Patent ID: 7072395
Filing Date: 2006-07-04
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: retrieving a block of pixels associated with a reference block from a reference frame memory; wherein said block of pixels includes N×M pixels wherein N represents the number of pixels in each row of the reference block and wherein M represents the number of pixels in each column of the reference block; and storing said N×M pixels in a staging memory wherein said N×M pixels are rearranged and stored in the staging memory so as to form P groups each having L pixels such that during each read access cycle all L pixels of a different single one of the P groups is read from the staging memory to a temporary memory; wherein at least one of the P groups of L pixels corresponds to a new row of said block of pixels and at least one of the P groups of L pixels corresponds to a new column of said block of pixels.