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

Claim 13:
14. An electronic device that shares frame decompression circuitry, the electronic device comprising:
means for accepting, from a video decoder, a first request for a first decompressed frame;
means for decompressing a first compressed frame to produce the first decompressed frame;
means for providing, to the video decoder, the first decompressed frame responsive to the first request;
means for accepting, from a display controller, a second request for a second decompressed frame;
means for decompressing a second compressed frame to produce the second decompressed frame; and
means for providing, to the display controller, the second decompressed frame responsive to the second request, the means for providing the second decompressed frame including:
means for buffering video to propagate the second decompressed frame to the display controller; and
means for synchronizing propagation of the second decompressed frame.