Patent ID: 11863208
Assignee: IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Field: Basic communication processes (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 12:
13. A method of data decompression comprising:
receiving one or more blocks of data, the one or more blocks of data encoding one or more groups of data items;
reading header data into a first buffer;
reading body data into a second buffer; and
for each of the encoded groups of data items:
reading header data for the group from the first buffer, wherein the header data for a group of data items comprises a h-bit indication of a b-bit body portion size, for the group of data items, wherein b is fixed within a group;
determining the bit size b of the body portion, for the group of data items from the header data;
reading a body data field from the second buffer based on the determined body portion size, with one body portion for each of the data items in the group; and
decoding the body data field to generate decoded data items, wherein each of the decoded data items comprises n bits, where n≥n.