METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING COMPRESSION FOR AN INCOMING VIDEO SIGNAL IN AN INTERACTIVE TELEVISION SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A method of adaptive data compression in a distributed data processing system, comprising:
- receiving an indication to store a digital data stream at a client device;
determining a variable data reduction factor corresponding to the data stream; and
storing the data stream.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for applying a variable compression factor to an incoming video stream in an STB. An increased amount of video may be stored within a PVR or disk on a STB by reducing the data storage requirements of incoming video based on available storage space and the type and size of the incoming video bit stream. Included are real time compression, or reduction in storage space requirements, by various data reduction methodologies including removing bits from the incoming video stream to reduce the amount of storage required to store the video stream. A background data reduction or compression technique is also provided wherein the incoming video stream is stored and data is reduced or further compressed at a later time to reduce data storage requirements.
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2 Claims
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1. A method of adaptive data compression in a distributed data processing system, comprising:
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receiving an indication to store a digital data stream at a client device; determining a variable data reduction factor corresponding to the data stream; and storing the data stream.
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2-32. -32. (canceled)
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