Apparatus and method for processing data with an arithmetic unit

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6217234
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08487356

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An MPEG video decompression method and apparatus utilizing a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens pass over the single two-wire interface for carrying both control and data in token format. A token decode circuit is positioned in certain of the stages for recognizing certain of the tokens as control tokens pertinent to that stage and for passing unrecognized control tokens along the pipeline. Reconfiguration processing circuits are positioned in selected stages and are responsive to a recognized control token for reconfiguring such stage to handle an identified DATA Token. A wide variety of unique supporting subsystem circuitry and processing techniques are disclosed for implementing the system, including memory addressing, transforming data using a common processing block, time synchronization, asynchronous swing buffering, storing of video information, a parallel Huffman decoder, and the like.

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TALON RESEARCH LLC4455 CAMP BOWIE BOULEVARD #74 FORT WORTH TX 76107

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Barnes, David Andrew Irvine, CA 10 622
Dewar, Kevin D Ennis, IE 13 397
Jones, Anthony Mark Eigmegen, NL 65 1714
Sotheran, Martin William Bristol, GB 25 1021

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