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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, Ascot, 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:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Various embodiments of decoding systems and methods are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises providing a shader configurable with a plurality of instruction sets to decode a video stream coded a plurality of different coding methods, loading the shader having one of the plurality of instruction sets to a variable length decoding (VLD) unit of a software programmable core processing unit for execution thereof, and decoding the video stream by executing the shader on the VLD unit.