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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1996
Hemant Bheda, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ygal Arbel, Belmont, CA (US);
Partha Srinivasan, Fremont, CA (US);
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, US;
Abstract
A novel method and apparatus for decoding a compressed audio/video signal to produce decoded audio and decoded video signals. The decoding tasks are partitioned into 'pre-processing tasks' and 'post-processing tasks.' Pre-processing tasks involve one or more non-signal processing oriented operations which do not require extensive computing resources. Pre-processing tasks are assigned to be executed by the host processor, which can perform these tasks without straining it computational resources. Pre-processing tasks include demultiplexing the compressed audio/video stream into compressed audio and compressed video streams, performing audio pre-processing on the compressed audio stream and performing video pre-processing on the compressed video stream. Post-processing tasks involve one or more signal processing oriented operations which require extensive computing resources. Pre-processing tasks are assigned to be executed by a dedicated subprocessor. Post-processing tasks include audio post-processing and video post-processing. In an embodiment, video frame tasks are also performed as part of video post-processing. Post-processing performed by the dedicated subprocessor outputs a decoded audio signal and a decoded video signal.