202 results about "Slow motion" patented technology

A media server in the home entertainment network allows a media rendering devices to act as a digital media receiver. The media server enables trick mode functions such as scan forward or reverse, slow motion, pause, and seek on rendering devices with capabilities limited to 1× playback. The media server receives commands from user input at the rendering device transmitted over the network to the media server. The media server manipulates the media stream before the transmission over the network by deleting or adding frames to the media stream as necessary to emulate the desired playback functions and replacing frame timestamps to create a media stream that appears to the media rendering device as a sequential 1× stream. The transmitted media stream may not contain all of the media content stored in the corresponding media file on the media server, thus avoiding limitations on the download bandwidth and local client storage.

Vehicle event data playback systems have been devised and invented to provide authorized users means for advanced visual review. Detailed circumstances relating to vehicle operation are visually presented in these unique playback systems. In particular, a group of cooperating visual display devices operate in conjunction with each other to effect a detailed visual presentation of a vehicle's operational states. An interested party is afforded a high level of access to many data types in highly graphical and intuitive arrangements. Further, data replay access is enhanced by slow motion, fast forward, loop repeat, among others which have never before been associated with these data types nor with the compound visual presentations first taught in the accompanying disclosure.

A method and apparatus for dynamic quality adjustment based on changing streaming constraints is provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, a video stream is sent to a client according to a set of streaming constraints. At least a subset of the video information in the video stream is sent from a first source. Next, a signal is received indicating a relaxation of streaming constraints corresponding to the video stream. In one embodiment, the signal is a freeze frame signal. In another embodiment, the signal is a slow motion signal. In response to the signal, a set of improved quality video information from a second source is accessed and sent to the client. According to one embodiment, the set of improved quality video information comprises a still image. According to another embodiment, the set of improved quality video information comprises a set of preprocessed video information ready to be streamed. As a result of the techniques described herein, an improved quality visual image is available for presentation on the client and, consequently, when a viewer requests a presentation rate that reduces the streaming constraints on a video streaming service, the improved quality video information may be sent using the freed-up portion of the bandwidth previously allocated to the client.

The present application relates to tracking a position of a device, e.g. for detecting slow and rapid earth deformation, by making use of a recursive filter having the filter characteristic adapted to a detected type of motion. If the motion of the position tracking device is rapid, the filter characteristic is set such that the rapid motion can be tracked with the necessary speed. On the other hand, if the motion is slow, e.g. during times of a normal tectonic drift, the filter characteristic is set such that the motion is slowly tracked with the advantage of efficient noise reduction, i.e. noise in the input signal is effectively barred and does not pass through the filter to the output signal. Thus, in times of rapid motion the convergence speed of the filter output signal to the input signal is set high for fast convergence and in times of slow motion the convergence speed of the filter output signal to the input signal is set low for a slow convergence. The filter may be a Kalman filter.

MPEG coded video data includes groups of pictures (GOPs). Each group of pictures includes one or more I-frames and a plurality of B- or P-frames. To produce an MPEG slow-forward coded video stream, the coding type of each frame in the MPEG coded video data is identified, and freeze frames are inserted as a predefined function of the identified coding type and as a predefined function of a desired slow down factor. In a preferred implementation, for a slow-down factor of n, for each original I- or P-frame, (n−1) backward-predicted freeze frames are inserted, and for each original B-frame, (n−1) copies of the original B-frames are added, and a selected amount of padding is added to each copy of each original B-frame in order to obtain a normal play bit rate and avoid video buffer overflow or underflow.

An automatic control device and method for an adaptive display speed of a motion video is disclosed. The present invention is capable of adaptively controlling acceleration and speed change of a motion video according to the variation rate of the motion video within the interval of fast forward or slow motion modes.

A process whereby scrambled data of the stream are, in parallel with their recording (6), descrambled (2, 3) so as to extract (4) therefrom additional data corresponding to information required by at least one function of the special mode or “trick mode” (fast forward, fast rewind, accelerated motion, slow motion, etc.). These additional data are also recorded (6) on the recording medium. Applications relate most particularly to recordings on hard disk or DVD.

Vehicle event data playback systems have been devised and invented to provide authorized users means for advanced visual review. Detailed circumstances relating to vehicle operation are visually presented in these unique playback systems. In particular, a group of cooperating visual display devices operate in conjunction with each other to effect a detailed visual presentation of a vehicle's operational states. An interested party is afforded a high level of access to many data types in highly graphical and intuitive arrangements. Further, data replay access is enhanced by slow motion, fast forward, loop repeat, among others which have never before been associated with these data types nor with the compound visual presentations first taught in the accompanying disclosure.

A method of determining the boundary of a slow motion replay of an event in a video includes determining a statistical measure of different portions of the video. The video may include the event and the slow motion replay of the event. Based upon the statistical measure determining the boundary of the slow motion replay of the event.

The present invention relates to an image reproducing apparatus, an image reproducing method, an image capturing apparatus, and a control method therefor. In the present invention, in order to reproduce an image signal of a captured image that is generated by performing image capture at an image rate higher than a preset image rate, an image signal to be reproduced is supplied to a signal processing unit that converts an image signal into the preset image rate, and the image rate of this image signal to be reproduced is controlled on the basis of reproduction control information generated using a motion detection result of the captured image to reduce the reproduction speed of the captured image in accordance with an increase in motion detected. An image signal of a slow motion reproduction image is output.

The invention discloses a method based on audio / video combination for detecting highlight events in a football video. The method comprises the following steps: (1) decoding a compressed video of a football match to acquire video streaming; (2) segmenting the shots of the video streaming; (3) detecting logo shots according to the result of shot segmentation, and further detecting slow motions on the basis of the logo; (4) carrying out the audio extraction from the video streaming to acquire audio streaming, splitting the audio streaming into audio segments, and then, classifying each audio segment by view vectors extracted from each audio segment; and (5) detecting the highlight events by combining the slow motions according to the classification results of the audio segments and the temporal correspondence between the video streaming and the audio streaming. By effectively combining audio information with visual information, the invention not only detects abundant highlight events, butalso has the advantages of high accuracy, high speed and low splitting rate.

A detector is supported adjacent the seed cells within a seed meter housing and provides an indication of the presence or absence of seeds in the cells. A processor receives the seed presence indications and provides an operator readout to facilitate adjustments to the seed meter system to maintain a single seed per seed cell at the given seed population. In one embodiment, the detector is a video camera and the readout includes a slow motion rendering of the seed cells downstream of a seed singulator. In another embodiment, a light source is located on one side of the seed cells, and a light detector is located on the opposite side of the seed cell to determine presence or absence of material in the cell.

A method and system for visualizing circuit operation. In the method device activity is obtained based on one or more of measured or simulated activity. The device activity is expressed in a representation, and the expressed activity is represented in a visual form. One suitable form of activity is the simulated version of the PICA slow motion movie. The invention may apply to other simulated design data vies as well, such as switch level simulation, current density simulation, and power density simulation.

Methods and apparatus for customizing content navigation. In one embodiment, a user navigates through pre-recorded or cached content in accordance with on one or more user preferences. Such user preferences may include one or more of content cache size, instant replay time, advance time, FF / REV speeds, slow motion speed and overshoot correction. In one embodiment, a DVR setup menu may be used to enter the user preferences via a remote control device. The user preferences may then be saved in non-volatile memory and used for navigation of subsequent content playback.

When a video stream is edited in compressed domain to achieve video editing effects, the edited bitstream may violate the receiver buffer fullness requirement. In order to comply with the buffer fullness requirement, buffer parameters in the bitstream and the file format are adjusted to ensure that the buffer will not become underflow or overflow due to video editing. As such, re-encoding the entire bitstream is not needed. If the editing effect is a slow-motion effect, a fast motion effect or a black-and-white effect, the buffer parameter to be adjusted can be the transmission rate. If the editing effect is a black-and-white effect, a cutting effect, a merging effect or a fading effect, the compressed frame sized can be adjusted.

Slow motion is added to a video clip using retiming. Retiming adjusts the timing of the video. The video sequence may be stored ahead of time, modified in real time as the video is collected, or in real time as the video is played back. A memory stores a video sequence. A processor selects a subset of frames from the video sequence based on a focus frame identifier and a slow motion timing pattern. The processor generates at least one intermediate frame for insertion into the subset of frames based on the slow motion timing pattern for the video sequence and the focus frame identifier for the video sequence.

MPEG coded video data includes groups of pictures (GOPs). Each group of pictures includes one or more I-frames and a plurality of B- or P-frames. To produce an MPEG slow-forward coded video stream, the coding type of each frame in the MPEG coded video data is identified, and freeze frames are inserted as a predefined function of the identified coding type and as a predefined function of a desired slow down factor. In a preferred implementation, for a slow-down factor of n, for each original I- or P-frame, (n-1) backward-predicted freeze frames are inserted, and for each original B-frame, (n-1) copies of the original B-frames are added, and a selected amount of padding is added to each copy of each original B-frame in order to obtain a normal play bit rate and avoid video buffer overflow or underflow.

A method to record high frame rate video, compatible with existing industry standards, that permits selecting either slow-motion playback or true speed playback with synchronized audio.

A media server in a home entertainment network allows a media rendering device to act as a digital media receiver. The media server enables trick mode functions such as scan forward or reverse, slow motion, pause, and seek on rendering devices with capabilities limited to 1× playback. The media server receives commands from user input at the rendering device transmitted over the network to the media server. The media server manipulates the media stream before transmission over the network by deleting or adding frames to the media stream as necessary to emulate the desired playback functions and replacing frame timestamps to create a media stream that appears to the media rendering device as a sequential 1× stream. The transmitted media stream may not contain all of the media content stored in the corresponding media file on the media server, thus avoiding limitations on the download bandwidth and local client storage.

The invention relates to the monocular vision and IMU fused adaptive indoor positioning method comprising the following steps: gathering the acceleration and angular velocity of the IMU so as to determine the motion mode of a carrier; if the carrier is in a slow motion mode, using a vision-based SIFT characteristic point coupling algorithm to obtain the offset amount of a target in two adjacent frames of images; if the carrier is in a fast motion mode, using a vision-based sparse optical flow algorithm to obtain the offset amount of the target in two adjacent frames of images; if the carrier is in a super fast motion mode, using a IMU-based expansion Kalman filtering algorithm to obtain the target position. The method can ensure the positioning precision, can greatly reduce the computational complexity, and can be widely applied to indoor positioning of pedestrians.

A method to improve a skilled motion through holistic viewing, in-place and / or across a horizontal plane, involving a video camera, computer, and monitor system that displays a prerecorded video clip of a master's performance selected from a library of video clips recorded in a plurality of perspectives and also displays a live video feed of the student performing the master's motion in the same perspective, controlled by placement of the video camera relative to the student. Slight variations of the master's skilled motion loop repeatedly and contain blacked-out segments such that the student dynamically performs the selected motion both with and without the visual guidance of the master's performance. The video library includes invention-specific tutorials on why to use specific digital video playback controls known to the art such as horizontal orientation, freeze frame, slow motion, as well as recording the live video to disk.

A video recording apparatus provides a slow motion effect or a quick motion effect by digitally converting the frame-rate instead of by changing the playback speed of the film, and using few recording media without requiring any special device at playing. A picture encoding part encodes only valid frames by changing a rate-controlling method so that a predetermined playing frame-rate is obtained at a standard data-rate at playing. And a TS multiplexing part multiplexes by converting a frequency of a standard STC clock by only a ratio of valid frame-rate and playing frame-rate, and generating values for PCR, PTS, and DTS.

A video recording apparatus provides a slow motion effect or a quick motion effect by digitally converting the frame-rate instead of by changing the playback speed of the film, and using few recording media without requiring any special device at playing. A picture encoding part encodes only valid frames by changing a rate-controlling method so that a predetermined playing frame-rate is obtained at a standard data-rate at playing. And a TS multiplexing part multiplexes by converting a frequency of a standard STC clock by only a ratio of valid frame-rate and playing frame-rate, and generating values for PCR, PTS, and DTS.

A system and method for molecular dynamic simulation includes a database for storing data pertaining to at least one biomolecular system, a memory device for storing instructions for performing at least one algorithm having an electrostatic interaction calculating function and a multiple time step function, and subdividing forces on a basis of distance over which the forces act, and a processor for processing the data by executing the instructions in order to propagate the biomolecular system from a first set of coordinates to a second set of coordinates. The system and method significantly speed up the molecular dynamics simulation of biomolecular systems in which there are long-range and short-range electrostatic interactions and in which there are fast and slow motions, and make practicable the simulation of large protein solutions and thus, can be used to simulate protein folding and the binding of substrates to protein molecules.

The invention discloses a motion compensation accessory movement self adaptive de-interlacing method, which aims at the fact that the visual system of human eye is very sensitive to slow motion and has high resolving capability to the slow motion and for the objects in slow motion, the motion compensation deals based on motion estimation are carried on, while for the objects in fast motion, to which human eye is not sensitive, the movement self adaptive interlacing deals which are characterized by easy hardware implementation are carried on. As motion compensation arithmetic only focuses on the treatment of objects in slow motion, the invention can greatly reduce the complexity of the arithmetic and the corresponding hardware design cost. At the same time, on the base of analyzing interlacing video sampling characteristics, the invention optimizes the compensation arithmetic of classic motion, which puts forward that in different polarity fields, horizontal and vertical motion vectors should be found and the sub-pixel compensation method should be used for improving the definition of images in vertical direction aiming at the deadly defect that in the process of interlacing sampling, the definition of image in vertical direction is seriously influenced.

The invention discloses a high-frame-rate real-time image compression mode. The high-frame-rate real-time image compression mode adopts a complete production line mode for compressing videos, and the compression rate can reach 20 to 30 times. The invention relates to an ultra-high-speed image real-time compression and transmission technology, in particular to a real-time image compression and transmission technology for an ultra-high-speed industrial camera. The technology can be used for real-time image transmission at a speed being higher than 100 frames per second, and the data transmission volume per second exceeds 600M bytes. The technology adopts the following technical solution scheme comprising the steps that 1, a pixel synchronous clock is generated by a real-time image controller; 2, synchronous images are used as reference, and image information is sent into an image compression circuit of a real-time production line structure. The real-time image compression and transmission technology can be applied to multiple fields, such as automobile collision tests, flame jet tests and slow motion commercial advertisements.

The invention provides a video recording method and device. The method comprises steps as follows: a video recording instruction is received and comprises an image playing speed; a video frame image acquisition speed corresponding to the image playing speed is searched; video images are acquired according to the searched video frame image acquisition speed, and the acquired video frame images are saved in a video data file. With the adoption of the video recording method and device, acquisition can be performed on different scenes at different video frame acquisition speeds, and the requirement for slow-motion analysis of quick-motion scenes can be met during playing.

Provided are an image reproducing apparatus, an image reproducing method, an imaging apparatus and a method for controlling the imaging apparatus. At the time of reproducing an image signal of a picked up image generated by imaging at an image rate higher than that previously set, a signal processing section, which converts an image signal into that at the previously set image rate, is supplied with an image signal to be reproduced. The image rate of the image signal to be reproduced is controlled based on reproduction control information generated by using the motion detection results of the picked up image, reproduction speed of the picked up image is reduced as the detected motion becomes large, and an image signal of a slow motion reproduction image is outputted.

The embodiment of the invention provides a slow action video recording method and an electronic device, which relate to the technical field of camera shooting, and aim to enable the video recording frame rate to be greater than the maximum frame rate supported by the image sensor hardware and improve the experience of recording the slow action videos by a user. According to the specific scheme, the electronic device improves the video recording frame rate of recording the slow action videos through frame insertion. The embodiment of the invention is used for video recording.