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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2003
Hiroto Tomita, Kasuya-Gun, JP;
Masahiro Ohashi, Kasuya-Gun, JP;
Hiroto Tomita, Kasuya-Gun, JP;
Masahiro Ohashi, Kasuya-Gun, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In a four-by-four orthogonal transform mode, an input data buffer enters a first half of entered eight pieces of pixel data, i.e., 'x0A', 'x1A', “x2A”, and “x3A”, into each of the first to fourth multiply-and-accumulation (MAC) operation circuits, while feeding a second half of the entered eight pieces of pixel data, i.e., “x0B”, “x1B”, “x2B”, and “x3B”, into each of the fifth to eighth MAC operation circuits. In an eight-by-eight orthogonal transform mode, the input data buffer feeds entered eight pieces of pixel data into each of the first to eighth MAC operation circuits. Since the input data buffer receives the eight pieces of pixel data in each of the four-by-four and eight-by-eight orthogonal transform modes, an orthogonal transform circuit is activated once in each of the four-by-four and eight-by-eight orthogonal transform modes. In both of the four-by-four and eight-by-eight orthogonal transform modes, the same first to eighth MAC operation circuits are used to produce the orthogonal transform coefficient data. This feature inhibits an increase in hardware area.