Patent ID: 8625666

Claim:
A sender device for encoding a 4:4:4 color space frame of video as a plurality of encoded 4:2:0 color space frames, the plurality of encoded 4:2:0 color space encoded frames is convertibly decodable, identically, as the 4:4:4 color space frame, comprising: a memory for containing the 4:4:4 color space frame; a sender frame buffer of the memory; a sender converter communicatively connected to the sender frame buffer, for transmuting the 4:4:4 color space frame to a plurality of 4:2:0 color space frames, successively, of the sender frame buffer; and an encoder communicatively connected to the sender frame buffer, for respectively encoding, substantially immediately in real-time, each of the plurality of 4:2:0 color space frames, successively, of the sender frame buffer as the plurality of encoded 4:2:0 color space frames.