SVC FILE DATA SHARING METHOD AND SVC FILE THEREOF

• US 20090222486A1
• Filed: 01/09/2007
• Published: 09/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Bae, Seong-Jun, Hong, Jin-Woo, Kim, Jae-Gon, Cho, Yong-Ju
• Granted Patent: US 7,987,216 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/00 Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/34 Scalability techniques involving progressive bit-plane based encoding of the enhancement layer, e.g. fine granular scalability [FGS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234318 by decomposing into objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234327 by decomposing into layers, e.g. base layer and one or more enhancement layers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2662 Controlling the complexity of the video stream, e.g. by scaling the resolution or bitrate of the video stream based on the client capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64723 Monitoring of network processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of network load traffic related reporting in data switching networks H04L43/062
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8451 using Advanced Video Coding [AVC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/85406 involving a specific file format, e.g. MP4 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/91 Television signal processing therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/914 Video

Abstract

A method of sharing data of a scalable video coding (SVC) file and the SVC file are provided. The SVC file includes: a scalable base track including at least one scalable layer entry each storing metadata of the at least one scalable layer; and at least one sub track generated based on the scalable base track, which includes identification information of the scalable layer that is a basis of generation of a sub track among the scalable layers and identification information of the scalable base track instead of the scalable layer entry. Accordingly, when an SVC coded content is stored as a file, it is possible to reduce a storage capacity by avoiding duplication of common data and to provide convenience when the stored content is reprocessed by allowing a relation of tracks correlated to one another to be represented.

Claims

1. A method of sharing data of an SVC (scalable video coding) file having media data which includes at least one scalable layer in each frame, the method comprising:

storing at least one scalable layer entry, in which metadata for the at least one scalable layer included in the media data is stored, in a scalable base track;

storing identification information of the at least one scalable layer and identification information of scalable base tracks in a sub track generated based on the part of the scalable layers included in the media data which is a basis of the scalable base track; and

sharing the scalable layer entry stored in the scalable base track on the basis of the identification information of the scalable layers and the identification information of the scalable base track.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the identification information of the part of the scalable layers and the identification information of the scalable base track is represented in an sgpd track of the scalable sub track.

10. A computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 5.

3. A method of sharing data of an SVC file having a plurality of media data which includes scalable base tracks having at least one scalable layer, the method comprising storing identification information of the scalable base track that is a basis of generation of a sub track among the scalable base tracks in at least one sub track generated based on one of the scalable base tracks.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising managing the at least one sub track by binding sub tracks which are generated based on the same scalable base track on the basis of the identification information of the scalable base track.

5. The method of claim 3 or 4, wherein the identification information of the scalable base track is represented in an sbas track of a track reference type box including track reference information of the at least one sub track.

6. An SVC file having media data which includes at least one scalable layer in each frame, the SVC file comprising:

a scalable base track including at least one scalable layer entry each storing metadata of the at least one scalable layer; and

at least one sub track generated based on the scalable base track, which includes identification information of the scalable layer that is a basis of generation of a sub track among the scalable layers and identification information of the scalable base track instead of the scalable layer entry.

7. The SVC file of claim 6, wherein the identification information of the scalable layer which is the basis of generation of the sub track among the scalable layers and the identification information of the scalable base track is represented in an sgpd (sample group description box) track of the sub track.

8. An SVC file having a plurality of media data which includes scalable base tracks having at least one scalable layer, the SVC file comprising at least one sub track which is generated based on one of the plurality of scalable base tracks in which identification information of the scalable base track that is a basis of generation of a sub track among the plurality of scalable base tracks is stored.

9. The SVC file of claim 8, wherein the identification information of the scalable base track is represented in an sbas track of a track reference type box including track reference information of the sub track.