Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kyung-Koo Lee

Jung-Sun Kang

Jin-hong Oh

Tae-Hwan Park

Jin-Hyun Cho

A video decoder may perform, based on an operation mode, at least one of a first decoding operation to restore a first bin value based on a first context value, a second decoding operation to restore a second bin value based on an updated first context value or a second context value, a third decoding operation to restore a third bin value based on the updated first context value or a third context value, and a fourth decoding operation to restore at least one bypass bin value without a context value. Based on the operation mode, the video decoder may output the first bin value, the at least one bypass bin value, the first bin value and the at least one bypass bin value, the first bin value and one of the second and third bin values, or at least one of the first, second, and third bin values.

Video decoders and electronic systems including the same

A bit stream processing device may include a virtual division memory, a stream shift buffer, a decoder circuit, and a controller. The virtual division memory may be divided into a plurality of group memory regions configured to store a plurality of stream groups in the respective group memory regions and to output a memory bit stream. The stream groups may be included in an input bit stream. The stream shift buffer is configured to receive and store the memory bit stream and output a buffer bit stream. The decoder circuit is configured to perform a decoding operation on the buffer bit stream from the stream shift buffer. The controller is configured to control operations of the virtual division memory, the stream shift buffer, and the decoder circuit.

Bit stream processing device for pipe-lined decoding and multimedia device including the same

An emulation prevention byte remover may include one or more of a first buffer, a second buffer, a checker, and a shifter. The first buffer may store first stream data. The second buffer may store second stream data. The checker may determine whether one or more emulation prevention bytes are included in the first, second, or first and second stream data. If the checker determines that the one or more emulation prevention bytes are included in the first, second, or first and second stream data, the checker may output a check signal. In response to the check signal, the shifter may remove at least one of the one or more emulation prevention bytes from the first, second, or first and second stream data. The shifter may generate output stream data based on the first, second, or first and second stream data.

Emulation prevention byte removers for video decoder

An apparatus processing a video stream includes a CPU, a memory access controller reading stream data from an external memory, a buffer storing the stream data, and a hardware accelerator decoding the stream data. The hardware accelerator includes a plurality of decoders decoding the stream data in accordance with one of a plurality of different video coding standards.

Apparatus processing video stream

According to a coefficient variable length coding method adopting four-stage pipeline, a 3-dimension value including a run, a level and a last data is obtained by performing a run length coding upon coefficient data, where, after transferring the 3-dimension value, a variable bit vector is obtained from the transferred 3-dimension value and the variable length bit vector is stored, and where, particularly in case the pipeline breaks, the method reuses the previously obtained 3-dimension value to minimize process time such that the coefficient variable length coding is swiftly performed by the efficient pipeline operation, and the broken pipeline may be restored within minimized time.

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Kyung-Koo Lee