Patent · US Expired

Memory access method

US6753871B2 · kind B2 · utility

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20Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateApr 22, 2002
Grant dateJun 22, 2004
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Expiry dateDec 21, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/433
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention provides a memory access method for overlapping partial boundary data in order to reduce or eliminate cross-page penalties when reading data. The method includes the step of a determining step to determine the maximum size of prediction blocks; a storing step to overlap partial boundary data from one side page of a page boundary into the other side page of the page boundary; and a reading step to read a prediction block from the page having all the data of the prediction block when the prediction block is at the page boundaries with overlapping data to eliminate cross-page penalties so as to increase the reading speed. Hence, the invention utilizes an overlapping method to eliminate cross-page penalties when reading the block data so as to increase the memory bandwidth as well as the reading speed.

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