Intel Corporation

William W Macy, Jr

Eric L Debes

Huy Van Nguyen

Yen-Kuang Chen

Matthew J Holliman

Julien Sebot

Minerva M Yeung

Patrice L Roussel

Jonathan Jay Tyler

Oleg B Rashkovskiy

Igor V Kozintsev

Ajaya V Durg

Minerva Ming-Yee Yeung

Bret L Toll

Millind Mittal

Hong Jiang

Benny Eitan

Per H Hammarlund

Alexander D Peleg

Scott Dion Rodgers

Larry M Mennemeier

Carole Dulong

Boon-Lock Yeo

Herbert H Hum

Eiichi Kowashi

Mark J Buxton

Frank Binns

Thomas R Huff

James S Coke

Wolf C Witt

Peter J Ruscito

Eric Li

David B Jackson

Masood Tahir

Robert G Liu

Minerva M Young

Vesselin Naydenov

Method, apparatus, and program means for performing bitstream buffer manipulation with a SIMD merge instruction. The method of one embodiment comprises determining whether any unprocessed data bits for a partial variable length symbol exist in a first data block is made. A shift merge operation is performed to merge the unprocessed data bits from the first data block with a second data block. A merged data block is formed. A merged variable length symbol comprised of the unprocessed data bits and a plurality of data bits from the second data block is extracted from the merged data block.

Processor to execute shift right merge instructions

Method, apparatus, and program means for nonlinear filtering and deblocking applications utilizing SIMD sign and absolute value operations. The method of one embodiment comprises receiving first data for a first block and second data for a second block. The first data and said second data are comprised of a plurality of rows and columns of pixel data. A block boundary between the first block and the second block is characterized. A correction factor for a deblocking algorithm is calculated with a first instruction for a sign operation that multiplies and with a second instruction for an absolute value operation. Data for pixels located along said block boundary between the first and second block are corrected.

SIMD sign operation

Method, apparatus, and program means for shuffling data. The method of one embodiment comprises receiving a first operand having a set of L data elements and a second operand having a set of L control elements. For each control element, data from a first operand data element designated by the individual control element is shuffled to an associated resultant data element position if its flush to zero field is not set and a zero is placed into the associated resultant data element position if its flush to zero field is not set.

Method and apparatus for shuffling data

Bitstream buffer manipulation with a SIMD merge instruction

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

William W Macy, Jr