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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2009
Nadim Y. Abdo, Redmond, WA (US);
Voicu Anton Albu, Redmond, WA (US);
Nadim Y. Abdo, Redmond, WA (US);
Voicu Anton Albu, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for accelerating the compression of images on a multi-processor computer. In an embodiment, an image is divided into a plurality of slices, each slice having the same width as the image. These slices are provided to a work manager that maintains a thread for each processor. The work manager assigns each slice to a thread for processing in an efficient manner (such as the thread corresponding to the first available processor), and when an indication that the slice has been compressed for each slice is received, the work manager assembles the compressed image.