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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:
Jul. 24, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2006
Applicants:
Yasuharu Tanaka, Osaka, JP;
Shinji Kitamura, Kyoto, JP;
Taichi Nagata, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A VLC mode judgment section performs judgment on whether or not a received group (Last, Run, Level) exists in a VLC table and then performs judgment on which one of a first escape mode, a second escape more and a third escape mode is suitable. According to a judgment result of the VLC mode judgment section, an FLC processing section or a coding mode selection section performs variable-length coding using selected one of the received group (Last, Run, Level), a group generated in the first escape mode, and a group generated by the second escape group or fixed-length coding using a third escape mode.