Eastman-kodak Company

Lionel J D'luna

Joseph Ward

Thomas N Berarducci

William A Cook

A resampling application specific integrated circuit (RSA) supports image interpolation or decimation by any arbitrary factor in order to provide flexibility, and utilizes a neighborhood of up to 9.times.9 pixels to produce image data of high quality. The RSA contains a separate vertical and horizontal filter units for vertical resizing and horizontal resizing operations, vertical and horizontal position accumulator units, a configuration register unit for loading the vertical and horizontal position accumulator units, and a memory management unit to interface the RSA to external memory banks. The vertical and horizontal filter units contain nine multipliers and nine corresponding coefficient memories, with each memory preferably containing storage space for thirty-two coefficients. The coefficients are addressed on a pixel by pixel basis in response to the outputs of the vertical and horizontal position accumulator units. The RSA is designed to handle an input data stream that contains multiple color components and simultaneously resizes all of the color components.

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Lionel J D'luna