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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. 16, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas G Kopet, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Bradford G Taylor, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Gerry C Lui Kuo, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Stephen D Lew, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Assignees:
Array Microsystems, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Yongin, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382307 ; 382232 ; 36471502 ; 370 855 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides an image compression/decompression coprocessor which is integrated on a single chip. The control bus has a control unit which is connected by an internal, global bus to a number of different, special purpose processing units. Each of the processing units is specifically designed to handle only certain steps in compression and decompression processes.