Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image data
US5212742A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 24, 1991 |
| Grant date | May 18, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 24, 2011 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N19/30
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus and method for processing video data for compression/decompression in real-time. The apparatus comprises a plurality of compute modules, in a preferred embodiment, for a total of four compute modules coupled in parallel. Each of the compute modules has a processor, dual port memory, scratch-pad memory, and an arbitration mechanism. A first bus couples the compute modules and a host processor. Lastly, the device comprises a shared memory which is coupled to the host processor and to the compute modules with a second bus. The method handles assigning portions of the image for each of the processors to operate upon.
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