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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1998
Xiaoping Hu, San Jose, CA (US);
Hungviet H. Nguyen, Fremont, CA (US);
David Sokmin Kang, San Jose, CA (US);
Chips & Technologies, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for storing a macroblock from a video data stream is disclosed. A macroblock is received, the macroblock having a plurality of blocks corresponding to a plurality of color space components and having a width defined by a plurality of pixels. According to a first aspect of the present invention, the macroblock is stored in a vertical strip format. According to a second aspect of the present invention, the contents of the plurality of blocks are interleaved. According to a third aspect of the present invention, the contents of the plurality of blocks are interleaved and the macroblock is then stored in a vertical strip format.