Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding

• US 8,255,437 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2006
• Issued: 08/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Tae Hyeon, Cha, Hyouk Jean
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHONG H
• Application Number:
  US12/083,340
• Publication Number:
  US 20090138512A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,146 Days
• Field of Search: 707/736, 707/802, 707/913, 707/915, 707/916, 707/917, 707/999.107, 707/821, 707/955
• US Class Current: 707/821
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23412 for generating or manipulating the scene composition of objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/85406 involving a specific file format, e.g. MP4 format

Abstract

There is provided a multimedia data decoding method and apparatus. The decoding method includes generating a data area comprising a first media data area, a second media data area, and a third media data area, and generating a media information area comprising first, second, and third track areas each corresponding to the first, second, and third media data areas. The multimedia data decoding method and apparatus has an effect of being capable of constructing a slide show by only a small amount of multimedia data. Thus, a time taken to process and transmit the multimedia data can reduce.

Claims

1. An encoding method comprising:

generating a file type area having file format information;

generating a data area comprising image data and audio data;

generating a media information area comprising a slide show area and an audio track area corresponding to the image data and audio data, respectively, the slide show area including a media area and a track meta area, the media area of the slide show area including reproduction duration information, position information, and size information on the image data, each reproduction duration information, position information, and size information in the media area of the slide show area being allocated for the image data; and

constructing the generated file type area, the media information area, and the data area as one multimedia data file, and outputting the constructed multimedia data file;

wherein the image data and audio data in the data area are dependent on one timeline,

all images that are used in the slide show presentation are arranged in a single track, wherein the track meta area of the slide show area and the audio track area includes meta information on the image data and the audio data, respectively,

the track meta area of the slide show area and the audio track area include an XML format data on the meta information,

the media information area further comprises a meta area including an animation area comprising at least one of grouping information on animation effect, opacity effect information, size information on an image to which the animation effect is to be applied, and geometrical transform effect information,

the animation area is described using Light-weight Application Scene Representation (LASeR),

the image data has a plurality of Joint Photograph Experts Group (JPEG) image data, and

the animation effect is applied to the JPEG images.

2. The encoding method of claim 1, wherein the audio data has MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3) audio data.

3. The encoding method of claim 1, wherein the data area further comprises text data, and a character string in the text data is distinguished in a line unit.

4. The encoding method of claim 1, wherein the data area further comprises text data, and the slide show area comprises the timing information on the media data comprised in the audio data and text data.

5. The encoding method of claim 1, wherein there exists the timing information on each of the plurality of media data.

6. A decoding method comprising:

receiving multimedia data which comprises a file type area having file format information, a data area including image data and audio data, and a media information area including a slide show area and an audio track area corresponding to the image data and the audio data, respectively, the slide show area including a media area and a track meta area, the media area of the slide show area including reproduction duration information, position information, and size information on the image data, each reproduction duration information, position information, and size information in the media area of the slide show area being allocated for the image data;

parsing the multimedia data, the media information area of the multimedia data being parsed first;

extracting timing information on the media data from the media area included in the media information area;

extracting the image data and the audio data to be reproduced depending on the extracted timing information; and

reproducing the extracted image data and audio data using the extracted timing information,

wherein the image data and the audio data in the data area are dependent on one timeline,

all images that are used in the slide show presentation are arranged in a single track,

the track meta area of the slide show area and the audio track area include meta information on the image data and the audio data, respectively,

the track meta area of the slide show area and the audio track area include an XML format data on the meta information,

the media information area further comprises a meta area including an animation area comprising at least one of grouping information on animation effect, opacity effect information, size information on an image to which the animation effect is to be applied, and geometrical transform effect information,

the animation area is described using Light-weight Application Scene Representation (LASeR),

the image data has a plurality of data has a plurality of Joint Photograph Experts Group (JPEG) image data, and

the animation effect is applied to the JPEG images.

7. The decoding method of claim 6, wherein the second media data area MP3 audio data.

8. The decoding method of claim 6, wherein the data area further comprises text data, and a character string in the text data is distinguished in a line unit.

9. The decoding method of claim 6, wherein there exists the timing information on each of the plurality of media data.