract
A method for searching the memory of a data processing apparatus including a decoder for decoding the contents of an instruction and an execution unit for executing the instruction based on an output from the decoder is performed in response to a search instruction which identifies a desired data storage area from a plurality of data storage areas in the memory which includes an array data structure.