A DECODER, AN APPLICATION PROCESSOR INCLDING THE DECODER, AND A METHOD OF OPERATING THE DECODER

摘要

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a decoder comprises: a cadence detector configured to determine whether a video stream is a pull-down stream and remove at least one duplicate frame in accordance with a determination result; and a decoding module configured to decode the video stream or an output stream of the cadence detector in a front-end or a back-end of the cadence detector. Therefore, the decoder can reduce unnecessary operations and errors.