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Signal processing apparatus, signal transmitting system, and signal processing method

Granted 26 Mar 2013 · 4 office actions

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Abstract

A signal processing apparatus, which executing a decoding process for a digital signal Manchester-encoded by assigning two bits of “10†to any one of binary digital signals “0 and “1†, and assigning two bits of “01†to the other binary digital signal, is provide with a decoding unit which executes the decoding process with a processing unit corresponding to a term of two bits of the Manchester-encoded digital signal so as to detect only any one of the first bit and the second bit of the Manchester-encoded digital signal.

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IPC · International Patent Classification
Section H — Electricity
  • H04L7/02
USPC · US Patent Classification
375/361375/354375/295375/316375/355375/359

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Hirdepal Singh
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related publicationUS 20090110111 A130 Apr 2009

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