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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:
Nov. 01, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2001
Applicants:
Edward L. Schwartz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yutaka Satoh, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Edward L. Schwartz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yutaka Satoh, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K009/36 ; G06K009/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for coding and decoding information is described. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a memory and decoding hardware. The memory stores run counts and/or skip counts and the decoding hardware decodes a run count and/or a skip count obtained from the memory during decoding.