Patent ID: 11968381
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for sharing frame decompression circuitry, the method comprising:
accepting, from a video decoder, a first request for a first decompressed frame;
decompressing a first compressed frame to produce the first decompressed frame;
providing, to the video decoder, the first decompressed frame responsive to the first request;
accepting, from a display controller, a second request for a second decompressed frame;
decompressing a second compressed frame to produce the second decompressed frame; and
providing, to the display controller, the second decompressed frame via a video buffer responsive to the second request, the providing of the second decompressed frame including propagating one or more display lines from the video buffer to the display controller based on at least one value in a synchronization register.