Low-decoding-latency buffer compression for graphics processing units

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 250-263

  Chien, Shao Yi ^a   Lok, Ka Hang ^b   Lu, Yen Chang ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MEDIATEK INC   (Taiwan)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer compression; mobile graphics; texture compression

Indexed keywords

BIT STREAM; COMPRESSION METHODS; DATA DEPENDENCIES; DESIGN FACTORS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE GRAPHICS; PARALLEL DECODING; POWER DRAW; SPATIAL PREDICTION; STATE-OF-ART TECHNOLOGY; TEXTURE COMPRESSION;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TEXTURES;

DECODING;

EID: 84859096481     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2011.2173476     Document Type: Article

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