Texas Instruments Corporation

Jonathan Andrew Lucas

Jeffrey Matthew Kempf

Jeffrey Scott Farris

Aravind Lakshminarayanan

In some examples, a method includes serializing, via a processor, image data for a first image to form serialized data mapped to RBG pixels of a second image, the image data in a format other than a RGB pixel format. The method also includes transmitting, by the processor, the serialized data via RGB signaling lines.

Compressed chip to chip transmission

A system includes a memory and a display. The system also includes a processor coupled to the memory and to the display. The processor is configured to obtain an image and determine a parent cluster of pixels of an image having a centroid. The processor is also configured to split the parent cluster into at least a first child cluster and a second child cluster and assign a pixel of the image to the first child cluster. Additionally, the pixel is configured to update a centroid of the first child cluster responsive to the pixel and replace the pixel in the image with the centroid of the first child cluster to produce a compressed image. Also, the processor is configured to store the compressed image in the memory, where the display is configured to display the compressed image.

Parent-child cluster compression

A controller includes a frame memory configured to store an image frame, a frame memory controller coupled to the frame memory and configured to obtain image data from the image frame. The image data is associated with a color component of the image frame. The controller also includes a dither noise mask generator configured to provide dither noise masks according to dither noise levels for the image data, and a bit plane generator coupled to the frame memory controller and the dither noise mask generator and configured to generate bit planes based on the dither noise masks for the image data.

Bit plane dithering apparatus

A device includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The at least one processor is configured to obtain an image and determine a parent cluster of pixels of an image having a centroid. The at least one processor is also configured to split the parent cluster into at least a first child cluster and a second child cluster and assign a pixel of the image to the first child cluster. Additionally, the at least one processor is configured to update a centroid of the first child cluster based at least in part on the pixel, replace the pixel in the image with the centroid of the first child cluster to produce a compressed image, and store the compressed image in the memory.

A method to compress an image includes assigning each pixel of the image to a cluster based on a red-green-blue (RGB) location of the pixel. The method also includes updating a centroid of the cluster after each pixel is assigned, based at least in part on the RGB location of the pixel, where the centroid is an RGB location. The method includes replacing each pixel in the image with an RGB value of the centroid of the cluster to which the pixel is assigned. The method also includes instructing a display to display a compressed image where, in the compressed image, each pixel in the image is replaced with the RGB value of the centroid of the cluster to which the pixel is assigned.

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