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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2006
Mickey Bahar, Kfar Netter, IL;
Yoav Lavi, Raanana, IL;
Mickey Bahar, Kfar Netter, IL;
Yoav Lavi, Raanana, IL;
Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A method of compressing an image according to an image compression algorithm includes sequentially receiving pixel values into a buffers bank in line-by-line order. The image includes a plurality of pixels arranged into lines and columns. Each pixel has a pixel value associated therewith. Each line has L pixels. The image compression algorithm operates on blocks of pixels, each block having N lines and M columns. The method also includes storing each block-line of pixel values in a buffer of the buffers bank. A block-line includes M consecutive pixels of a line. The method also includes, for each block-line, storing a pointer to the buffer in which the block-line is stored and reading block-lines out of the buffers bank to a compression engine, wherein the block-lines are read out of the buffers bank in an order that is different from the line-by-line order in which the block-lines were received into the buffers bank. The method further includes compressing the image according to the image compression algorithm and displaying the image.