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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1998
ATI Technologies, Inc., Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for decoding a stream of data blocks begins by determining an encoding type of a received data block of the stream of data blocks. When the encoding type of the received data block is of a first encoding type, portions of a reference data block are transferred from non-local memory to a reference section of local memory. As the portions of the reference block are transferred, a first section of local memory is utilized to decode the received data block based on the portions of the reference data block contained in the reference section and a relational data decoding convention. The resulting decoded data block is transferred from the first section of local memory to a second section of local memory.