Patent ID: 11935153
Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. An image data processing method, comprising:
issuing a load instruction including a request, from memory, for pixel data corresponding to a pixel of a compressed block of pixels, the load instruction comprising identification information identifying the pixel and other pixels as belonging to the compressed block of pixels, the identification information corresponding to previous identification information used to identify the pixel as belonging to the block of pixels prior to being compressed;
identifying, via the identification information in the load instruction, the pixel and the other pixels as belonging to the compressed block of pixels;
sending additional requests for pixel data for the other pixels which are determined, via the identification information included with the load instruction, to belong to the compressed block of pixels; and
fetching pixel data of the compressed block of pixels from multiple lines of a cache.