Video appliance

• US 20030185301A1
• Filed: 04/02/2002
• Published: 10/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Abrams, Thomas Algie Jr., Beauchamp, Mark F.
• Application Number:
  US10/115,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20030185301A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/240.12
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6379 directed to encoder , e.g. for requesting a lower encoding rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 using transform coding

Abstract

Methods, devices, systems and/or storage media for video and/or audio processing. An exemplary video appliance includes one or more units having framework capabilities and a controller for controlling one or more of the units via the framework capabilities. An exemplary video appliance optionally includes an intranet.

Claims

1. A method for processing video data comprising:

serving code for execution on a runtime engine wherein the code includes instructions for compressing digital video data; and

in response to execution of the code, compressing digital video data to produce compressed digital video data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the serving includes serving code from a controller unit to an encoder unit capable of compressing digital video data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the serving includes serving code via an intranet.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the serving includes serving code via an intranet from a controller unit to an encoder unit capable of compressing digital video data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the code includes instructions for compressing the digital video data at one or more compression ratios.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the compressing compresses the digital video data using block-based motion predictive coding to reduce temporal redundancy and/or transform coding to reduce spatial redundancy.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the compressing maintains a PSNR of at least 30 dB.

8. A method of processing video data comprising:

serving code for execution on a runtime engine wherein the code includes instructions for decompressing compressed digital video data; and

in response to execution of the code, decompressing the compressed digital video data to produce decompressed digital video data.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the serving includes serving code from a controller unit to a decoder unit capable of decompressing compressed digital video data.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the serving includes serving code via an intranet.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the serving includes serving code via an intranet from a controller unit to a decoder unit capable of decompressing compressed digital video data.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the compressed digital video data includes digital video data compressed using block-based motion predictive coding to reduce temporal redundancy and/or transform coding to reduce spatial redundancy.

13. A method of controlling a video appliance having two or more units comprising:

communicating code from a controller unit to another unit wherein the other unit includes a runtime engine; and

executing the code on the runtime engine of the other unit.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the other unit comprises a unit selected from the group consisting of encoder units, decoder units, and server units.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the communicating includes communicating via a network.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the video appliance includes a network and the communicating includes communicating code via the network.

17. A video appliance comprising:

a network;

a first unit in communication with the network and configured to process digital video data and to execute code;

a second unit in communication with the network and configured to store digital video data and to execute code; and

a third unit in communication with the network and configured to communicate code to the first unit and/or to the second unit via the network.

18. The video appliance of claim 17, wherein the first unit comprises an encoder unit configured to compress digital video data and/or a decoder unit configured to decompress compressed digital video data.

19. The video appliance of claim 17, wherein the second unit comprises a server configured to store digital video data.

20. The video appliance of claim 17, wherein the third unit comprises a controller configured to communicate code via the network wherein execution of the code controls the first unit and/or the second unit.

21. The video appliance of claim 17, wherein the network comprises an intranet.

22. The video appliance of claim 17, wherein the third unit is configured to communicate the code in an executable file.

23. The video appliance of claim 17, wherein the code includes intermediate language code.

24. The video appliance of claim 17, wherein the code includes code associated with a framework.

25. The video appliance of claim 17, wherein one or more of the units includes a runtime engine.

26. The video appliance of claim 17, wherein one or more of the units share one or more processors.

27. The video appliance of claim 17, wherein digital video data includes digital video data that complies with a SMPTE specification.

28. The video appliance of claim 17 further comprising a data architecture for supporting interoperability between the one or more units.

29. The video appliance of claim 17, wherein one or more of the units include a runtime engine associated with a framework selected from the group consisting of the .NET™

framework, the ACTIVEX®

framework, and the JAVA®

framework.

30. A video appliance configured to use one or more network protocols comprising:

a first unit configured to process digital video data and having a PCI—

VME interface;

a second unit having associated storage for storing digital video data; and

a third unit configured to communicate code to the first unit and/or to the second unit using the one or more network protocols.

31. The video appliance of claim 30, wherein the first unit comprises an encoder unit configured to compress digital video data and/or a decoder unit configured to decompress compressed digital video data.

32. The video appliance of claim 30, wherein the second unit comprises a server configured to store digital video data.

33. The video appliance of claim 30, wherein one or more of the units includes a runtime engine capable of executing the code.

34. A video appliance comprising:

a first unit configured to process digital video data and having a PCI to SDI interface module;

a second unit having associated storage for storing digital video data; and

a third unit configured to control the first unit and the second unit through use of code communicated via a network.

35. The video appliance of claim 34, wherein the PCI to SDI interface complies with one or more SMPTE specifications for transmission of digital video data.

36. The video appliance of claim 34, wherein the first unit comprises an encoder unit configured to compress digital video data and/or a decoder unit configured to decompress compressed digital video data.

37. The video appliance of claim 34, wherein the second unit comprises a server configured to store digital video data.

38. The video appliance of claim 34, wherein one or more of the units includes a runtime engine capable of executing the code.

39. A video appliance having an intranet comprising:

a first unit for encoding and/or decoding digital video data via software-based encoding and/or decoding;

a second unit having associated storage for storing digital video data; and

a third unit configured to control the first unit and the second unit through software communicated via the intranet.

40. A video appliance comprising:

processor means for processing digital video data;

storage means for storing digital video data;

control means for controlling the processor means and the storage means via communicable code; and

communication means for communicating communicable code from the control means to the processor means and the storage means.

41. The video appliance of claim 40, wherein the processor means for processing digital video data comprises an encoder unit and/or a decoder unit.

42. The video appliance of claim 40, wherein the storage means for storing digital video data comprises a server unit.

43. The video appliance of claim 40, wherein the control means comprises a controller unit.

44. The video appliance of claim 40, wherein the communication means comprises a network having one or more communication links between the processor means, the storage means and the control means.

45. The video appliance of claim 44, wherein the network comprises an intranet.

46. A video appliance comprising:

communication means for communicating code for execution on a runtime engine wherein the code includes instructions for compressing digital video data; and

compression means for compressing digital video data to produce compressed digital video data.

47. The video appliance of claim 46, wherein the communication means comprises an intranet.

48. The video appliance of claim 46, wherein the compression means comprises an encoder unit.

49. A video appliance comprising:

communication means for communicating code for execution on a runtime engine wherein the code includes instructions for decompressing digital video data; and

decompression means for decompressing compressed digital video data to produce decompressed digital video data.

50. The video appliance of claim 49, wherein the communication means comprises an intranet.

51. The video appliance of claim 49, wherein the decompression means comprises a decoder unit.

52. A video appliance comprising:

an intranet; and

a data architecture having one or more layers selected from the group consisting of application layers, storage area network layers, digital asset management layers and control and/or messaging layers.