High speed digital video decompression
CA 2190797 C · Owner: Zhou, Chang-Guo · Inventors: Zhou, Chang-Guo; Jabbi, Amandeep S.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A method and apparatus for fast and cost-effective digital video decompression is disclosed. The invention implements the inverse quantization inverse discrete cosine transform and motion compensation functions for an MPEG decoder in a pipelined parallel processor. The IDCT and motion compensation functions are implemented to maximize parallelization by using partitioned arithmetic and logic operations in a superscalar microprocessor. This approach drastically reduces the total number of instruction cycles required to perform the IDCT and motion compensation functions.
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed November 20, 1996 and granted October 23, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 20, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 20, 2018.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.