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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:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2007
Applicants:
Zahid Hussain, England, GB;
Huy Duc Bui, San Jose, CA (US);
John Brothers, Calistoga, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Via Technologies, Inc., Hsin-Tien, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Various embodiments of decoding systems and methods are disclosed. One system embodiment, among others, comprises a software programmable core processing unit having a variable length decoding unit (VLD) unit configured to execute a shader, the shader configured to selectively implement decoding of a video stream coded based on a plurality of different coding methods to provide a decoded data output, wherein the decoding is implemented using a combination of software and hardware.