Patent ID: 9307236
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A system for decoding, in parallel, more than one row of video data of a picture, the system comprising: a first processor that performs a decoding function on blocks of pixels of a first row of video data of the picture, wherein each row of the picture cannot be decoded independently of other rows in the same picture; and a second processor that performs the decoding function on blocks of pixels of a second row of video data of the same picture; wherein the second processor begins performing the decoding function on a block of pixels of the second row only after the first processor performs the decoding function on each of a plurality of predecessor blocks of pixels of the first row upon which decoding of the block of pixels of the second row individually depends, wherein the decoding function comprises one of a complete decoding of a block of pixels or a performance of one or more stages of a decoding pipeline.