Patent ID: 7636490

Claim:
A method for deblocking pixels, said method comprising: storing a first plurality of pixels that are proximate to a first edge in a buffer; fetching a second plurality of pixels that are proximate to the first edge and pixels that are proximate to a second edge during a single read from a random access memory; filtering the first plurality of pixels that are proximate to the first edge and the second plurality of pixels that are proximate to the first edge, thereby resulting in a first plurality of filtered pixels that are proximate to the first edge and a second plurality of filtered pixels that are proximate to the first edge; filtering the pixels that are proximate to the second edge; writing the first plurality of filtered pixels that are proximate to the first edge to the random access memory while filtering the pixels that are proximate to the second edge; and wherein the first plurality of pixels and the second plurality of pixels and the pixels that are proximate to the second edge are luma pixels.