TRANSIENT VIDEO ANOMALY ANALYSIS AND REPORTING SYSTEM
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1. An Audio/Video (AV) signal monitor, comprising:
- a monitor operable in the Transport Layer of a digital broadcast network, implementing the ISO open system interconnect network model, for inferring Audio/Video (AV) quality of AV signals at the Application Layer of said broadcast network;
said monitor continuously performing one or more tests during normal operation of said broadcast network to detect anomalies which exceed predetermined parameters in AV signals transmitted in a transport stream on said broadcast network and received by said monitor.
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Abstract
A system and method for detecting and analyzing transient video anomalies in AV broadcast networks includes AV signal monitors associated with each decoding device in the network for continuously monitoring AV signals received by their associated video decoding device for detecting signal anomalies which are outside predetermined signal parameter levels during normal operation of the broadcast network.
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1. An Audio/Video (AV) signal monitor, comprising:
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a monitor operable in the Transport Layer of a digital broadcast network, implementing the ISO open system interconnect network model, for inferring Audio/Video (AV) quality of AV signals at the Application Layer of said broadcast network; said monitor continuously performing one or more tests during normal operation of said broadcast network to detect anomalies which exceed predetermined parameters in AV signals transmitted in a transport stream on said broadcast network and received by said monitor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A transient video anomaly analysis and reporting system for detecting, analyzing and reporting anomalies in Audio/Video (AV) broadcast networks having a head-end which transmits encoded AV signals over a distribution infrastructure and destination video decoding devices for receiving and decoding said AV signals and outputting an audio signal and a video signal, comprising:
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an AV signal monitor associated with each said decoding device for continuously monitoring AV signals received by its associated video decoding device for detecting signal anomalies which exceed predetermined signal parameter levels during normal operation of said broadcast network and for outputting a report of each detected anomaly; a database for storing report data; and a management server connected to said monitors over said broadcast network for receiving reports output from said monitors and for storing report data in said database, said management server having a logic inference engine for analyzing data stored in said database to isolate faults responsible for detected anomalies and a module for generating and transmitting control signals to one or more of said monitors to cause said one or more of said monitors to monitor predetermined parameters of said AV signals.
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15. A method for supporting and quality monitoring digital Audio/Video (AV) services in an AV broadcast network having video decoding devices capable of decoding digital AV bitstreams, comprising:
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during normal operation of said digital broadcast network, continuously monitoring AV signals received by each video decoding device for signal anomalies which fall outside predetermined parameter levels and producing a report of each detected anomaly; constantly monitoring said reports and storing report data in a database; analyzing report data to isolate faults responsible for detected anomalies; and generating a report identifying the cause of detected anomalies.
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16. A method of analyzing the effect of lost or corrupted data in an Audio/Video (AV) transport stream, comprising:
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testing said AV transport stream for lost or corrupted data; examining the picture type field of each picture in said transport stream and, when lost or corrupted data is detected, determining the relative importance of the lost or corrupted data based on the picture type of the picture at which lost or corrupt data is detected; examining the display order field of each picture header in said transport stream to determine whether lost or corrupt data involves multiple pictures within a group of pictures; and examining time code fields in Group Of Pictures (GOP) headers in said transport stream to determine whether lost or corrupted data involves more pictures than the number of pictures associated with a group of pictures header. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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