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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 29, 1996
Akihiro Watabe, Nara, JP;
Eiji Miyagoshi, Osaka, JP;
Yoshiyuki Goi, Osaka, JP;
William Brent Wilson, Singapore, SG;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention discloses an MPEG decoder for reproducing moving picture data. A first frame memory (FM0) and a second frame memory (FM1), each of which is composed of 2N slots, are provided. A third frame memory (FM2) is provided which is composed of N+4 slots. Each slot is provided with a memory capacity of eight lines. FM0 and FM1 each have a 1-frame memory capacity for storing reference frames for motion compensation. FM2, on the other hand, has a memory capacity of half a frame+32 lines for B-PICTURE interlace conversion. A slot control memory (SM) is further provided which is composed of 2N+6 words each of which stores a respective slot number of FM2. For an output section to read the slots of FM2 in the correct order, the contents of SM are updated by an control section at the time of the writing of FM2 by a decoding section.