INTERFACE FOR USE WITH A VIDEO COMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING DIFFERENCING AND CLUSTERING

• US 20130104181A1
• Filed: 10/19/2012
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hendricks Corp. Pte. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Organizational Strategies International Pte. Ltd.
• Inventors: HART, Stephen M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,990,877 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/116
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6236 between heterogeneous systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2113 Multi-level security, e.g. mandatory access control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/503 involving temporal prediction adaptive coding with adaptive selection between spatial and temporal predictive coding H04N19/107; adaptive coding with adaptive selection among a plurality of temporal predictive coding modes H04N19/109
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/258 Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics, processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data arrangements for services using the result on the distributing side of broadcast systems H04H60/66; profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/30

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a system and method having a common interface to manage and integrate secure information traversing a network with disparate domains. The system and method are capable of rapidly taking external data sources (for example, systems, databases, streams, repositories, websites, etc.) and fusing them under a mediated meta-data layer that allows for data mining, manual and automated analysis and various visualization capabilities in a single application. The system allow for the capability of using data sources, and making secure and appropriate visualization and interoperability functions available in a single portal or interface.

Claims

1. A system for sharing secure information between servers in a network, comprising:

a plurality of servers, each of the servers having a disparate domain and classification level, wherein each of the servers is connected to a respective network; and

a common interface to manage and integrate the plurality of servers using a single source, whereby the secure information traverses the system using video compression to transmit, receive and display data in a secure manner at a single portal.

2. The system for sharing secure information according to claim 1, wherein the system includes a processor that performs the video compression by:

receiving a current video frame from a video input;

calculating differences between the current video frame and a previous video frame; and

processing the calculated differences to determine clusters of image data for compression.

3. The system for sharing secure information according to claim 2, further comprising:

scanning the clusters of image data to locate outer rim nodes surrounding the cluster of image data; and

determining unprocessed difference points in the image data; and

when the unprocessed difference points are found, marking the points as outer rim nodes surrounding the cluster of image data, and

when all of the unprocessed difference points have been found, compressing outer rim data representing the outer rim nodes.

4. The system for sharing secure information according to claim 3, further comprising:

eliminating redundant rim nodes;

scanning along an interior of the outer rim nodes to detect adjacent internal rims;

scanning the outer rim nodes and adjacent rim nodes to locate unfilled internal points;

recursively filling unfilled internal points and color capture; and

locating floating internal rims using the recursive fill.

5. The system for sharing secure information according to claim 4, further comprising:

placing a sum of the current video frame and a future video frame captured colors in blocks;

placing a difference of the current video frame and the future video frame capture colors in blocks; and

compressing the blocks.

6. The system for sharing secure information according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of servers includes a first server classified as an unclassified level, a second server classified as a secret level and a third server classified as a top secret level.

7. A method for sharing secure information between servers in a network, comprising:

connecting a plurality of servers to a respective network, each of the servers having a disparate domain and classification level; and

managing and integrating the plurality of servers using a common interface, whereby the secure information traverses the network using video compression to transmit, receive and display data in a secure manner at a single portal.

8. The method for sharing secure information according to claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a current video frame from a video input;

calculating differences between the current video frame and a previous video frame; and

processing the calculated differences to determine clusters of image data for compression.

9. The method for sharing secure information according to claim 8, further comprising:

scanning the clusters of image data to locate outer rim nodes surrounding the cluster of image data; and

determining unprocessed difference points in the image data; and

when the unprocessed difference points are found, marking the points as outer rim nodes surrounding the cluster of image data, and

when all of the unprocessed difference points have been found, compressing outer rim data representing the outer rim nodes.

10. The method for sharing secure information according to claim 9, further comprising:

eliminating redundant rim nodes;

scanning along an interior of the outer rim nodes to detect adjacent internal rims;

scanning the outer rim nodes and adjacent rim nodes to locate unfilled internal points;

recursively filling unfilled internal points and color capture; and

locating floating internal rims using the recursive fill.

11. The method for sharing secure information according to claim 10, further comprising:

placing a sum of the current video frame and a future video frame captured colors in blocks;

placing a difference of the current video frame and the future video frame capture colors in blocks; and

compressing the blocks.

12. The method for sharing secure information according to claim 7, wherein the plurality of servers includes a first server classified as an unclassified level, a second server classified as a secret level and a third server classified as a top secret level.