Mixed Resolution Video Processing for Bandwidth Reduction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current video processing technologies face challenges in transmitting high-quality video in environments with limited resources or poor conditions, leading to issues like low resolution and increased bandwidth pressure, especially when decoding video data.

Innovation Solution

A video processing method that involves coding and decoding an original video to obtain a mixed resolution video, where key frames are maintained at a higher resolution and non-key frames are downsampled, allowing for amplification using information from key frames to achieve high-quality video output with reduced bandwidth pressure.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If the whole video is compressed to a large extent, then the resource occupation during transmission is reduced, but the decoded video will have low resolution and poor quality

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo data volumeVSAvoidvideo resolution
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments video frames into key frames and non-key frames, applying different compression strategies to each type. Key frames are compressed at higher resolution while non-key frames are compressed at lower resolution, then non-key frames are amplified using key frame information. This segmentation allows the system to reduce overall data volume while maintaining quality where needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by maintaining high resolution for key frames (which contain important scene information) while using low resolution for non-key frames. The amplification process then restores quality to non-key frames using key frame references, creating a non-uniform resolution distribution that optimizes both bandwidth usage and perceived quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Manufacturing precision

If key frames are maintained at high resolution, then video quality is improved, but bandwidth pressure increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo resolutionVSAvoidbandwidth consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies partial action by only maintaining high resolution for key frames rather than all frames. Non-key frames are transmitted at lower resolution and only amplified when necessary. This partial high-resolution approach reduces overall bandwidth consumption compared to transmitting everything at high resolution, while still providing quality where most needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Quantity of substance

If non-key frames are downsampled to reduce data volume, then transmission resources are saved, but video quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata volumeVSAvoidframe resolution
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses key frames as intermediary references to restore the quality of downsampled non-key frames. The amplification process uses key frame information as a mediator to reconstruct high-quality non-key frames from their low-resolution versions, effectively compensating for the quality loss during downsampling while maintaining reduced data volume.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12200248B2Video processing method, device and storage medium
Publication Date: 2025.01.14 SANECHIPS TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The present application provides a video processing method, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: coding and decoding an original video to obtain a mixed resolution video, where the mixed resolution video includes a first resolution frame and a second resolution frame each corresponding to a key frame, and a third resolution frame corresponding to a non-key frame, where the first resolution frame has a resolution higher than a resolution of the second resolution frame or a resolution of the third resolution frame; and amplifying, according to the first resolution frame and the second resolution frame, the third resolution frame corresponding to the non-key frame to output an amplified video, where the amplified video includes the first resolution frame corresponding to the key frame, and an amplified target frame corresponding to the non-key frame.