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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1991
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1990
Ichiro Tamitani, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A processor array has first through N-th processor. Each of first through (N-1)-th switching devices is connected between preceding and succeeding consecutively numbered ones of the first through the N-th processors. Each processor has at least one processor module coupled between a processor input bus and a processor output bus. A controlling unit controls the switching devices so that the input and output buses of the processor are selectively connected together. Each processor includes a feedback bus which is connected to the module. The (N-1)-th switching devices are controlled so that the feedback buses of the processor are selectively connected in series in compliance with the manner in which the processor input and output buses of the processors are connected together. The controlling unit may also control the processor modules of each processor. The processor modules of one or more processors may process partial blocks of each principal block of a digital video signal, respectively, throughout a time duration of the principal block. The control unit may put the processor modules into operation either only one in each time duration or repeatedly in a time division fashion.