System and method for very low frame rate video streaming for face-to-face video conferencing
US7583287B2 · kind B2 · utility
29Cited by
2References
19Claims
0Family size
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 22, 2005 |
| Grant date | Sep 1, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 23, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N7/148
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A real-time low frame-rate video compression system and method that allows the user to perform face-to-face communication through an extremely low bandwidth network. At the encoder side, the system is able to automatically select only a few good faces from the original sequence with high visual quality and compress and transmit them. At the decoder side, the system use image-morphing based rendering method to generate a normal frame-rate video. Experimental results show that the system is superior to more traditional video codecs for low bit-rate face-to-face communication.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.