Patent ID: 7916363

Claim:
A non-transitory computer information product, comprising: a computer readable medium; data stored on the computer readable medium that, when interpreted by a computer, defines a bitstream for compressed image data, comprising: for each image, a picture header followed by image scan data, wherein the image scan data includes data corresponding to a plurality of macroblock rasterscans, wherein the data for each macroblock rasterscan includes data for a plurality of macroblocks for a band of lines in the image followed by padding, whereby data for each macroblock rasterscan terminates on a data boundary; and wherein the picture header references an image scan index that indicates a number of macroblock rasterscans in the image scan data and a number of lines per macroblock rasterscan, followed by entries of the index, and wherein each entry in the index includes an offset of the macroblock rasterscan in the image scan data.