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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Guy Cote, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark P. Rygh, Union City, CA (US);
Timothy John Millet, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jim C. Chou, San Jose, CA (US);
Joseph J. Cheng, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A knight's order processing method for block processing pipelines in which the next block input to the pipeline is taken from the row below and one or more columns to the left in the frame. The knight's order method may provide spacing between adjacent blocks in the pipeline to facilitate feedback of data from a downstream stage to an upstream stage. The rows of blocks in the input frame may be divided into sets of rows that constrain the knight's order method to maintain locality of neighbor block data. Invalid blocks may be input to the pipeline at the left of the first set of rows and at the right of the last set of rows, and the sets of rows may be treated as if they are horizontally arranged rather than vertically arranged, to maintain continuity of the knight's order algorithm.