Patent · US Expired

Method and apparatus for simplifying real-time data encoding

US6408029B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 22, 1999
Grant dateJun 18, 2002
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Expiry dateMar 22, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/137
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method for encoding data is presented comprising receiving a stream of data to be encoded comprising a plurality of frames, selecting a frame-type for each of the plurality of frame, and grouping subsets of the plurality of frames based, at least in part, on the selected frame type to facilitate optimal, random access to select groups of frames, and to facilitate motion estimation.

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