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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:
Jan. 05, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Charles H Sobey, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 277 ; 371 3703 ;
Abstract
A detection device for detecting a pattern and determining valid patterns by a series of tests. These tests include rejecting patterns based on minimum Hamming distance, spectral energies that are not concentrated with a predetermined ideal spectrum, that are not valid predetermined valid codewords, patterns that are not anti-symmetric and that have closest transition spacing.