Patent ID: 7421130

Claim:
A method for storing two or more minimum coded units of decoded image data arranged in a block-interleaved format, each minimum coded unit corresponding with one 8×8 block of pixel data including at least two blocks of pixel components, comprising the steps of: storing a first minimum coded unit of the image data in a first memory; grouping the image data in the first minimum coded unit into pixel data; and storing the grouped pixel data in a second memory as a block, wherein the block of pixel data is defined by two corner pixels P X, Y , and P X+N, Y+N , where N is an integer, and X and Y are integers denoting two-dimensional coordinates of the pixels, and wherein the step of storing further comprises sequentially storing the pixels P X, Y to P X+n, Y , where n is an integer that ranges from zero to N, and thereafter sequentially storing the pixels P X, Y+1 to P X+n, Y+1 .