Patent ID: 8803893

Claim:
An image data processing apparatus comprising: a first operational processing circuit; a second operational processing circuit; a third operational processing circuit, each of the first operational processing circuit, the second operational processing circuit, and the third operational processing circuit being configured to have a variable circuit configuration and to execute operational processing on image data; and a control section that controls the first to third operational processing circuits to execute one of a plurality of types of operational processing performed on the image data in a predetermined order, wherein the control section is configured to: configure the first operational processing circuit, the second operational processing circuit, and the third operational processing circuit so that, at a first point in time, the first operational processing circuit executes a first type of operational processing, the second operational processing circuit executes a second type of operational processing and the third operational processing circuit executes a third type of operational processing; configure the first operational processing circuit, the second operational processing circuit and the third operational processing circuit so that, at a second point in time, the first operational processing circuit and the second operational processing circuit execute the second type of operational processing by dividing a processing-unit data-element of the image data and the third processing circuit executes the third type of operational processing; and configure the first operational processing circuit, the second operational processing circuit and third operational processing circuit so that, at a third point in time, the first operational processing circuit and the second operational processing circuit execute the third type of operational processing by dividing the processing-unit data-element of the image data and the third operational processing circuit executes the third type operational processing.