Stream data reception/reproduction device and stream data reception/reproduction method

• US 8,718,452 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2005
• Issued: 05/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 12, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Terada, Toru, Ehara, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thai
• Assistant Examiner(s): HASAN, SYED Y
• Application Number:
  US11/632,556
• Publication Number:
  US 20070237495A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,218 Days
• Field of Search: 386/343, 386/355, 386/E5.052, 341/61, 370/413, 370/278, 370/329, 370/352, 370/354, 370/503, 379/88.14, 379/88.22, 704/207, 704/217, 704/503, 704/E21.017, G9B/20.014, G9B/27.002, G9B/27.019, G9B/27.029, 340/505, 340/572.4, 340/572.7, 340/E10.31, 340/E10.4, 340/E10.41, 340/E10.5, 343/878, 348/525, 348/533, 348/E5.017, 348/32, 348/130, 348/E5.085, 348/E7.085, 375/259, 375/260, 709/224
• US Class Current: 386/343
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/005 Correction of errors induced by the transmission channel, if related to the coding algorithm
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/167 Audio streaming, i.e. formatting and decoding of an encoded audio signal representation into a data stream for transmission or storage purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS

Abstract

There is disclosed a stream data reception/reproduction device capable of suppressing deterioration of quality of stream data reproduced even when the stream data is received via an IP network or the like in which the packet arrival timing and the order are not guaranteed. In this device, a reproduction speed control unit (107) sets various conditions in accordance with the value of the synchronization difference reported from a synchronization difference calculation unit (102). Only when the set conditions are satisfied, the speed of reproduction of a frame decompressed and inputted from a decoding unit (105) is adjusted. The reproduction speed control unit (107) interpolates a predetermined amount of sample data into the frame or decimates it from the frame when adjusting the reproduction speed.

Claims

1. A stream data reception/playback apparatus, comprising:

a receiving section that receives packetized stream data;

a receiving buffer that stores a frame group of the received stream data;

a frame detection section that is configured to detect whether the frame group of the stored data stream includes a frame to be played back;

a synchronization difference calculation section that calculates a synchronization difference between an internal clock of a transmitting side and an internal clock of a receiving side from the received data stream; and

a playback speed control section that adjusts a playback speed of the stream data when the frame detection section does not detect a frame to be played back and an absolute value of the synchronization difference is equal to or greater than a first threshold value, wherein the first threshold is a positive value corresponding to an amount of sample data to be interpolated or decimated by the playback speed control section.

2. The stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the frame detection section is configured to detect the frame to be played back from the frame group of the stored stream data and to determine whether the detected frame is a silence frame; and

the playback speed control section adjusts the playback speed of the stream data when the frame to be played back is not detected in the frame detection section or when the detected frame to be played back is a silence frame.

3. The stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the frame detection section is configured to detect the frame to be played back from the frame group of the stored stream data and to determine whether the detected frame is a silence frame or whether significance of the detected frame is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; and

the playback speed control section adjusts the playback speed of the stream data, when the frame to be played hack is not detected in the frame detection section, or when the detected frame to be played back is a silence frame, or when the significance of the detected frame is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.

4. The stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the frame detection section determines the significance of the detected frame based on the number of bits of the frame.

5. A communication terminal apparatus, comprising the stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 1.

6. A base station apparatus, comprising the stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 1.

7. The stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the synchronization difference calculation section calculates the synchronization difference from a time stamp of the received packetized stream data.

8. The stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the playback speed control section interpolates the sample data, the amount of the sample data corresponding to the first threshold value, to a frame when the synchronization difference is a positive value equal to or greater than the first threshold value, and decimates the sample data, the amount of the sample data corresponding to the first threshold value, from a frame when the synchronization difference is a negative value equal to or less than a negative value of the first threshold value.

9. The stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the absolute value of the synchronization difference is equal to or greater than a second threshold value which is greater than the first threshold value, the playback speed control section adjusts the playback speed regardless of whether or not the frame to be played hack is detected by the frame detection section.

10. The stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the playback speed control section interpolates sample data, an amount of the sample data corresponding to the second threshold value, to a frame when the synchronization difference is a positive value equal to or greater than the second threshold value, and decimates the sample data, the amount of the sample data corresponding to the second threshold value, from a frame when the synchronization difference is a negative value equal to or less than a negative value of the second threshold value.

11. The stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 9, wherein:

the frame detection section is configured to decide whether or not the detected frame is a silence frame; and

the playback speed control section further adjusts the playback speed of the stream data when the frame which is detected in the frame detection section and which is played back is the silence frame.

12. The stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the playback speed control section interpolates sample data, an amount of the sample data corresponding to a third threshold value, to a frame when the synchronization difference is a positive value equal to or greater than the third threshold value which is greater than the first threshold value and is less than the second threshold value, and decimates the sample data, the amount of the sample data corresponding to the third threshold value, from a frame when the synchronization difference is a negative value greater than a negative value of the second threshold value and is equal to or less than a negative value of the third threshold value.

13. The stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 9, wherein:

the frame detection section is further configured to measure a number of bits of the detected frame, and

the playback speed control section further decides whether the measured number of bits is great or small and adjusts the playback speed of the stream data when the number of bits is small.

14. The stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the playback speed control section interpolates sample data, an amount of the sample data corresponding to a fourth threshold value, to a frame when the synchronization difference is a positive value equal to or greater than the fourth threshold value which is greater than the first threshold value and less than the second threshold value, and decimates the sample data, the amount of the sample data corresponding to the fourth threshold value, from a frame when the synchronization difference is a negative value that is greater than a negative value of the second threshold value and is equal to or less than a negative value of the fourth threshold value.

15. A communication system comprising:

a stream data transmitting apparatus; and

a stream data reception/playback apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the receiving section of the stream data reception/playback apparatus receives the packetized stream data transmitted from the stream data transmitting apparatus through a network.

16. A stream data reception/playback method, comprising:

receiving packetized stream data;

storing a frame group of the received stream data in a receiving buffer;

detecting whether the frame group includes a frame to be played back;

calculating a synchronization difference between an internal clock of a transmitting side and an internal clock of a receiving side from the received packetized data stream; and

adjusting a playback speed of the stream data when the detecting step detects no frame to be played back and an absolute value of the synchronization difference is equal to or greater than a first threshold, wherein the first threshold is a positive value corresponding to an amount of sample data to be interpolated or decimated for adjusting the playback speed of the stream data.

17. The stream data reception/playback method according to claim 16, wherein the synchronization difference is calculated from a time stamp of the received packetized stream data.