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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2001
Dominic Yip, Lindfield, AU;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is disclosed apparatus ( ) for accessing items of information. The apparatus ( ) comprises sixteen memory banks ( ) and an address generator ( ). Each of the sixteen memory banks ( ) stores items of information associated with and corresponding to respective symbols of a sub-set of the symbols. These sub-sets of symbols are mutually exclusive and together comprise a set of symbols. The items of information of the sixteen memory banks ( ) together constitute the whole of the items of information associated with and corresponding to the respective symbols of the set of symbols with no duplication of the items of information. The address generator ( ) simultaneously generates sixteen addresses for the respective sixteen memory banks ( ) in response to one input address, wherein the memory banks ( ) output sixteen items of information associated with and corresponding to the respective symbols within a 4×4 neighbourhood of the symbol corresponding to said input address.