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DRAM mapping for a digital video data decompression processor

EP 0696874 B1 · Applicant: General Instrument Corporation

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  • Filed July 31, 1995 and granted January 16, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 31, 2015.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by January 31, 2021.
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FiledJuly 31, 1995
PublishedFebruary 14, 1996
GrantedJanuary 16, 2002
Term endedJuly 31, 2015
Application numberEP 95111989
Classification (CPC)H04N19/61 +2 more

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