US Patent 8482573 Apparatus and method for processing data

Incoming video data is processed. According to an example embodiment, video data as presented in rows of pixels is stored in terms of blocks of pixels of corresponding images making up the video. When a particular pixel is read from memory, the block of pixels is retrieved (e.g., with a single read), facilitating (simultaneous) access to pixels in adjacent rows or columns, without necessarily accessing entire rows and columns to do so.