Method and apparatus for diagonal processing of video data

An apparatus for diagonal processing of video data comprising:

• a demultiplexer receptive to a video stream and developing a plurality of separated color planes, at least one of which is a rectilinear color plane and at least one of which is a rotated color plane;
• a number of address generators associated with said plurality of color planes, wherein an address generator associated with said rotated color plane is operative to rotate said rotated color plane to a rectilinear position;
• and
• a data compressor receptive to said address generators and operative to compress said plurality of color planes with a rectilinear compression algorithm.

A method for processing of video data comprising:

• recognizing diagonally arranged data in a video stream;
• processing said diagonally arranged data into rectilinear data;
• and
• compressing said rectilinear data by a rectilinear compression algorithm.

A method for automatically creating address generators comprising:

• generating original coordinate pairs specifying the original position of each element in a sensor mosaic;
• transforming said original coordinate pairs into a sequence of adjusted coordinate pairs which are rectilinearly juxtaposed;
• and
• generating a finite state automaton that mimics the sequence of adjusted coordinate pairs.