ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,076, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Video frame codec architectures" was invented by Aki Oskari Kuusela (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ville-Mikko Rautio (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses are described for video frame codec architectures. A frame decompressor decompresses compressed frames to produce decompressed frames. A frame decompressor controller arbitrates shared access to the frame decompressor. Multiple cores of an SoC request to receive a decompressed frame from the frame decompressor via the frame decompressor controller. The frame decompressor cont...