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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:
Sep. 30, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341106 ;
Abstract
An entropy encoder includes: a memory for storing a code table in a compressed data format in which continuing digits '1' that continue successively from the most significant bit of a code word for a predetermined number of bits are removed, together with a control code indicative of the type of the original code word, and a code word restoring unit for restoring the original code word from the compressed code word by supplementing a predetermined number of digits '1' to the compressed code word according to the type of the original code word.