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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:
Oct. 10, 2000
Filed:
May. 11, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Redford, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Oak Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341 67 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for decoding of two part binary symbols, such as JPEG symbols, is disclosed. The invention takes advantage of the relationship between the Huffman symbol length, the magnitude length, and the overall symbol length so that none of these lengths need to be stored in memory. Using the invention, a Huffman symbol can be detected. Once the symbol is detected, the invention facilitates the determination of the Huffman symbol length, the magnitude length, and the overall symbol length.