Method and apparatus for processing a data series including processing priority data

a data series and priority data technology, applied in the field of audiovideo transmitters and audiovideo receivers, data processing apparatus and, can solve the problems of not performing specific discussions, difficult to preponderantly reproduce an important scene cut synchronously with audio, and difficulty in synchronizing audio with audio, etc., and achieves smooth processing

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-08-30
PANASONIC CORP
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[0048] Another aspect of the present invention is the audio-video transmitting apparatus wherein it is possible to select whether to transmit said multiplexing control information by arranging said information without multiplexing it before said data and / or control information or transmit said multiplexing control information through a transmission line different from the transmission line for transmitting said data and / or control information.
[0049] Yet another aspect of the present invention is an audio-video receiving apparatus comprising: main looking-listening means for looking at and listening to a broadcast program; and auxiliary looking-listening means for cyclically detecting the state of a broadcast program other than the broadcast program looked and listened through said main looking-listening means; wherein said detection is performed so that a program and / or data necessary when said broadcast program looked and listened through said main looking-listening means is switched to other broadcast program can be smoothly processed, and said data includes video data and / or audio data.
[0056] A still yet further aspect of the present invention is an audio-video transmitting apparatus for transmitting said encoded information by using the priority added to said encoded information and thereby thinning it when (1) an actual transfer rate exceeds the target transfer rate of information for a video or audio or (2) it is decided that writing of said encoded information into a transmitting buffer is delayed as the result of comparing the elapsed time after start of transmission with a period to be decoded or output added to said encoded information.
[0076] By reducing each execution frequency of dispensable processing so that the time required for decoding becomes shorter than a designated time in accordance with the estimated time of each processing, it is possible to control the decoding time to the designated time or shorter and keep a delay small.
[0077] Moreover, it is possible to set the decoding execution time to a value equal to or less than a designated time by transmitting the execution time of indispensable processing and that of dispensable processing estimated by the receiving side to the transmitting side and determining each execution frequency at the transmitting side in accordance with each execution time.

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That is, there has been a problem that no specific discussion has been performed from the following viewpoints:
(B1) The conventional method for discussing a picture correspondingly to the frame type of the video has a problem that it is difficult to preponderantly reproduce an important scene cut synchronously with audio by handling a plurality of video streams or a plurality of audio streams and reflecting the intention of an editor because the grading of the information which can be handled is in a single stream.
Therefore, it is a problem how to correspond to the case of exceeding the throughput of the decoder.
If decoding is not completed within the time, an extra time becomes a delay.
If the delay is accumulated, the delay from the transmitting side to the receiving side increases and the system cannot be used as a video telephone.
Moreover, when decoding cannot be completed within a designated time because a communication counterpart generates an out-of-spec bit stream, a problem occurs that a video cannot be transmitted.
The above problem occurs not only for a video but also for audio data.
However, because the same software can be executed by personal computers different in structure such as a CPU, bus width, or accelerator, it is difficult to previously consider the upper limit of a necessary performance and therefore, a problem occurs that a picture cannot be decoded within a designated time.
Moreover, when coded data for a video having a length exceeding the throughput of a receiver is transmitted, coding cannot be completed within a designated time.
However, because the last decoded picture is not completely restored by the means for solving the problem 1, there is a problem that deterioration of the picture quality influentially increases as time passes.
Moreover, picture-quality deterioration is spread.

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[0388]FIG. 33 shows the structure of the transmitter of the Symbol 2101 denotes a picture-input terminal and the size of a sheet of picture has 144 pixels by 176 pixels. Symbol 2102 denotes a video encoder that is constituted with four components 1021, 1022, 1023, and 1024 (see Recommendation H.261).

[0389] Symbol 1021 denotes a switching unit for dividing an input picture into macroblocks (a square region of 16 pixels by 16 pixels) and deciding whether to intra-encode or inter-encode the blocks and 1022 denotes movement compensating means for generating a movement compensating picture in accordance with the local decoded picture which can be calculated in accordance with the last-time encoding result, calculating the difference between the movement compensating picture and an input picture, and outputting the result in macroblocks. Movement compensation includes halfpixel prediction having a long processing time and fullpixel prediction having a short processing time. Symbol 1023 d...

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[0393]FIG. 40 is a flowchart of the transmitting method of the

[0394] Because operations of this embodiment are similar to those of the first embodiment, corresponding elements are added. A picture is input in step 801 (picture input terminal 2101) and the picture is divided into macroblocks in step 802. Hereafter, processings from step 803 to step 806 are repeated until the processing corresponding to every macroblock is completed in accordance with the conditional branch in step 807. Moreover, when each processing is executed so that frequencies of the processings from step 803 to step 806 can be recorded in specific variables, a corresponding variable is incremented by 1.

[0395] First, it is decided whether to intra-encode or inter-encode a macroblock to be processed in step 803 (switching unit 1021). When inter-encoding the macroblock, movement compensation is performed in step 804 (movement compensating means 1022). Thereafter, DCT transformation and variable-length encoding are...

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[0397]FIG. 35 shows the structure of the receiver of the

[0398] In FIG. 35, symbol 307 denotes an input terminal for inputting the output of the transmitter of the first embodiment and 301 denotes receiving means for fetching a variable-length code and a data string through inverse multiplexing in accordance with the output of the transmitter of the first embodiment and outputting them. In this case, it is assumed that the time required to receive the data for one sheet is measured and also output.

[0399] Symbol 303 denotes a decoder for a video using a variable-length code as an input, which is constituted with five components. Symbol 3031 denotes variable-length decoding means for fetching a DCT coefficient and other encoded information from a variable-length code, 3032 denotes inverse orthogonal transforming means for applying inverse DCT transformation to a DCT coefficient, and 3033 denotes a switching unit for switching an output to upside or downside every macroblock in accorda...

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Abstract

A reception control section 11 for receiving the information including data and its transmission format information from a memory or communication channel, a separating section 12 for analyzing and separating received information, a transmitting section 13 for transmitting information to a memory or transmission channel, a video extending section 14 for extending a video, and video-extension control section 15 control the processing state of said video extending section 14 for extending at least one or more videos and a video synthesizing apparatus constituted with a video synthesizing section 16 for synthesizing videos in accordance with extended information, an output section 17 for outputting a synthesized result, and a terminal control section 18 for controlling the above means makes it possible to synthesize a plurality of videos at the same time and correspond to a dynamic change of transmission format information.

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[0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 626,271 filed Jul. 24, 2003 which is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 194,008, filed Mar. 17, 1999, which is a U.S. National Phase Application of PCT International Application PCT / JP98 / 01084, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,674,477, the contents of which are incorporated by reference.TECHNICAL FIELD [0002] The present invention relates to audio-video transmitter and audio-video receiver, data-processing apparatus and method, waveform-data-transmitting method and apparatus and waveform-data-receiving method and apparatus, and video-transmitting method and apparatus and video-receiving method and apparatus. BACKGROUND ART [0003] There has been an apparatus which satisfies the sense of real existence that a counterpart is present in front of you and aims at realistic picture communication by extracting, for example, a person's picture out of the scenery picture of a space in which you are present an...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04B1/66H04L1/18H04N7/14H04N7/15H04N7/24H04N7/26H04N7/32H04N7/36H04N7/50H04N7/52
CPCH04L1/1854H04N19/87H04N7/147H04N7/152H04N7/24H04N7/52H04N21/234327H04N21/235H04N21/236H04N21/2368H04N21/238H04N21/2381H04N21/4305H04N21/4341H04N21/435H04N21/4363H04N21/4381H04N21/44008H04N21/6137H04N21/643H04N21/6437H04N21/6543H04N21/6547H04N21/6587H04N21/84H04N21/854H04N21/85406H04N21/8547H04N19/00H04N19/50H04N19/176H04N19/46H04N19/51H04N19/102H04N19/61H04N19/132H04N19/142H04N19/156H04N19/164H04N19/18H04N19/42H04N19/523H04L1/1887H04N7/08H04N21/23
Inventor YAMAGUCHI, TAKAOETOH, MINORUARAKAWA, HIROSHI
Owner PANASONIC CORP
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