Data processing apparatus and image processing apparatus

• US 8,904,069 B2
• Filed: 10/28/2011
• Issued: 12/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Tanaka, Yoshinobu, Nakazono, Keisuke, Ueno, Akira, Furukawa, Hideaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsai, Henry
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hassan, Aurangzeb
• Application Number:
  US13/284,571
• Publication Number:
  US 20120110224A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,131 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 710/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 5/06 for changing the speed of data flow, i.e. speed regularising or timing, e.g. delay lines, FIFO buffers; over- or underrun control therefor G06F7/78 takes precedence

Abstract

A data processing apparatus may include a buffer unit, a data write control unit, a data read control unit, and a buffer area determination unit. The data write control unit may write the input data to the storage area determined by the buffer area determination unit, and output a data write completion signal indicating that the writing of the data is completed when the writing of the input data is completed. The data read control unit may read the data from the storage area determined by the buffer area determination unit, and output a data read completion signal indicating that the reading of the data is completed when the output of the output data generated based on the read data is completed.

Claims

1. An image data processing apparatus that divides image data of one frame into a plurality of block units and sequentially process the divided image data, comprising:

a sequencer that controls an image processing sequence;

a buffer unit that stores one or more of the block units of the image data;

a data write control unit that writes one or more of the block units of the image data to the buffer unit;

a data read control unit that reads one or more of the block units of the image data stored in the buffer unit, the data read control unit outputting one or more of the block units of the image data-generated based on the reading of one or more of the block units of the image data;

a buffer area determination unit that determinates a storage area within the buffer unit to which the data write control unit writes one or more of the block units of the image data and a storage area within the buffer unit from which the data read control unit reads one or more of the block units of the image data,

wherein the data write control unit writes one of the block units of the image data to the storage area determined by the buffer area determination unit, and outputs an image data write completion signal indicating that the writing of one of the block units of the image data is completed to the sequencer when the writing of one of the block units of the image data is completed,

the data read control unit reads one of the block units of the image data from the storage area determined by the buffer area determination unit, and outputs an image data read completion signal indicating that the reading of one of the block units of the image data is completed to the sequencer when the output of one of the block units of the image data generated based on the reading of one of the block units of image data is completed, and

the sequencer gives a write start command for allowing the data write control unit to start processing of the next block unit to the data write control unit in response to the image data write completion signal before receiving the image data read completion signal from the data read control unit.

2. The image data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the data write control unit writes the input image data to a writable area within the buffer unit determined by the buffer area determination unit, and determines that the writing of the image data is completed when writing of a preset number of the input image data to the buffer unit is completed,

the data read control unit reads the image data from a readable area within the buffer unit determined by the buffer area determination unit, completes reading of a preset number of the output image data from the buffer unit, and determines that the reading of the image data is completed when the output of the output image data generated based on the read image data is completed, and

the buffer area determination unit changes the writable area and the readable area within the buffer unit according to a write state of the input image data by the data write control unit and a read state of the image data by the data read control unit.

3. The image data processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the buffer area determination unit determines the storage area within the buffer unit to which the image data is written by the data write control unit as the readable area in which valid image data is stored and from which the stored image data is readable, and

the buffer area determination unit determines the storage area within the buffer unit from which the image data is read by the data read control unit as the writable area having an empty area and to which the input image data is writable.

4. The image data processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the data read control unit comprises a filtering unit that generates output image data filtered based on the read image data, and

a storage capacity of the storage area within the buffer unit is determined based on the necessary number of image data when the filtering unit performs a filtering operation.

5. The image data processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the storage capacity is a capacity capable of storing the input image data of which the number is twice the necessary number of image data when the filtering unit performs the filtering operation.

6. An image data processing apparatus that divides image data of one frame into a plurality of block units and sequentially processes the divided data, comprising:

a sequencer that controls an image processing sequence;

a buffer unit that stores one or more of the block units of the image data;

a data write control unit that writes one or more of the block units of the input image data to the buffer unit;

a data read control unit that reads one or more of the block units of the image data stored in the buffer unit, the data read control unit outputting output data generated based on the reading of one or more of the block units of the image data; and

a buffer area determination unit that determines a storage area within the buffer unit to which the data write control unit writes one or more of the block units of the image data and a storage area within the buffer unit from which the data read control unit reads one or more of the block units of the image data, and wherein

the data write control unit writes one of the block units of the image data to the storage area determined by the buffer area determination unit, and outputs an image data write completion signal indicating that the writing of one of the block units of the image data is completed to the sequencer when the writing of one of the block units of the input image data is completed,

the data read control unit reads one of the block units of the image data from the storage area determined by the buffer area determination unit, and outputs an image data read completion signal indicating that the reading of one of the block units of the image data is completed to the sequencer when the output of one of the block units of the image data generated based on the reading of one of the block units of image data is completed,

the data write control unit performs settings related to writing of one of the block units of the image data after the image data write completion signal is output,

the data read control unit performs settings related to reading of one of the block units of the image data after the image data read completion signal is output; and

an adjustment unit that sends buffer empty amount information to the data write control unit, and valid data amount information to the data read control unit,

the sequencer gives a write start command for allowing the data write control unit to start processing of the next block unit to the data write control unit in response to the image data write completion signal before receiving the image data read completion signal from the data read control unit.