Freescale Semiconductor,inc.

Oskar Pelc

Ricardo Martinez Perez

Michael Zarubinsky

Mieu Van Vu

David Young

Eyal Segev

Roy Kehat

Eran Barnea

A method, a system and a computer program product for generating a blended picture, the system includes: a storage unit, adapted to store pixels of a first picture, pixels of a second picture and alpha data; and a device, coupled to the storage unit via at least one data channel; wherein the device includes: a relevancy determination module, that is adapted to determine a relevancy of pixels of at least one of the first picture and the second picture based upon values of alpha data associated with the pixels of the first picture; wherein the alpha data represents a degree of transparency of the pixels of the first picture to be overlaid over the second picture; an access controller, coupled to the relevancy determination module, adapted to prevent a transfer of irrelevant pixels from the storage unit; and a blending unit that is coupled to the access controller, adapted to provide a blended picture in response to values of the alpha data, by blending relevant pixels of the first and second picture.

System and method for providing a blended picture

A system and method for filtering a frame, the method includes: (i) processing, by a processing unit executing instructions, at least one portion of a frame to provide at least one processed frame portion; (ii) performing, by a hardware filter, deblocking filtering of the at least one processed frame portion to provide at least one filtered frame portion; and (ii) storing the at least one filtered frame portion in a memory unit that is accessible by the processing unit; whereas the stage of processing is responsive to previously filtered frame portions. The system includes: (i) a processing unit, adapted to execute instructions such as to process at least one portion of a frame to provide at least one processed frame portion; (ii) a hardware filter, connected to the processing unit, adapted to deblocking filter the at least one processed frame portion to provide at least one filtered frame portion; and (iii) a memory unit, connected to the processing unit, adapted to store the at least one filtered frame portion; whereas the processing unit is adapted to process the at least one portion in response to previously filtered frame portions.

Method and system for performing deblocking filtering

A processing system that interacts with external devices has a processor, a memory, and a controller. The memory stores templates that provide access protocol information about the external devices. When an external device is to be accessed, the operating system, which is stored in the memory, instructs the processor to perform the access to the external device. The processor puts the information about the external device on the address portion of the system bus where it is received and interpreted by the controller. The controller in turn retrieves the template for the external device as indicated by the information that was received. After retrieving the template, the controller outputs the information, in the manner indicated by the template, on an external interface bus where the external device is also coupled. The external device then responds according to the information that the controller put on the external interface bus.

Method and system for direct access to a non-memory mapped device memory

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