Patent ID: 7190368

Claim:
An apparatus for storing image data comprising: a first storage device comprising a plurality of first banks and configured to store at least one first pixel from a first field of a frame of said image data at a first physical address in said first storage device; and a second storage device comprising a plurality of second banks and configured to store a second pixel from a second field of said frame of said image data at a second physical address in said second storage device, wherein (i) said first field comprises even lines of said frame, (ii) said second field comprises odd lines of said frame, (iii) said first and second physical addresses have the same relative position in an address space of the respective storage devices, (iv) said first storage device and said second storage device are connected in parallel and (v) said apparatus has a first mode characterized by said first storage device and said second storage device storing data in response to a common address and a second mode characterized by said first storage device and said second storage device storing data in response to a first address and a second address, respectively, wherein said first address has one or more bits that are complements of said second address.