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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2005

Filed:

Aug. 08, 2000
Applicants:

Senthil Govindaswamy, San Diego, CA (US);

A. Chris Irvine, Bonsall, CA (US);

Jeff Levin, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Senthil Govindaswamy, San Diego, CA (US);

A. Chris Irvine, Bonsall, CA (US);

Jeff Levin, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N001/327 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An apparatus and method for minimizing the code length of an input address for at least one for variable length encoded data is claimed. A block of variable length encoded data is read. The block of variable length encoded data is then converted into sub-optimall encoded data. The variable length encoded data is defined in having a prefix portion and a suffix portion. The prefix portion of the variable length encoded data is used to signify the look-up table. The suffix portion of the variable length encoded data is used as an input address for the look-up table.


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