Patent ID: 8379730

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a video object plane (VOP) at an image processing device; decoding the received VOP to generate a decoded VOP; determining whether a memory of the image processing device that is storing one or more VOPs has available capacity to store the decoded VOP; when the memory does not have the available capacity to store the decoded VOP and the decoded VOP is a predictive coded VOP (P-VOP): discarding a previously received P-VOP when an order number of the previously received P-VOP is stored at a P-VOP queue; and storing an order number of the decoded VOP at the P-VOP queue; when the memory does have the available capacity to store the decoded VOP and the decoded VOP is a P-VOP, storing the order number of the decoded VOP at the P-VOP queue in the memory of the image processing device; and when the memory does have the available capacity to store the decoded VOP and the decoded VOP is not a P-VOP, storing the order number of the decoded VOP at a first available location of a display ordered read queue in the memory of the image processing device.