G11B 2020/10666
Ring buffers
Official title: {Ring buffers, e.g. buffers wherein an iteratively progressing read or write pointer moves back to the beginning of the buffer when reaching the last storage cell}
G11B2020/10666 (Ring buffers) appears on 86 US grants and 75 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 86
- Published applications
- 75
- Assignees
- 56
- Inventors
- 196
- Latest grant
- 17 Jun 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Video processing circuit and associated video processing method17 Jun 2025US 12,334,109 B2Sigmastar Technology Ltd.
- Information processing device and information processing method9 Jan 2024US 11,869,539 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Mechanism for retrieval of previously captured audio30 May 2023US 11,662,974 B2Apple Inc.
- Video processing system using ring buffer and racing-mode ring buffer access control scheme20 Apr 2021US 10,984,832 B2Mediatek Inc.
- Mechanism for retrieval of previously captured audio13 Apr 2021US 10,976,990 B2Apple Inc.
- Video processing circuit and associated video processing method11 Apr 2024US 2024/0119966 A1Sigmastar Technology Ltd.
- Information processing device, information processing method, and program8 Jun 2023US 2023/0178108 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Mechanism for retrieval of previously captured audio15 Jul 2021US 2021/0216273 A1Apple Inc.
- Video processing system using ring buffer and racing-mode ring buffer access control scheme7 May 2020US 2020/0143836 A1Mediatek Inc.
- Audio buffering for processing with variable lookahead19 Mar 2020US 2020/0090697 A1Apple Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Streaming information appliance with circular buffer for receiving and selectively reading blocks of streaming information139US 6,748,481 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2004
- Disk drive write verifying unformatted data sectors137US 8,004,785 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2011
- Disk drive modifying metadata cached in a circular buffer when a write operation is aborted118US 8,756,361 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2014
- Method for increasing a processor operating frequency when other subsystem demands are low115US 8,078,901 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2011
- Digital data reproducing apparatus and method employing buffer memories for error compensation and accomodating differences in reproduction and processing rates69US 5,471,450 ASony Corporation · 1995