Patent ID: 8345167

Claim:
A method of accessing pictures, the method comprising: reading a first portion of a first field and a first portion of a second field being stored in a first page of a first bank of a memory, wherein the first field and the second field belong to different pictures; reading a second portion of the first field being stored in a second page of the first bank of the memory; reading a second portion of a second field being stored in the second page of the first bank; and performing a multi-field video operation according to the first portion and the second portion of the first field and the first portion and the second portion of the second field; wherein an address of the first portion of the first field has a corresponding relation with an address of the first portion of the second field, and the data read from the first page of the first bank for performing the multi-field video operation is accessed at once before accessing another page of the first bank.