Patent ID: 9516372
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A multimedia system comprising: an I/O (input/output) control chip including a first input port to receive a first audio/video data stream from an external source, an interface bridge to receive a second audio/video data stream from a processing core chip via one or more shared I/O channels, and one or more audio/video sub-processing engines to merge the first audio/video data stream and the second audio/video data stream to generate a merged audio/video data stream, the interface bridge further to transfer the merged audio/video data stream from the one or more audio/video sub-processing engines to the processing core chip via the one or more shared I/O channels; the processing core chip for processing the merged audio/video data stream received from the I/O control chip to output a picture-in-picture display, and for generating the second audio/video data stream; and the one or more shared I/O channels for transferring the merged audio/video data stream from the I/O control chip to the processing core chip and transferring the second audio/video data stream from the processing core chip to the I/O control chip.