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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Craig M. Okruhlica, San Jose, CA (US);
Guy Cote, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A block processing pipeline in which blocks are input to and processed according to row groups so that adjacent blocks on a row are not concurrently at adjacent stages of the pipeline. A stage of the pipeline may process a current block according to neighbor pixels from one or more neighbor blocks. Since adjacent blocks are not concurrently at adjacent stages, the left neighbor of the current block is at least two stages downstream from the stage. Thus, processed pixels from the left neighbor can be passed back to the stage for use in processing the current block without the need to wait for the left neighbor to complete processing at a next stage of the pipeline. In addition, the neighbor blocks may include blocks from the row above the current block. Information from these neighbor blocks may be passed to the stage from an upstream stage of the pipeline.