Graphic system comprising a pipelined graphic engine, pipelining method and computer program product

摘要

A graphic system comprising a pipelined tridimensional graphic engine for generating image frames for a display inlcudes a graphic engine (110;210) comprising at least one geometric processing elaboration stages (111, 112), performing motion motion extraction. The engine also includes a rendering stage (113) generating full image frames (KF) at a first frame rate (F2) to be displayed at a second frame rate (F1), higher than the first frame rate (F2). The pipelined graphic engine further comprises a motion encoder (214) receiving motion vector information (MB) and suitable for coding the motion information e.g. with a variable length code, while generating a signal (R4) representative of interpolated frames (IF). The motion encoder (214) exploits the motion information (MB) as generated by the geometric elaboration stages (211, 212). A motion compensation stage (237) is provided fed with the signal representative of interpolated frames (IF) and full image frames for generating said the interpolated frames (IF). A preferred application is in graphic engines intended to operate in association with smart displays through a wireless connection, i.e. in mobile phones. <IMAGE>