Video Stream Auxiliary Indication for Differentiated Transmission

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing video data transmission methods require intensive calculation and delay due to deep packet inspection (DPI) for scalable video coding (SVC) streams, especially when proprietary protocols and DRM protection are involved, limiting efficient transmission in bandwidth-constrained environments.

Innovation Solution

Incorporating auxiliary indication information in the video stream to provide priority and size information, allowing base stations and handheld terminals to perform differentiated transmission without full DPI, thereby reducing inspection complexity and improving user experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If deep packet inspection (DPI) is performed on each data packet to obtain priority and size information, then accurate video stream differentiation is achieved, but calculation intensity increases and transmission delay occurs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepriority information accuracyVSAvoidtransmission delay
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by embedding priority and size information in auxiliary indication information within the video stream before transmission. This allows the base station to obtain packet priority and size information without performing deep packet inspection during transmission, thereby reducing calculation intensity and transmission delay while maintaining accurate video stream differentiation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If full DPI inspection is performed on data packets to obtain quality layer number, priority number, and time layer number, then comprehensive video stream control is achieved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo stream control accuracyVSAvoidinspection complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the essential control information (priority and size) from the video stream and places it in auxiliary indication information that can be easily accessed. This extraction approach allows the base station to obtain necessary control information without performing complex deep packet inspection, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining video stream control accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Ease of operation

If differentiated transmission is performed based on full packet inspection, then user experience is improved, but calculation resources are consumed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experienceVSAvoidcalculation resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring priority and size information in the video stream's auxiliary indication information. This allows the base station to perform differentiated transmission based on readily available information without consuming excessive calculation resources, thereby improving user experience while reducing energy consumption for packet inspection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP2849393B1Method and device for transmitting video data
Publication Date: 2019.08.28 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a video data coding method and apparatus, where the method includes: obtaining a video file; compressing the obtained video file into a video stream, where the video stream includes data of multiple groups of pictures; adding indication information before data of each group of pictures among the data of the multiple groups of pictures in the video stream, where a user terminal or a base station learns, based on the indication information, a priority and a size of each data frame in the data of the group of pictures behind the indication information. In the transmission method provided by an embodiment of the present invention, auxiliary indication information in a video stream is detected, and priority information and size information of a subsequent stream are obtained, so that a base station can perform differentiated transmission of the video stream based on the obtained priority information and size information, and a handheld terminal can also request, based on the indication information in the received video stream in combination with a current channel resource status, the base station to perform differentiated transmission of video data, thereby improving user experience of the terminal.