High resolution image storage whereby image is divided and stored as plural groups of horizontally and vertically interleavable data
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1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a memory for storing digital data representing at least one entire image frame, the memory comprising a plurality of storage units each for storing a data group defining a respective interleavable reduced resolution representation of substantially the entire image frame;
a manipulation frame store for storing during processing data representing substantially the entire image frame;
an interface for controlling data transfer between the memory and the manipulation frame store, the interface dividing the image frame data into said data groups when the data is transferred to the memory and interleaving groups of data from the storage units when the data is transferred from the memory;
a processor for processing data in the manipulation frame store to create manipulated data representing a manipulated version of substantially the entire image frame; and
a display store connected to receive from the processor data representing said manipulated version of the image for display.
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Abstract
The system comprises a memory formed of several disk stores for storing data representing at least one image and a working framestore for temporarily storing one or two frames of image data. Data in the framestore is modified by a processor under operator control. Data is stored in the disk stores by switching selected pixels from each line and selected lines from the or each frame, by way of switches and buffers, to respective disk stores such that the image data is divided into groups which each define a lower resolution version of the whole image frame.
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1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
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a memory for storing digital data representing at least one entire image frame, the memory comprising a plurality of storage units each for storing a data group defining a respective interleavable reduced resolution representation of substantially the entire image frame; a manipulation frame store for storing during processing data representing substantially the entire image frame; an interface for controlling data transfer between the memory and the manipulation frame store, the interface dividing the image frame data into said data groups when the data is transferred to the memory and interleaving groups of data from the storage units when the data is transferred from the memory; a processor for processing data in the manipulation frame store to create manipulated data representing a manipulated version of substantially the entire image frame; and a display store connected to receive from the processor data representing said manipulated version of the image for display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An image processing method comprising:
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storing in a memory digital data representing at least one entire image frame as a plurality of data groups each defining a respective interleavable reduced resolution representation of substantially the entire image frame; storing in a manipulation frame store data representing substantially the entire image frame in a manipulation frame store; transferring data between the memory and the manipulation frame store by dividing the image frame data into said data groups when the data is transferred to the memory and interleaving groups of data from the memory when the data is transferred from the memory; processing data in the manipulation frame store to create manipulated data representing a manipulated version of substantially the entire image frame; and
transferring to a display store processed data presenting said manipulated version of the image for display. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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