Patent ID: 8718451

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a first circuit configured to generate an intermediate video frame by de-mosaicing a source frame, wherein (i) said source frame has a source resolution and has a Bayer color space and (ii) said intermediate video frame has said source resolution and has an intermediate color space different than said Bayer color space; and a second circuit configured to (i) generate a video stream by compressing said intermediate video frame with a video compression technique, (ii) generate a still picture by buffering a copy of said source frame and (iii) transfer both said video stream and said still picture to a medium, wherein (a) said still picture has said source resolution and a Bayer-domain format when transferred to said medium, (b) generating said still picture occurs in a parallel path with said compressing of said intermediate video frame, (c) said video stream has a lower resolution than said still picture and (d) said source frame used to generate said intermediate video frame is excluded from said buffering.