Method and terminal for video processing

• US 8,693,840 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2010
• Issued: 04/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Jia, Rong
• Primary Examiner(s): Vaughn, Jr., William C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Adams, Eileen
• Application Number:
  US13/521,063
• Publication Number:
  US 20130011123A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,216 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 386/210
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/4448 for frame-grabbing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

The disclosure discloses a method and a terminal for video processing. The method includes: when a real-time video image receiving terminal plays a real-time image picture, a shortcut for image pre-capture is set; if a user is interested in the picture, the user can click the shortcut for image pre-capture; when receiving an image pre-capture instruction, the terminal suspends the playing of the real-time picture but plays the pictures of a period before the moment of playing the real-time picture, then the user can perform image capture on the pictures played back. With the disclosure, when a user captures an image, the video pictures being played in the terminal are pre-stored, and the video pictures of a period before current time point are presented to the user by slow playback, thus the user can capture the image in easiness, so as not to miss the image that the user wants to capture due to a slow response.

Claims

1. A method for video processing, comprising:

starting image pre-capture processing when a real-time video image receiving terminal plays a real-time video picture and receives an image pre-capture instruction, and controlling the terminal to suspends playing of the real-time picture but to play pictures of a period before a moment of playing the real-time picture for a user to process the pictures played back;

wherein while the real-time video image receiving terminal plays a real-time video picture, real-time video data is stored into an cache area of a memory of the terminal;

wherein the memory is configured as two cache areas, namely, an odd-number cache area and an even-number cache area;

the data are stored into the odd-number cache area and the even-number cache area respectively according to frame headers;

wherein when the user starts the image pre-capture processing, a digital processor of the terminal stops transmitting real-time image data to a display but reads data out from the cache areas;

data in the two cache areas are updated alternatively;

in a first clock period, real-time data is stored into the odd-number cache area, while data is read out from the highest bit address of the odd-number cache area;

in a next clock period, real-time data is stored into the even-number cache area while the odd-number cache area is not updated, and data is still read out from the highest bit address of the odd-number cache area;

in a third clock period, real-time data is stored into the odd-number cache area while the even-number cache area is not updated, and data is read out from the highest bit address of the even-number cache area;

in a fourth clock period, real-time data is stored into the even-number cache area, while data is read out from the highest bit address of the even-number cache area; and

so on;

data of one frame is transmitted to a multimedia processor for two continuous clock periods.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the processing refers to performing image capture on video pictures.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein a first frame data of the video data is stored into a lowest bit address of the odd-number cache area;

a second frame data is stored into a lowest bit address of the even-number cache area;

when a third frame data is received, the first frame data is stored into a higher bit address adjacent to original address of the first frame data and the third frame data is stored into the lowest bit address of the odd-number cache area, and so on;

the even-number cache area applies the same operation, that is, when a fourth frame data is received, the second frame data is stored into a higher bit address adjacent to original address of the second frame data and the fourth frame data is stored into the lowest bit address of the even-number cache area, and so on;

all the real-time data are stored into the lowest bit address of the odd-number cache area or the even-number cache area;

data of other frames are stored in turn into incremental addresses according to frame headers.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the user performs the image capture on the pictures, the terminal stores image data into a specified area of the memory;

after the captured image data is stored, the digital processor stops reading image data from the cache areas but transmits received real-time image data to the display to display, then normal playing is recovered.

5. A terminal, comprising a digital processor, a display and a memory, wherein the digital processor has an image capture control unit;

on one hand, the digital processor receives real-time video data, accomplishes codec processing and then transmits the processed data to the display to display;

on the other hand, the digital processor stores real-time data into the memory of the terminal;

the memory is configured with cache areas;

the image capture control unit, after receiving a video image pre-capture instruction, stops transmitting real-time image data to the display but reads out, from the cache areas, video data of a period before this moment for a user to perform image capture;

wherein the cache areas are configured as an odd-number cache area and an even-number cache area, and data in the two cache areas are updated alternatively;

in a first clock period, real-time data is stored into the odd-number cache area, while data is read out from a highest bit address of the odd-number cache area;

in a next clock period, real-time data is stored into the even-number cache area while the odd-number cache area is not updated, and data is still read out from the highest bit address of the odd-number cache area;

in a third clock period, real-time data is stored into the odd-number cache area while the even-number cache area is not updated, and data is read out from a highest bit address of the even-number cache area;

in a fourth clock period, real-time data is stored into the even-number cache area, while data is read out from the highest bit address of the even-number cache area; and

so on;

data of one frame is transmitted to a multimedia processor for two continuous clock periods.

6. The terminal according to claim 5, wherein after the user performs the image capture on pictures, the image capture control unit of the digital processor stores image data into a specified area of the memory and finishes the image capture processing;

after the captured image data is stored, the image capture control unit of the digital processor responds to an interruption command, stops reading image data from the cache areas but transmits received real-time image data to the display to display, then normal playing is recovered.