for the resized image in one embodiment the display pipe 208 can be a fifo buffer connected to the display pipe 208 is a display interface 210 the display interface 210 can be used to manipulate pixel data from the display pipe 208 so it can be properly formatted for a display device 212 in some embodiments the display device 212 can integrated into the device such as displays for mobile phones portable video game systems and smartphones in other embodiments the display device 212 can be external to the device requiring an external connection such as a discrete computer monitor fig3 is a high level schematic illustrating elements within the resizer module 206 in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention as shown in fig3 data processed by the resizer 206 first pass through a vertical accumulator 300 and then a horizontal accumulator 302 before being stored in a memory 304 note that in other embodiments data can be processed by the horizontal accumulator passed to the vertical accumulator and then stored in a memory alternatively other permutations are possible where a separate memory is maintained for each accumulator fig4 a 4d illustrate changes in horizontal pixel spacing calculated using the horizontal accumulator of the center based resizer to display new pixels n 0 n 7 from original pixels o.