Patent ID: 8473720

Claim:
A method for providing generic formatted data describing a processing operation to be carried out on an object at one or plural dimensions, comprised in the group consisting of an image, a digital audio signal, a sequence of images, a modulated signal, simulation data, and a numerical mesh; the generic formatted data being provided to at least one digital data processor, configured to translate the generic formatted data into specific formatted data, the generic formatted data comprising data relative to logical blocks, at least one of the logical blocks corresponding to an object to be processed according, directly or indirectly, to specific data formatted by at least one processing platform with processor(s) and memory(s), located upstream from the processor or integrated into the processor, the object being made up of elementary information of a same type, all information being represented by at least one numerical value, the elementary information being comprised in the group consisting of pixels of an image, samples of a digital audio signal, intensity and phase of a modulated signal, data characterizing a status of simulation data, temporal and/or spatial information characterizing points of a numerical mesh, the method comprising: providing the processor with first data, being part of generic formatted data, describing at least one sequence of generic operations to be performed on at least one logical block and/or on at least one parameter, and providing the processor, for generic operations involving plural logical blocks, with second data, being part of generic formatted data and referring to the relative position, according to at least one of the object's dimensions, spatial and/or temporal, of logical blocks and/or parameters in relation to each other and/or referring to the relative scale, of logical blocks and/or parameters in relation to each other, wherein the generic formatted data provided to the processor excludes the data relative to the identification of elementary information and to the order in which the elementary information will be processed by the platform, such that the generic formatted data is independent from the processing platform used, and the generic formatted data provided is independent from data relative to the decomposition of the object into sub-objects, to form, size and overlay of the sub-objects, and to storage of elementary information in a memory, data relating to the order and data relating to the decomposition of the object into sub-objects determined by the processor.