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Adaptive bit rate control for rate reduction of MPEG coded video

US6937770B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateDec 28, 2000
Grant dateAug 30, 2005
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Expiry dateJan 25, 2023

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/61
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Original-quality MPEG coded video is processed to produce reduced-quality MPEG coded video at a reduced bit rate. The processing is based on a scale factor between average frame size of the original-quality MPEG coded video and a desired average frame size of the reduced-quality MPEG coded video. For each Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) block of each frame, the processing calculates a size of the block of the reduced frame by scaling the original block size by the scale factor, and removes a sufficient number of bits from the original block to obtain substantially the calculated size. In addition, the processing accumulates excess bits when the block size reduction eliminates more bits from a block than are necessary for the desired reduction of the size of the block, and any excess bits are used for processing a number of following blocks.

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