Video distribution system, video distribution device, video reception device, video distribution method, video reception method, video distribution program, and video reception program

• US 20050289615A1
• Filed: 06/20/2005
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Nishitani, Masanobu
• Application Number:
  US11/155,607
• Publication Number:
  US 20050289615A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/88
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2365 Multiplexing of several video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2625 for delaying content or additional data distribution, e.g. because of an extended sport event
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43076 of the same content streams on multiple devices, e.g. when family members are watching the same movie on different devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4347 Demultiplexing of several video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44209 Monitoring of downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. bandwidth variations of a wireless network arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17336 Handling of requests in head-ends

Abstract

A video delivery system includes: a video delivery device which delivers video data through a network. The video delivery device has a function of generating video data of the same contents as preceding delivery video data and succeeding delivery video data, and a function of delivering the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data with a predetermined time difference. The video delivery system also includes a video receiving device which receives the video data delivered from the video delivery device and generates video data to be played back. The video receiving device has a function of receiving the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data, a function of checking the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data, and a function of generating video data to be played back on the basis of a result of the checking of the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data.

Claims

1. A video delivery system, comprising:

a video delivery device which delivers video data, the video delivery device generating video data of the same contents as preceding delivery video data and succeeding delivery video data, and delivering the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data with a predetermined time difference; and

a video receiving device which receives the video data delivered from the video delivery device and generates video data to be played back, the video receiving device receiving the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data, checking the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data, and generating video data to be played back on the basis of a result of the checking of the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data.

2. The video delivery system according to claim 1, further comprising:

two networks that are individually provided including, a network that delivers the preceding delivery video data and a network that delivers the succeeding delivery video data.

3. A video delivery device, comprising:

a device that generates video data having a same content as preceding delivery video data and succeeding delivery video data, and

a device that delivers the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data with a predetermined time difference.

4. The video delivery device according to claim 3, each of the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data having a plurality of unit video data, and having additional information respectively added to the plurality of unit video data.

5. The video delivery device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a device that provides error correction code processing for at least the preceding delivery video data of the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data.

6. The video delivery device according to claim 5, the error correction code processing being forward error correction code processing.

7. The video delivery device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a device that provides interleave processing for at least the preceding delivery video data of the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data.

8. A video receiving device, comprising:

a device that receives from preceding delivery video data and succeeding delivery video data which are generated from video data of the same contents, preceding delivery video data which is precedently delivered and the succeeding delivered video data which is succeedingly delivered;

a device that checks the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data; and

a device that generates video data to be played back on the basis of the check result of the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data.

9. The video receiving device according to claim 8, further comprising:

a device that stores the delivered preceding delivery video data temporarily.

10. The video receiving device according to claim 8, further comprising:

a device that decodes the video data to which error correction code processing has been applied.

11. The video receiving device according to claim 8, further comprising:

a device that decodes the video data to which interleave processing has been applied.

12. The video receiving device according to claim 8, the check of the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data being performed by checking whether there is a corresponding relation between additional information included in the preceding delivery video data and additional information included in the succeeding delivery video data, and by checking the unit video data included in the preceding delivery video data and the unit video data included in the succeeding delivery video data in the corresponding relation between the preceding delivery video data and a the succeeding delivery video data.

13. A video delivery method, comprising:

generating video data of the same contents as preceding delivery video data and succeeding delivery video data, and

delivering the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data with a predetermined time difference.

14. A video delivery program embodied on a computer readable medium, comprising:

a program to cause video delivery device to generate video data of the same contents as preceding delivery video data and succeeding delivery video data, and todeliver the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data with a predetermined time difference.

15. A video receiving method, comprising:

receiving preceding delivery video data which is precedently delivered, of the preceding delivery video data and succeeding delivery video data which are generated from video data of the same contents, and the succeeding delivery video data which is succeedingly delivered;

checking the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data; and

generating video data to be played back on the basis of the check result of the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data.

16. A video receiving program embodied on a computer readable medium, comprising:

a program to cause a video receiving device to receive preceding delivery video data which is precedently delivered, of the preceding delivery video data and succeeding delivery video data which are generated from video data of the same contents, and the succeeding delivery video data which is succeedingly delivered, and to check the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data, and to generate video data to be played back on the basis of the check result of the preceding delivery video data and the succeeding delivery video data.