System and method for USB compatible I-Frame only MPEG image compression

摘要

A system and method for image or video compression for an imaging device are disclosed herein. The image or video compression comprises a MPEG I-frame codec. The MPEG I-frame codecs are implemented within a single integrated circuit chip with an imaging array. Further, a USB controller is included in the same integrated circuit chip to package the compressed I-frames into a USB compliant data stream. Further, in other embodiments, an imaging array is included in the same integrated circuit die with the USB controller and MPEG I-frame codec.