A storage system comprising storage including a plurality of storage banks and a storage controller to control writing of received pixel data to the storage banks in a distribution pattern. The distribution pattern includes pattern sections, each of which corresponds to pixels from a row of input pixels, and pattern blocks, each of which corresponds to pixels from a plurality of adjacent rows and columns of the input pixels. Pixel data in a pattern section and a pattern block are each written to different ones of the storage banks. The pattern section includes a first section part, which overlaps the pattern block and a second section part, which does not overlap the pattern block. Pixel data of the first section part is written to a first set of storage banks and pixel data of the second section part is written to a second, different, set of storage banks.