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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jean-Michel Moutin, Echirolles, FR;
Pierre Marty, Seyssins, FR;
Assignee:
STMicrolectronics S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ; G06F 1/200 ; G06F 1/5167 ; G06F 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ; G06F 1/200 ; G06F 1/5167 ; G06F 3/00 ;
Abstract
A circuit includes a microprocessor, an MPEG decoder for decoding an image sequence, and a memory common to the microprocessor and to the decoder. The circuit also includes a circuit for evaluating a decoder delay, a control circuit for, if the decoder delay is greater than a predetermined level, granting the decoder a memory access priority, and otherwise, granting the microprocessor the memory access priority.