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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Guy Cote, San Jose, CA (US);
Jim C. Chou, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy John Millet, Mountain View, CA (US);
Manching Ko, Campbell, CA (US);
Weichun Ku, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Blocks of pixels from a video frame may be encoded in a block processing pipeline using wavefront ordering, e.g. according to knight's order. Each of the encoded blocks may be written to a particular one of multiple buffers such that the blocks written to each of the buffers represent consecutive blocks of the frame in scan order. Stitching information may be written to the buffers at the end of each row. A stitcher may read the rows from the buffers in order and generate a scan order output stream for the frame. The stitcher component may read the stitching information at the end of each row and apply the stitching information to one or more blocks at the beginning of a next row to stitch the next row to the previous row. Stitching may involve modifying pixel(s) of the blocks and/or modifying metadata for the blocks.