Dr Robert Swann

innovation management

Patents

  1. 'Image Processing' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 50K)
    R E M Swann, R W L Tan, R W Young, Cambridge Consultants / Consignia Plc
    Patent Number WO0203330, Published 1 October 2002
  2. 'Image Processing for Clustering Related Text Objects' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 65K)
    R E M Swann, R W L Tan, R W Young, Cambridge Consultants / Consignia Plc
    Patent Number WO0203315, Published 1 October 2002
  3. 'Image Processing Method using Variance Analysis' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 45K)
    R E M Swann, R W L Tan, R W Young, Cambridge Consultants / Consignia Plc
    Patent Number WO0203681, Published 1 October 2002
  4. 'Data Access in a Processor' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 40K)
    Instruction in which non-adjacent register bytes are combined to form a long operand
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd
    Patent Number GB2382675, Published 4 June 2003
  5. 'Data Access in a Processor' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 40K)
    Instruction set including instructions that combine bytes of a register horizontally and vertically to form long operands
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd.
    Patent Number GB2382676, Published 21 August 2003
  6. 'Data Access in a Processor' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 40K)
    Instruction in which an operand is derived in a neighbourhood access fashion
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd
    Patent Number GB2382677, Published 4 June 2003
  7. 'Two dimensional memory structure with diagonal bit line' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 40K)
    Memory array having two orthogonal sets of word lines and a diagonal arrangement of bit lines
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd
    Patent Number GB2382706, Published 4 June 2003
  8. 'Vector Processing System' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 35K)
    Execution of instruction by each of a number of parallel processors is dependant on a flag of the respective processor
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd.
    Patent Number GB2382886, Published 6 May 2004
  9. 'Instruction Execution in a Processor' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 35K)
    Splitting instructions at decode stage between vector and scalar processors
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd
    Patent Number GB2382887, Published 14 August 2003
  10. 'Data processor with vector register file' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 30K)
    Two dimensional access to register array (including register file window; toroidal register topology)
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd
    Patent Number EP1320029, Published 18 June 2003
  11. 'Data access in a processor using a memory array accessed by coordinate instructions' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 40K)
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd
    Patent Number GB2383145, Published 18 June 2003
  12. 'Repeated instruction execution' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 40K)
    Instruction that is repeated a number of times dependant on the value of the result of the instruction after each iteration
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd
    Patent Number US2003159023, Published 18 June 2003
  13. 'Video-telephony system' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 35K)
    Wireless device can co-opt nearby video cameras
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd.
    Patent Number US2003160861, Published 28 August 2003
  14. 'A processor where some registers are not available to compiler generated code' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 30K)
    Registers that cannot be accessed by the compiler or the operating system but can be accessed by applications
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd.
    Patent Number GB2390443, Published 22 January 2004
  15. 'Narrow/wide Cache' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 30K)
    Caching of narrow data and pass-through of wide data
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd.
    Patent Number GB2390700, Published 29 January 2004
  16. 'Application registers' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 40K)
    Registers that cannot be accessed by the compiler or the operating system but can be accessed by applications
    N Bailey, S Barlow, D Plowman, R Swann, T Ramsdale, Alphamosaic Ltd.
    Patent Number US2004015682, Published 22 January 2004
  17. 'Method and system for generating compressed video to improve reverse playback' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 40K)
    A method of improving the quality of reverse playback of video through techniques for modifying the encoding.
    N Johnson, R Swann, R Griffiths, K Bracey, Broadcom Corporation.
    Patent Number US20080298769, Published 04 December 2008
  18. 'Method and system for processing text in a video stream' Acrobat (PDF) format (PDF 1 page, 40K)
    A method of improving the communication of text in a video stream.
    N Johnson, R Swann, R Griffiths, K Bracey, Broadcom Corporation.
    Patent Number US20080297657, Published 04 December 2008