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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2001
Jean-michel Moutin, Echirolles, FR;
Jean-Michel Moutin, Echirolles, FR;
STMicroelectronics S.A., Gentilly, FR;
Abstract
A circuit for controlling an MPEG decoder rated by a signal of given period likely to decode several coded images, receiving at each period beginning an order to decode several images of a first or of a second type, the images of the second type being decodable at any instant of the period following their decoding order, and the images of the first type being decodable at any instant of the two periods following their decoding order, including a priority assignment circuit for, at each period, granting among these images the decoding priority, if there are any, to the images of the first type that still have not been decoded one period after their decoding order and otherwise, if there are any, to the images of the second type.