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Processing and managing pictures at the concatenation of two video streams

  • US 8,155,207 B2
  • Filed: 01/09/2009
  • Issued: 04/10/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • receiving a video stream in a transport stream, the video stream comprising a plurality of compressed pictures; and

    receiving information in the video stream, wherein the information includes plural data fields, the received information comprising;

    a first data field corresponding to a location in the video stream of a potential splice point in the video stream, wherein a value of the first data field identifies a location in the video stream after the location of the received information in the video stream;

    a second data field corresponding to decompressed pictures yet to be output (DPYTBO) by a video decoder at the identified potential splice point (IPSP) when the video decoder decompresses the video stream, wherein the value of the second data field is a number corresponding to the DPYTBO by the video decoder at the IPSP; and

    a third data field corresponding to pictures with contiguous output times (WCOT), wherein the value of the third field corresponds to a set of pictures WCOT of the DPYTBO by the video decoder at the IPSP.

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