COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIDEO CONTENT TO A TARGET SYSTEM

• US 20100049832A1
• Filed: 08/21/2008
• Published: 02/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Comverse Limited (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Comverse Limited (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: PELEG, Gal, Sasson, Michael, Berman, Ori
• Application Number:
  US12/195,620
• Publication Number:
  US 20100049832A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23406 involving management of server-side video buffer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234309 by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 or from Quicktime to Realvideo conversion of standards in analog television systems H04N7/01
• 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 21/64322 IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Abstract

A method for providing video content to a target system, the method including: acquiring multiple groups of frames from a stream of frames; processing each group of frames out of the multiple groups of frames to provide a video file; and transmitting the video file to the target system; wherein the acquiring, processing and transmitting partially overlap.

Claims

1. A method for providing video content to a target system, the method comprising:

acquiring multiple groups of frames from a stream of frames;

processing each group of frames out of the multiple groups of frames to provide a video file; and

transmitting the video file to the target system;

wherein the acquiring, processing and transmitting partially overlap.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein each group of frames is characterized by a display rate;

and wherein the transmitting is responsive to a target rate that is substantially slower than the display rate.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the processing of each group of frames is followed by replacing a previous video with the provided video file in a video files buffer, and wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting video files from the video files buffer to the target system.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the replacing comprises replacing a previous video file that was not transmitted to the target system with the provided video file.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring comprises acquiring display information.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring comprises acquiring each frame in response to a frame buffer reading instruction.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the processing of at least one group of frames comprises analyzing colors of at least one frame of the group of frames.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising determining a video file to be transmitted, wherein the transmitting comprises selectively transmitting video files to the target system in response to the determined video file.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising determining if available information should be acquired, wherein the acquiring is responsive to a result of the determining.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising grouping frames into multiple sequential groups of frames in response to timing information.

11. The method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving, from an external system, input that is influential for the generating of the stream of frames.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising generating the stream of frames.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring comprises acquiring multiple groups of frames from multiple streams of frames, wherein each group of frames is acquired from a single stream of frames, and wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the video files to at least one target system.

14. A system for providing video content to a target system, the system comprises:

a frame acquiring module, adapted to acquire multiple groups of frames from a stream of frames;

a processing module, adapted to process each group of frames out of the multiple groups of frames to provide a video file; and

a video transmission interface, adapted to transmit the video files to the target system;

wherein the acquiring, processing and transmitting partially overlap.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein each group of frames is characterized by a display rate;

and wherein the video transmission interface is adapted to transmit the video files to the target system in response to a target rate that is substantially slower than the display rate.

16. The system according to claim 14, wherein the processing module is adapted to replace, following the processing of each group of frames, a previous video with the provided video file in a video files buffer;

and wherein the video transmission interface is adapted to transmit video files from the video files buffer to the target system.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the processing module is further adapted to replace a previous video file that was not transmitted to the target system with the provided video file.

18. The system according to claim 14, wherein the frame acquiring module is further adapted to acquire display information.

19. The system according to claim 14, wherein the processing module is further adapted to analyze colors of at least one frame of a group of frames when processing the group of frames.

20. The system according to claim 14, further adapted to determine a video file to be transmitted, wherein the video transmission interface is adapted to selectively transmit video files to the target system in response to results of the determining.

21. The system according to claim 14, further adapted to receive, from an external system input that is influential for the generating of the stream of frames.

22. A computer readable medium having computer-readable code embodied therein for providing video content, the computer-readable code comprising instructions for:

acquiring multiple groups of frames from a stream of frames;

processing each group of frames out of the multiple groups of frames to provide a video file; and

transmitting the video files to the target system;

wherein the stages of acquiring, processing and transmitting partially overlap.

23. The computer readable medium according to claim 22, wherein each group of frames is characterized by a display rate;

and wherein the instructions for transmitting further comprise instructions for transmitting in response to a target rate that is substantially slower than the display rate.

24. The computer readable medium according to claim 22, wherein the computer-readable code further comprises instructions for replacing, following the processing of each group of frames, a previous video with the provided video file in a video files buffer;

and wherein the instructions for transmitting further comprise instructions for transmitting video files from the video files buffer to the target system.

25. The computer readable medium according to claim 24, wherein the instructions for replacing further comprise instructions for replacing a previous video file that was not transmitted to the target system with the provided video file.

26. The computer readable medium according to claim 22, wherein the instructions for acquiring comprised in the computer-readable code further comprise instructions for acquiring display information.

27. The computer readable medium according to claim 22, wherein the instructions for processing further comprise instructions for analyzing, during the processing of at least one group of frames, colors of at least one frame of the group of frames.

28. The computer readable medium according to claim 22, wherein the computer-readable code further comprises instructions for grouping frames into multiple sequential groups of frames in response to timing information.

29. The computer readable medium according to claim 22, wherein the computer-readable code further comprises instructions for receiving, from an external system, input that is influential for the generating of the stream of frames.

30. The computer readable medium according to claim 22, wherein the computer-readable code further comprises instructions for generating the stream of frames.

31. The computer readable medium according to claim 22, wherein the computer-readable code further comprises instructions for determining a video file to be transmitted, and wherein the instructions for transmitting comprises instructions for selectively transmitting video files to the target system in response to results of the determining.