Method for dynamically adjusting video frame

• US 20080151992A1
• Filed: 03/13/2007
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Altek Corporation
• Original Assignee: Altek Corporation
• Inventors: Chuang, Shih-Fang
• Application Number:
  US11/717,035
• Publication Number:
  US 20080151992A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/240.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4335 Housekeeping operations, e.g. prioritizing content for deletion because of storage space restrictions storage management, e.g. defragmentation G06F3/0604; unloading stored programs G06F9/445; storage management in file systems G06F16/10; buffering arrangements in a network node or in an end terminal in packet networks H04L49/90
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

A method for dynamically adjusting video frame is adapted to store video data to a cache memory with a plurality of registers. The method comprises the steps: first, receiving the video data and compressing the video frames; next, obtaining a first usage level of the cache memory; next, gathering statistics regarding the amount of registers that have been set at an indicating status in the circular queue; next, calculating a second usage level of the cache memory according to the amount of the indicating status; next, adjusting the size of the video frames by comparing the difference between the second usage level and the first usage level; and finally, storing the video data to the cache memory according to the size of the video frames. Thereby, all of the space of the cache memory is used fully to extend video recording time.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically adjusting video frames in which the size of video frames are dynamically adjusted and then stored to a cache memory when the cache memory is read by a memory card, comprising the steps:

determining a using status of the cache memory, wherein the cache memory is composed of a plurality of registers;

decreasing the size of the video frames to be stored to the cache memory when the using status of the cache memory is that the amount of the empty status being changed to the full status is increased; and

increasing the size of the video frames to be stored to the cache memory when the using status of the cache memory is that the amount of the full status being changed to the empty status is increased.

2. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cache memory operates in a multitasking manner to simultaneously write and read the data of the cache memory.

3. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 1, wherein the statuses of the registers can be separately set as a writing status or a reading status.

4. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 1, wherein the status of the registers is set at the empty status after the data of the registers have been stored in the memory card.

5. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 1, wherein the size of the video frames is gradually adjusted by adjusting the percentage thereof.

6. A method for dynamically adjusting video frames in which the size of video frames are dynamically adjusted and then stored to a cache memory when the cache memory is read by a memory card, comprising the steps:

receiving and compressing the video frames, wherein the video frames are used to compose a video data;

obtaining a first usage level of the cache memory, wherein the cache memory is composed of a plurality of registers;

gathering statistics regarding the amount of registers that have been set at an indicating status in the circular queue;

calculating a second usage level of the cache memory according to the amount of the indicating status;

adjusting the size of the video frames by comparing the difference between the second usage level and the first usage level; and

storing the video data to the cache memory according to the size of the video frames.

7. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 6, wherein the video data is composed of the video frames, and the video frames are storage units.

8. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 6, wherein the cache memory operates in a multitasking manner to simultaneously write and read the data of the cache memory.

9. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 6, wherein the cache memory is designed as a circular queue.

10. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 6, wherein the registers are formed a uniform property.

11. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 6, wherein the indicating status of the registers can be set at a full status or an empty status.

12. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 11, wherein the status of the registers can be separately set at a writing status or a reading status.

13. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 12, wherein the status of the registers is changed from empty status to writing status so that the video data can be stored.

14. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 11, wherein the status of the registers is changed from full status to reading status so that the video data can be further constructed to a video format file and then stored to the memory card.

15. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 14, wherein the status of the registers is erased and changed from reading status to empty status if the video data has been constructed to the video format file.

16. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 14, wherein the video format file is an M-JPEG (motion joint photographic experts group).

17. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first usage level and the second usage level are percentage levels of the used registers and the unused registers of the cache memory.

18. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 17, wherein the first usage level and the second usage level can be defined as 0(Empty), ¼

(Almost Empty), 2/4(Half Full), ¾

(Almost Full), or 1(Full) according to the usage percentage.

19. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 6, wherein the size of the video frames is gradually adjusted by adjusting the percentage thereof.

20. The method for dynamically adjusting video frames as claimed in claim 6, wherein the size of the video frames is decreased if the second usage level is greater than the first usage level, and the size of the video frames is increased if the second usage level is less than the first usage level.