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Systems and methods for playing digital video in reverse and fast forward modes

  • US 6,970,640 B2
  • Filed: 05/14/2001
  • Issued: 11/29/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a system that includes an MPEG decoder and has access to a stored MPEG stream that includes I-frames, P-frames, and B-frames, a method for displaying the stored MPEG stream in a reverse mode without requiring simultaneous buffering of all frames between temporally adjacent I-frames, comprising:

  • an act of buffering two temporally adjacent I-frames, including a first I-frame and a second I-frame that is temporally later in the stored MPEG stream;

    based on the first I-frame, an act of iteratively reconstructing and buffering P-frames until a particular P-frame that is temporally adjacent to the second I-frame is reconstructed and buffered;

    an act of displaying video data encoded in the second I-frame;

    an act of reconstructing and displaying video data encoded in each B-frame between the reconstructed particular P-frame and the second I-frame in reverse order;

    an act of displaying video data encoded in the reconstructed particular P-frame; and

    an act of iteratively reconstructing other P-frames and B-frames between the first I-frame and the particular reconstructed P-frame to continue displaying video data encoded in frames in the reverse sequence compared to the original sequence without simultaneously buffering all frames between the first I-frame and the second I-frame.

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