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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2006
Applicants:
Daniel Mulligan, Austin, TX (US);
David Baker, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Daniel Mulligan, Austin, TX (US);
David Baker, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Sigmatel, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method operable to automatically disable input/output signal processing based on the required data format is provided. The need for an input/output module, such as an encoder, required to process input signal having a first data format (i.e. multimedia format) and produce an output signal having a second format (i.e. multimedia format) is determined. When the input/output module is not required to produce the output signal in the second format, the input/output module is disabled.