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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. 02, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 21, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Louis Christopher Milano, Endicott, NY (US);
Michael Patrick Vachon, Endicott, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; H04N / ; H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364725 ; 348407 ; 348409 ; 348412 ; 348415 ; 371 225 ; 371 226 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is an integrated microprocessor chip. The chip includes a digital video decoder Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform element and an on chip Read Only Memory. The on chip Read Only Memory includes (a) a shift register latch for receiving data from off chip pull-up resistors, (b) a register for storing data, (c) a selector and a decoder for selecting memory cells to be read from the register, and (d) a Read Only Memory data output.