Ati Technologies Ulc

Benedict Chien

Lei Zhang

Khaled Mammou

Edward A Harold

Ihab M A Amer

Gabor Sines

Syed Athar Hussain

Ying Luo

Ping Chen

Kathirkamanathan Nadarajah

Zhiqi Hao

Stephen A J Bagshaw

Naveed A Gazi

Li Baochun

John-Paul A Compagnone

Gerald S C Chan

Ihab MA Amer

John-Paul Compagnone

Gerald Sc Chan

A platform security processor is booted and reads a set of write-once memory bits to obtain a minimum security patch level (SPL). The security processor then verifies that a table SPL for a firmware security table is greater than or equal to the minimum SPL. The firmware security table includes a plurality of firmware identifiers for firmware code modules, and a plurality of check SPL values each associated with respective one of the firmware identifiers. The security processor verifies SPL values in a plurality of firmware code modules by, for each firmware code module, accessing the module to obtain its firmware SPL value and check if the respective firmware SPL value is equal to or greater than a respective check SPL value in the firmware security table.

Firmware anti-rollback

An apparatus and methods for controlling power consumption in video encoding obtain, before motion estimation is performed on an image frame to be encoded, information regarding an amount of the image frame to be encoded that is static with respect to a previously encoded image frame. The apparatus and methods adjust power consumption of the video encoder based on the obtained information regarding the amount of the image frame to be encoded that is static.

Controlling power consumption in video encoding based on information regarding static amount of an image frame

Disclosed is a low-complexity and yet efficient lossy method to compress distortion information for motion estimation, resulting in significant reduction in needed storage capacity. A system for implementing the method and a computer-readable medium for storing the method are also disclosed. The method includes determining and storing a distortion value for each trial motion vector in a plurality of trial motion vectors. Each trial motion vector specifies a position of a search region relative to a reference frame. The method further includes compressing each of the distortion values as a fixed number of bits based upon a minimum distortion value amongst the stored distortion values, and re-storing each compressed distortion value in place of its uncompressed value.

Efficient low-complexity video compression

A method and apparatus are described for processing video data. In one embodiment, a processor is provided with a video compression engine (VCE) that has a memory having a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of addresses. Video data, (luma data or chroma data), is written in row (i.e., raster) order into the addresses of the memory, and then the data is read out of the addresses in column order. Data is written into the addresses of the columns of the memory as they are read out, which is subsequently read out in row order. This process of switching back and forth between reading and writing data in row and column order continues as the data is read and processed by an encoder to generate a compressed video stream.

Method and apparatus for writing video data in raster order and reading video data in macroblock order

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Benedict Chien