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Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, Portland, OR (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey M. Gilbert, Cupertino, CA (US);

Ting-Kuo Lo, San Jose, CA (US);

Peifeng Wu, San Jose, CA (US);

Nishit Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 7/50 (2006.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44004 (2013.01); H04N 21/44209 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of apparatuses and methods to decrease a size of a memory in a low-latency video communication system are described. A control unit is configured to monitor a condition associated with at the communication link. The control unit is configured to receive the video content over a link based on monitoring. A memory comprising a full-frame buffer is coupled to the control unit. The full-frame buffer is configured as a history buffer to store a full frame of the video in a coding format that matches the coding format of the video content received over the link. A display unit is coupled to the history buffer. A portion of the full-frame buffer is configured as a network streaming buffer.


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