MULTIMEDIA STREAM DISPLAYING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120236946A1
• Filed: 02/23/2012
• Published: 09/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Skymedi Corporation
• Original Assignee: Skyviia Corporation
• Inventors: CHEN, Yu-Chun, LUO, Po-Hsin, TAI, Yu-Chin, LIN, Kai-Ting, CHIANG, Yen-Yi, KE, Chung-Yi, CHUNG, Tsai-Feng, YANG, Fu-Chun, SUN, Sheng-Yu
• Application Number:
  US13/403,184
• Publication Number:
  US 20120236946A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/240.25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44 Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB

Abstract

A multimedia stream displaying method is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: firstly, a portable decoder unit is embedded between an application layer and a hardware layer. Then, a specific stream format of the hardware layer is inquired. A plurality of multimedia streams from the application layer are received and decoded, and the decoded multimedia streams are encapsulated in the specific stream format. Finally, the encapsulated multimedia streams are transmitted to the hardware layer to be displayed.

Claims

1. A multimedia stream displaying system, comprising:

an application layer configured to provide a plurality of multimedia streams;

a hardware layer having a specific stream format; and

a portable decoder unit, embedded between the application layer and the hardware layer, configured to receive and decode the multimedia streams, and encapsulate the decoded multimedia streams in the specific stream format and then transmit them to the hardware layer;

whereby, the hardware layer displays the packages from the portable decoder unit in a display device.

2. The multimedia stream displaying system of claim 1, further comprising:

a microprocessor configured to control the whole operation of the multimedia stream displaying system; and

a storage unit configured to store the decoded multimedia streams.

3. The multimedia stream displaying system of claim 2, wherein the portable decoder unit comprises;

temporary queue configured to temporarily store the multimedia streams;

wherein, the portable decoder unit adjusts the use of the temporary queue according to decoding rate.

4. The multimedia stream displaying system of claim 1, wherein the portable decoder unit is suitable for various coding formats of the multimedia streams, and suitable for various specific stream formats that the hardware layer has.

5. The multimedia stream displaying system of claim 4, wherein the multimedia streams are coded in the form of MPEG, AVI, MP3, or WAVE.

6. The multimedia stream displaying system of claim 1, wherein the hardware layer comprises a display card or a sound card.

7. The multimedia stream displaying system of claim 2, wherein the microprocessor comprises an ARM9 processor.

8. The multimedia stream displaying system of claim 2, wherein the storage unit comprises an external hard disk, a flash memory, a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), or a static random access memory (SRAM).

9. A multimedia stream displaying method, comprising:

embedding a portable decoder unit between an application layer and a hardware layer;

inquiring a specific stream format of the hardware layer;

receiving and decoding a plurality of multimedia streams from the application layer;

encapsulating the decoded multimedia streams in the specific stream format; and

transmitting the encapsulated multimedia streams to the hardware layer to be displayed.

10. The multimedia stream displaying method of claim 9, further comprising:

adjusting the rate of receiving the multimedia streams according to decoding rate.

11. The multimedia stream displaying method of claim 10, further comprising:

storing the decoded multimedia streams.

12. The multimedia stream displaying method of claim 9, wherein the portable decoder unit is suitable for various coding formats of the multimedia streams, and suitable for various specific stream formats that the hardware layer has.

13. The multimedia stream displaying method of claim 9, wherein the multimedia streams are coded in the form of MPEG, AVI, MP3, or WAVE.

14. The multimedia stream displaying method of claim 9, wherein the hardware layer comprises a display card or a sound card.

15. The multimedia stream displaying method of claim 11, wherein the multimedia streams are stored in an external hard disk, a flash memory, a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), or a static random access memory (SRAM).