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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
W. James Scheuermann, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
QuickSilver Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/40 ; G06K 9/36 ; G06K 9/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/40 ; G06K 9/36 ; G06K 9/46 ;
Abstract
A fast, memory efficient, lookup table-based system for VLC decoding. Code words are grouped by prefix and recoded to reduce the number of bits that must be matched, thus reducing the memory requirements. General-purpose processor and finite state machine decoder implementations are described.