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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2009
Ming Hsieh, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Huansheng Xue, San Gabriel, CA (US);
Jing Wang, Arcadia, CA (US);
Chunyu LU, Pasadena, CA (US);
Ming Hsieh, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Huansheng Xue, San Gabriel, CA (US);
Jing Wang, Arcadia, CA (US);
Chunyu Lu, Pasadena, CA (US);
3M Cogent, Inc., Pasadena, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention is a system for organizing data flow for two dimensional digital image processing. The system includes a memory access module for accessing an external memory containing image data to be processed, and a data flow organizer module for preparing a data stream from the input image data accessed by the memory access module. The data flow organizer module predicts future data needed for processing, and the memory access module pre-fetches the predicted data from the memory. A data processing module processes the pre-fetched data from the data flow organizer module. Address generation for accessing the memory is performed independent and in parallel with processing the pre-fetched data.