Replacement of frame data in a video stream signal

A technology of video streaming and signal, applied in the direction of digital video signal modification, television, image communication, etc., can solve the problem of reducing the bit rate and so on

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-02-18
TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS (FAR EAST) LTD
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This document considers adding slow-moving frames and removing fast-playing frames, but does not replace frames to reduce bitrate

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[0016] figure 1 A video stream processing device is shown having an input 10 , a memory 12 , a processing circuit 14 , and a transmission interface 16 . Input 10 and processing circuitry 14 are coupled to memory 12 . The processing circuit 14 has a stream output and a control input coupled to the transmission interface 16 .

[0017] In operation, an MPEG stream is provided to the input 10 . A sliding window of data from the stream is buffered in memory 12 . Processing circuitry 14 receives information from transmission interface 16 indicating whether and / or how much bandwidth is available for transmission. Processing circuitry 14 compares the available bandwidth to a threshold bandwidth required to transmit the received stream. When the available bandwidth is above said threshold, the processing circuit 14 reads all the data from the stream from the memory 12 and causes the transmission interface 16 to transmit the data.

[0018] If the processing circuit 14 determines th...

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Provided is an apparatus and a method for replacing a video stream signal. The video stream signal represents a succession of frames, comprising a plurality of dependent frames that each provide for prediction of visual content using selectable ones of a preceding and following anchor frame that precede and follow the plurality of frames respectively. When a shortage of transmission bandwidth occurs, the apparatus generates a processed version of the video stream signal wherein a bit-rate alteration is performed starting from one of the dependent frames before an end of said plurality. Said alteration is executed by substituting a standard prediction from the following anchor frame at least for data in the video stream signal that encodes a region in said one of the dependent frames. The bit rate alteration is accompanied by a switch to a mode in which the processing circuit substitutes a standard prediction from the following anchor frame in all following dependent frames that follow said one of the dependent frames until the following anchor frame, for data in the video stream signal that encodes the region in said following dependent frames. In an embodiment interlacing is killed for the replaced regions.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to devices and methods for processing video stream signals. Background technique [0002] It is known from WO2005 / 065030 that the bit rate of an MPEG video stream signal can be reduced by replacing selected B-frames with "empty" frames, each representing an adjacent anchor frame (I frame or P frame). US5956088 describes a similar technique. Thus, a reduced quality video stream is achieved with non-zero motion vectors and residual data that requires less data than the original video stream with non-empty B-frames. In an embodiment of WO2005 / 065030 it is described how only selected parts of B-frames with low-motion are blanked, which results in higher quality video at the expense of less data simplification. [0003] It has been found that this technique can cause interference artifacts when applied to interlaced video, ie when each frame contains multiple fields. Furthermore, it has been found that this technique is dif...

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IPC IPC(8): H04N7/26H04N7/46H04N7/50
CPCH04N19/00781H04N19/00278H04N19/00751H04N19/00218H04N19/00472H04N21/658H04N21/2402H04N19/00454H04N21/6377H04N19/00127H04N21/2343H04N19/00266H04N19/00236H04N21/2662H04N19/159H04N19/176H04N19/172H04N19/61H04N19/37H04N19/132H04N19/164H04N19/587H04N19/40
Inventor 埃沃特·布兰德斯玛阿尔贝特·M·A·赖克艾尔特
Owner TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS (FAR EAST) LTD
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