Patent ID: 7974480

Claim:
A digital image processing system, comprising: an image signal processing unit adapted to process image data, wherein said image data is partitioned into regions when said image data is transferred by slices into at least one fixed-size line buffer of said image signal processing unit, and wherein each of said slices represents a fixed number of pixels of said image data; a first storage unit adapted to store image data for processing by said Image Signal Processing unit; and an encoding component adapted to encode said image data stored in said first storage unit, said encoding component being adapted to insert restart markers into said image data during processing of said slices to allow stitching together of said slices having said encoded image data, wherein said restart markers identify the end of each of said slices, point to the next in-sequence of said slices, contain padding bits to ensure that each of said slices ends on a byte boundary, and are inserted into an image data bitstream at every fixed-number minimum coding unit interval.