Patent 7349937 was granted and assigned to Samsung on March, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A fast incrementer using zero detection and an increment method thereof. The incrementer performs a logic combination on an operand, first logic state inclusion information for each b-bit group of the operand, flag information for each b-bit group of the operand, and an increment value, and outputs a whole increment value for the operand.