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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2005
Applicant:
Richard Neil Hunt, Herts, GB;
Inventor:
Richard Neil Hunt, Herts, GB;
Assignees:
MStar Semiconductor, Inc., , KY;
MStar Software R&D, Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
MStar France SAS, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
MStar Semiconductor, Inc., , TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is provided of characterising a data stream of binary symbols, the method comprising sampling the stream at a predetermined rate sufficient to capture at least two samples per binary symbol, identifying the shortest continuous run of samples having the same logic level and assigning a symbol rate to the stream on the basis that the identified run is one symbol in length.