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Systems and methods for digital video high accuracy fast forward, rewind and skip

US8472783B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 30, 2010
Grant dateJun 25, 2013
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Expiry dateAug 25, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N21/440281
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In various embodiments, a recording and playback manager of a digital video recorder (DVR), set top box, receiver or other device stores and accesses statistics in a statistics file related to average distances between reference frames (e.g., intra frames or I-frames) within blocks of the video data of the recording. Accessing these statistics during playback enables the system to more accurately locate reference frames to display while executing the playback in a trick mode such as fast forward, rewind or skip. The average distance between reference frames for a particular block of video data may be used to jump from one reference frame to the next reference frame in that block during playback in trick mode.

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