Device for and a Method of Processing an Input Data Stream Comprising a Sequence of Input Frames

• US 20080304810A1
• Filed: 11/30/2006
• Published: 12/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Rijckaert, Albert Maria Arnold, Manders, Roland Peter Jan Mathijs, Moors, Eric Wilhelmus Josephus
• Application Number:
  US12/097,935
• Publication Number:
  US 20080304810A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/68
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A device (1800) for processing an input data stream comprising a sequence of input frames, wherein the device (1800) comprises a processing unit (1802) for generating an output data stream as a trick-play stream comprising a sequence of output frames based on the input data stream and based on a predetermined replication rate, and a timing unit (1803) for assigning timing information to the output frames, said timing information being based on timing information of the sequence of input frames.

Claims

1. A device (1800) for processing an input data stream comprising a sequence of input frames, wherein the device (1800) comprises

a processing unit (1802) for generating an output data stream as a trick-play stream comprising a sequence of output frames based on the input data stream and based on a predetermined replication rate;

and

a timing unit (1803) for assigning timing information to the output frames, said timing information being based on timing information of the sequence of input frames.

2. The device (1800) according to claim 1, wherein the timing unit (1803) is adapted for assigning the timing information to the output frames so that the relative timing information is identical to the relative timing information of the sequence of input frames or so that the relative timing information of the sequence of output frames is corrected with respect to the relative timing information of the sequence of input frames.

3. The device (1800) according to claim 1, wherein the timing unit (1803) is adapted for adjusting Decoding Time Stamps and/or recording timestamps as the timing information.

4. The device (1800) according to claim 1, wherein the timing unit (1803) is adapted for assigning the timing information to the output frames so that a distance between a start of an output frame and a corresponding Decoding Time Stamp is identical to a distance between a start of an input frame and a corresponding further Decoding Time Stamp.

5. The device (1800) according to claim 1, wherein the timing unit (1803) is adapted for inserting a timing packet in the sequence of the output frames at a position between subsequent output frames to be reproduced for the first time.

6. The device (1800) according to claim 5, wherein the timing unit (1803) is adapted for inserting a Program Clock Reference as the timing packet.

7. The device (1800) according to claim 5, wherein the timing unit (1803) is adapted for correcting the timing packet inserted in the sequence of the output frames with respect to a further timing packet of the sequence of the input frames.

8. The device (1800) according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit (1802) is adapted for generating the output frames of the output data stream by stretching the input frames of the input data stream along a time axis in accordance with the predetermined replication rate.

9. The device (1800) according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit (1802) is adapted such that a bi-directional predictive frame is repeated a number of times in accordance with the predetermined replication rate.

10. The device (1800) according to claim 9, wherein the timing unit (1803) is adapted for assigning timing information to repeated bi-directional predictive frames in the same manner as timing information is assigned to bi-directional predictive frames reproduced for the first time.

11. The device (1800) according to claim 1, wherein the timing unit (1803) is adapted such that bi-directional predictive frames having a size exceeding a predetermined threshold value are compressed in time.

12. The device (1800) according to claim 1, wherein the timing unit (1803) is adapted such that bi-directional predictive frames having a size exceeding a predetermined threshold value are compressed in time with exception of a last one of repeated bi-directional predictive frames.

13. The device (1800) according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit (1802) is adapted to insert empty frames to repeat anchor frames in accordance with the predetermined replication rate.

14. The device (1800) according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit (1802) is adapted for generating the trick-play stream according to a trick-play reproduction mode of the group consisting of a slow-forward reproduction mode, a slow-reverse reproduction mode, a stand still reproduction mode, a step reproduction mode, and an instant replay reproduction mode.

15. The device (1800) according to claim 1, wherein the input frames and/or the output frames include at least one frame of the group consisting of an intra-coded frame, a forward predictive frame and a bi-directional predictive frame.

16. The device (1800) according to claim 1, comprising a storing unit (1801) for storing the input data stream and/or the output data stream.

17. The device (1800) according to claim 1, adapted to process an input data stream of video data or audio data.

18. The device (1800) according to claim 1, adapted to process an input data stream of digital data.

19. The device (1800) according to claim 1, comprising a reproduction unit (1806) for reproducing the output data stream.

20. The device (1800) according to claim 1, adapted to process an MPEG2 input data stream or an MPEG4 input data stream.

21. The device (1800) according to claim 1, adapted to process an at least partially encrypted input data stream.

22. The device (1800) according to claim 1, realized as at least one of the group consisting of a digital video recording device;

a network-enabled device;

a conditional access system;

a portable audio player;

a portable video player;

a mobile phone;

a DVD player;

a CD player;

a hard disk based media player;

an Internet radio device;

a computer;

a television;

a public entertainment device; and

an MP3 player.

23. A method of processing an input data stream comprising a sequence of input frames, the method comprising

generating an output data stream as a trick-play stream comprising a sequence of output frames based on the input data stream and based on a predetermined replication rate;

and

assigning timing information to the output frames, said timing information being based on timing information of the sequence of input frames.

24. A computer-readable medium, in which a computer program of processing an input data stream comprising a sequence of input frames is stored, which computer program, when being executed by a processor (1805), is adapted to control or carry out the following method:

generating an output data stream as a trick-play stream comprising a sequence of output frames based on the input data stream and based on a predetermined replication rate; and

assigning timing information to the output frames, said timing information being based on timing information of the sequence of input frames.

25. A program element of processing an input data stream comprising a sequence of input frames, which program element, when being executed by a processor (1805), is adapted to control or carry out a method of:

generating an output data stream as a trick-play stream comprising a sequence of output frames based on the input data stream and based on a predetermined replication rate; and

assigning timing information to the output frames, said timing information being based on timing information of the sequence of input frames.