MEMORY ORGANIZATIONAL SCHEME AND CONTROLLER ARCHITECTURE FOR IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING

摘要

This disclosure describes an organizational scheme for memory that is useful for image processing. A memory controller architecture is also described, which takes advantage of the organizational scheme. The organizational scheme and controller architecture is particularly useful for high performance, high quality image processing of images that form a video sequence, but may also be applied in other image processing settings. The described techniques and organizational structure of the memory also allows the memory to be shared for other storage applications of a video device.