Image decoder and image memory overcoming various kinds of delaying factors caused by hardware specifications specific to image memory by improving storing system and reading-out system

摘要

PCT No. PCT/JP97/02995 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 27, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 27, 1998 PCT Filed Aug. 29, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/09444 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 5, 1998An image memory stores a one-screen image by dividing the one-screen image into a plurality of image blocks which are each m pixels wide by n pixels high. The image memory has an array-like storage region storing s*t first chrominance components that compose one image block and s*t second chrominance components that compose the same image block in serial areas between a start area specified by a row address and a first column address and an end area specified by the same row address and a second column address (see FIG. 10). The storage region also stores m*n luminance components that compose the same image block in serial areas between a different start area specified by a different row address and a third column address and an end area are specified by the different row address and a fourth column address.