Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wavefront order to scan order synchronization
- Patent Title (中): Wavefront顺序扫描订单同步
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Application No.: US14039859Application Date: 2013-09-27
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Publication No.: US09224187B2Publication Date: 2015-12-29
- Inventor: Guy Cote , Jim C. Chou , Timothy John Millet , Manching Ko , Weichun Ku
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Robert C. Kowert
- Main IPC: G06T1/20
- IPC: G06T1/20 ; G06F13/00 ; G06T1/60

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150091927A1 WAVEFRONT ORDER TO SCAN ORDER SYNCHRONIZATION Public/Granted day:2015-04-02
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