Patent ID: 6996174

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising: a computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means therein for allocating a frame buffer for a digital video decoding system having video scaling capabilities, said computer readable program code means in said computer program product comprising: computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect partitioning the frame buffer into multiple memory areas for receiving I, P & B frames of a decoded stream of video data, said computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect partitioning comprising: (i) computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect defining a first area and a second area for receiving full size I and P frames of said decoded stream of video data, and (ii) computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect defining at least one third area for receiving scaled I, P & B frames of said decoded stream of video data commensurate with said first area and said second area receiving the full size I and P frames.