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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159375 | Simplified receiver for use in multi-wire communication An encoder encodes data into a series of parallel codewords. Each codeword is expressed two sets of logic values (e.g., a set of logic 0s and a set of logic 1s) on output nodes. The encoder selects a current codeword from a group of codewords in a codespace which do... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8125358 | Method for decoding a message A method for decoding a message is disclosed. The method is used for an electronic system for displaying messages. The method comprises the following steps: a processing module decoding an un-decoded string of a message received from a message transferring terminal,... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8072357 | Method and system for reducing contexts for context based compression systems For context based compression techniques, for example Context Based YK compression, a method and system for grouping contexts from a given context model together to create a new context model that has fewer contexts, but retains acceptable compression gains compared... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7986251 | Input/output (IO) interface and method of transmitting IO data An input/output (IO) interface includes a data encoder which encodes each of a plurality of pieces of parallel data having different timings and generates a plurality of pieces of encoded data, and an alternating current (AC) coupling transmission unit which transmi... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982637 | Data encoding method The present encoding method encodes binary data as sequences of code points occupying the Private Use Area of the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane. The encoded data can be contained within a stream of UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32 code units and subsequently decoded to yi... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7907069 | Fast compression method for scientific data A method and system allows for fast compression and decompressing of data using existing repetitive interleaved patterns within scientific data (floating point, integer, and image). An advantage of the method and system is that it is so fast that it can be used to s... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7868790 | Single ended pseudo differential interconnection circuit and single ended pseudo differential signaling method A single ended pseudo differential signaling method may add a 1-bit signal to n-bit data if transmitting the n-bit data. Neighboring two signals among the 1-bit signal and data signals are compared to each other to generate detection signals. ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7843365 | Data encoding and decoding methods and computer readable medium thereof A data encoding method is provided. The data has several bytes, and each byte has n bits. The data encoding method includes the following steps. First, a specific value is defined. Next, the data is divided into one or several data blocks each having m bytes, wherei... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7821427 | Data processing system and method A method of processing an encoded data stream comprises determining one or more data strings of interest; wherein the data string comprises a predetermined sequence of characters; encoding (3) the or each data string using the same encoding that was used to e... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817068 | Low power serial link bus architecture Embodiments of the present invention provide a bus architecture utilizing multiple-pumped serial links, and a combination of encoding and serialization to two data streams to transmit and receive a serialized data stream over a bus. The order in which encoding and s... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7796058 | Method and apparatus for data transform In an apparatus and method of transforming a block of data elements, the order of the data elements is transformed. The data elements are stored in an initial order in respective ones of first and second memory elements, each first memory element corresponding to a ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7728741 | Code conversion device, code conversion method used for the same and program thereof Provided is a code conversion device that is capable of converting codes even if an input code sequence is invalid, and is able to reduce the amount of processing. When a first code sequence is input, the code conversion device generates a decoded signal by decoding... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7701368 | Balanced data bus inversion A method and apparatus for balancing an output load using data bus inversion is disclosed. In brief, one such technique comprises measuring the “balance” of data bits across a data bus (e.g., the number of zero values compared to the number of one values in a se... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7692562 | System and method for representing digital media A computerized system for representing a digital media using both a bit stream and an associated metadata includes a codec configured to encode the digital media to the bit stream. The codec is further configured to generate a metadata representation stream of the b... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7609180 | Method and apparatus for bus encoding and decoding A method and an apparatus for bus encoding and a method and an apparatus for bus decoding are provided. The methods and apparatuses for bus encoding/decoding use a discontinuous pattern table (DPT) to store discontinuous pattern pairs. The tables are kept synchronou... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7583208 | Compact encoding of non-repeating sequences Techniques for encoding and decoding non-repeating data objects are described herein. According to one embodiment, an input stream having non-repeating literals is received to be encoded into an output stream having a preamble and a payload, where each of the non-re... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7576664 | Apparatus and method of generating DBI signal in semiconductor memory apparatus An apparatus for generating a DBI signal in a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a data switching detection unit that detects whether or not previous data is consistent with current data and outputs a detection signal according to a detection result, and a DBI ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7557738 | Text encoding system and method The invention provides a method of encoding a binary data message for transmission over a data network. The method comprises allocating consecutive six bit sequences from the binary data message to consecutive respective bytes of an encoded data message; adding a pr... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7554464 | Method and system for processing data having a pattern of repeating bits A method and system allows for fast compression and decompressing of data using existing repetitive interleaved patterns within scientific data (floating point, integer, and image). An advantage of the method and system is that it is so fast that it can be used to s... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7538698 | Apparatus and method of generating DBI signal in semiconductor integrated circuit An apparatus for generating a DBI signal in a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a full adder that includes data input terminals and a carry terminal, each of which receives data, performs an operation on the received data, and outputs a sum and a carry. A DB... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7538699 | Single ended pseudo differential interconnection circuit and single ended pseudo differential signaling method A single ended pseudo differential signaling method may add a 1-bit signal to n-bit data if transmitting the n-bit data. Neighboring two signals among the 1-bit signal and data signals are compared to each other to generate detection signals. ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7525457 | Transforming design objects in a computer by converting data sets between data set types A computer implemented method converts a data set of a first type to a data set type of a second type. The method includes casting up a first data set of a first type to a prescribed data set type that is large enough to encompass a data set of a second type. The me... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522073 | Self-adapted bus inversion Embodiments of the invention generally provide methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for selecting a data bus inversion (DBI) mode of operation. A comparison circuit of a device may receive multiple packets of data to be transmitted to another device over a ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7501963 | Balanced data bus inversion A method and apparatus for balancing an output load using data bus inversion is disclosed. In brief, one such technique comprises measuring the “balance” of data bits across a data bus (e.g., the number of zero values compared to the number of one values in a se... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7495587 | Low power balance code using data bus inversion A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption needed to refresh a memory may receive data having been encoded using data bus inversion (DBI), the DBI data having a first delta between a number of zeros for different cases between zero and a DBI maximum, bala... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7477167 | Character string processing apparatus, character string processing method, and image-forming apparatus A character string processing apparatus converting a character string encoded by a first encoding method to a second encoding method selected from a plurality of encoding methods is disclosed. The character string processing apparatus includes an encoding method det... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477168 | Apparatus for and method of processing data A data processing apparatus for processing a plurality of input signals to increase the number of bits thereof to disperse 0s and 1s therein and then converting the input signals into a serial signal. A signal generating unit generates including signal generating me... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7443877 | Method for coding a sequence of data bits, in particular for transmission via an air interface A method for coding a sequence of data bits (B1-B5), at least one of said bits having a logical on value or a logical off value. The data bits are organized in a sequence of time slot frames (Fr1-FR5). At least one time slot frame has a p... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439879 | Interface circuit and binary data transfer method An interface circuit capable of controlling a noise margin and a time margin for producing an output a binary data is realized. The circuit comprises a detecting unit for detecting a transition state of logic levels in received binary data corresponding to preceding... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7428573 | Transaction accelerator for client-server communication systems In a network having transaction acceleration, for an accelerated transaction, a client directs a request to a client-side transaction handler that forwards the request to a server-side transaction handler, which in turn provides the request, or a representation ther... | 09/23/2008 |
| RE40509 | Methods and apparatus for abbreviated instruction sets adaptable to configurable processor architecture An improved manifold array (ManArray) architecture addresses the problem of configurable application-spacific instruction set optimization and instruction memory reduction using an instruction abbreviation process thereby further optimizing the general ManArray arch... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7420487 | Denoising video A denoising process statistically processes a series of frames of a motion picture to construct respective data structures for the frames. Each data structure indicates for each of multiple contexts, occurrences of symbols that have the same context and are in the c... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420482 | Method of encoding and playing back audiovisual or audio documents and device for implementing the method The invention can be used to play back an audiovisual or audio document received in a first encoding format within a local area network. A first device plays back the document in the received format, then a user decides to play back the document on a device having a... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7411524 | Channel coding method with corresponding code and demodulation and decoding method and means A coding/decoding system and method are disclosed. Coding, as used herein, refers assigning values to cells. Information to be coded is processed stepwise in information pieces, with bitwise processing (single information bits as information pieces) as a special cas... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408482 | Integrated circuit devices having data inversion circuits therein with multi-bit prefetch structures and methods of operating same Integrated circuit devices include data inversion circuits therein that are configured to evaluate at least first and second ordered groups of input data in parallel with an ordered group of output data previously generated by the data inversion circuit. The data in... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408483 | Apparatus and method of generating DBI signal in semiconductor memory apparatus An apparatus for generating a DBI signal in a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a data switching detection unit that detects whether or not previous data is consistent with current data and outputs a detection signal according to a detection result, and a DBI ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400275 | Encoding/decoding device for compressing or expanding digital data A general-purpose processor expands and transmits to a volatile memory compressed program data and compressed parameter data stored in a nonvolatile memory. The DSP processor reads the expanded program data and the expanded parameter data into a program memory and t... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7382878 | System and method for data encryption A system and method for encrypting and/or compressing an input data string is disclosed. The input data string is divided into a plurality of blocks of data that each contains a plurality of bits of data. A block code is used to identify the size of each of the bloc... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378993 | Method and system for transmitting data A method and system for transmitting binary-coded data use partitioning of data words in a plurality of data nibbles. The data nibbles are coded using modified a 1-bit hot coding format that transforms a data nibble in a data segment including a plurality of bit gro... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372376 | System of converting information words to a signal A method of converting m-bit information words to a run-length constrained modulated signal includes converting the information words into n-bit code words. The available code words are distributed over at least one group (G1) of a first type and at least one... | 05/13/2008 |
