VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, AND VIDEO TRANSFER METHOD

• US 20100303436A1
• Filed: 01/12/2009
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Innotive Inc, Korea
• Original Assignee: Innotive Inc, Korea
• Inventors: Kim, Kyung Hun, Chung, Jae Sung, Chang, Peter Taehwan, Kim, Dae Hee, Lee, Jun Seok
• Application Number:
  US12/812,121
• Publication Number:
  US 20100303436A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

A video processing system is provided. The video processing system includes: a camera that compresses a captured video and provides the compressed video; a video preparation unit including a playback server that decodes a moving picture compression stream transmitted from the camera and a video processor that processes a video decoded by the playback server; and a display device that displays a video prepared and provided by the video preparation unit. Accordingly, a video captured and compressed by a camera is prepared by decoding, and the video is configured with various output conditions so as to be displayed on a display device. This, in comparison with the convention method in which a required video is decoded and displayed whenever a video display condition changes, the required video can be rapidly displayed within a short period of time, and videos captured by a plurality of cameras can be displayed on one image on a real time basis while maintaining a maximum frame rate of the cameras without restriction of the number of cameras. Therefore, there is an advantage in that a specific video can be zoomed in, zoomed out, or panned on a real time basis at the request of a user, thereby improving a usage rate and an operation response of the video processing system.

Claims

1. A video processing system comprising:

a camera that compresses a captured video and provides the compressed video;

a video preparation unit comprising a playback server that decodes a moving picture compression stream transmitted from the camera and a video processor that processes a video decoded by the playback server; and

a display device that displays a video prepared and provided by the video preparation unit.

2. The video processing system of claim 1, wherein the playback server plays back a plurality of videos captured by a plurality of the cameras by binding the videos.

3. The video processing system of claim 1, wherein the camera is provided in a plural number, the plurality of cameras are connected to at least one hub, and the hub and the playback server are switched by a switching hub.

4. The video processing system of claim 1, wherein the video processor comprises:

a video merge server that reconfigures a binding video provided from a plurality of the playback servers; and

a display server that configures the binding video reconfigured and transmitted by the video merge server into a full video and that delivers a final output video to the display device by configuring the full video according to a specific output condition.

5. The video processing system of claim 4, wherein the video merge server is provided in a plural number, and a multiple-merge server is provided between the display server and the video merge server to process a video of each video merge server.

6. The video processing system of claim 4, wherein the display server delivers the specific output condition requested by a user to the video merge server, and the video merge server reconfigures a video conforming to the specific output condition from the binding video played back by the playback server according to the specific output condition and then delivers the reconfigured video to the display server.

7. A video processing method comprising the steps of:

compressing a video captured by a camera and providing the compressed video;

decoding the compressed video;

preparing a full video by reconfiguring the decoded video according to a specific output condition; and

outputting a video conforming to the specific output condition from the full video as a final output video.

8. The video processing method of claim 7, wherein, in the decoding step, a plurality of videos captured by a plurality of the cameras are decoded and thereafter the plurality of videos are played back by binding the videos.

9. The video processing method of claim 7, wherein, in the preparing step, if the video conforming to the specific output condition is included in the full video, the video conforming to the specific output condition is transmitted by being selected from the full video, and if the video conforming to the specific output condition is not included in the full video, the full video is reconfigured to include the video conforming to the specific output condition among videos which have been decoded in the decoding step, and the video conforming to the specific output condition is transmitted by being selected from the reconfigured full video.

10. The video processing method of claim 9, wherein the specific output condition relates to a video captured by a camera selected by a user from the plurality of cameras, or relates to a zoom-in, zoom-out, or panning state of a video captured by the selected camera.

11. A video processing method, wherein videos captured by a plurality of cameras are compressed and transmitted, the videos compressed and transmitted by the plurality of cameras are decoded and the plurality of videos are continuously played back during a final output is achieved, the plurality of videos are configured into a full video according to a specific output condition with a range blow a maximum resolution captured by the cameras, and a video conforming to the specific output condition is selected from the full video to output the selected video.

12. The video processing method of claim 11, wherein, when the specific output condition changes, the video conforming to the changed output condition is output by being selected from the full video.

13. The video processing method of claim 11, wherein, when the specific output condition changes and the video conforming to the changed output condition is not included in the full video, the full video is reconfigured from the played-back video, and the video conforming to the changed output condition is output by being selected from the reconfigured video.

14. A method of transferring a video signal between a transmitting server and a receiving server for real time video processing,

wherein the transmitting server plays back and outputs a plurality of input videos into a decoded video by using a graphic card,

wherein the receiving server obtains the decoded video output from the transmitting server by using a capture card, and

wherein the transmitting server transmits signals of the decoded video to the receiving server by using a dedicated line.

15. The method of claim 14,

wherein the plurality of videos input to the transmitting server are combination of coded video which are respectively captured by a plurality of cameras, and

wherein the receiving server receives signals of decoded videos from a plurality of the transmitting servers.

16. The method of claim 15,

wherein the transmitting server is a playback server, and the receiving server is a video merge server, and

wherein the video merge server transforms the decoded videos input from the plurality of transmitting servers into video signals combined in any format according to a request signal input from an external part of the video merge server and transmits the transformed signals to a display server.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the video merge server outputs the video signals combined in any format by being played back into decoded signals, and the display server obtains the decoded videos output from the video merge server by using the capture card.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the decoded videos received by the receiving server are videos with a high resolution obtained by the plurality of cameras.