TWO-DIMENSIONAL MICROPROCESSOR PIPELINES FOR IMAGE PROCESSING.

Abstract

Two-dimensional arrays of microprocessors are considered for the implementation of image processors that are formulated according to a certain state-space model. The microprocessors are totally synchronized - operating with the same clock and executing the same instructions, communicating with each other through local memory units. This allows the use of such an array as a pipeline for the processing of successive images or sections of one image, to achieve a relatively fast effective speed.