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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:
Mar. 29, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2002
Applicants:
Athena Christodoulou, Bristol, GB;
Richard Taylor, Bristol, GB;
Christopher Tofts, Bristol, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M007/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An exemplary embodiment is an apparatus for compressing data having an arbitrary probability distribution, the apparatus being configured to obtain a set of samples from said data, create a phase distribution model of said sample data set, and perform a search function adapted to select the elements forming said phase distribution model by evaluating one or more values of the elements within the model and determine those that best fit the distribution of the example data set.