Exposing media processing features

• US 9,426,439 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2013
• Issued: 08/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Wang, Changliang, Lin, Yunbiao, Venkataraman, Radhakrishnan
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HUY THANH
• Application Number:
  US13/796,035
• Publication Number:
  US 20140270703A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,260 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/51 Motion estimation or motion compensation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4432 Powering on the client, e.g. bootstrap loading using setup parameters being stored locally or received from the server resetting in general G06F1/14; program loading or initiating in general G06F9/445; bootstrapping in general G06F9/4401; secure boots of computer platforms G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4436 Power management, e.g. shutting down unused components of the receiver power management in computer systems G06F1/3203; hibernate or awake process in computer systems G06F9/4418
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/79 Processing of colour television signals in connection with recording

Abstract

An apparatus and a system are described herein. The apparatus includes logic to render a video. The apparatus also includes logic to adjust a feature of a video in response to a power consumption, wherein the logic to adjust a feature of a video is integrated into an operating system of the apparatus.

Claims

1. An apparatus for exposing media processing features, the apparatus comprising:

logic to render a video on a device, wherein the device comprises a graphics driver;

logic to enable an add-on framework to provide access to a variable length decoding feature of the video embedded in the graphics driver, wherein the add-on framework comprises an SDK Add-on, an IMEdiaPlayerService, or a Common User Interface (CUI), wherein the add-on framework accesses a coder-decoder (codec) within codec libraries to encode and decode the feature of the video embedded in the graphics driver, wherein the add-on framework exposes the encoded and decoded feature of the video embedded in the graphics driver; and

logic to adjust the variable length decoding feature of the video embedded in the graphics driver in response to a power consumption when the apparatus renders the video.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the logic to adjust the feature of the video embedded in the graphics driver is an application programming interface (API) that enables an application of the apparatus to adjust the feature of the video embedded in the graphics driver in response to the power consumption.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising logic to determine a time of remaining power of a battery of the apparatus and to adjust the feature of the video embedded in the graphics driver such that the video completely renders within the time of remaining power of the battery of the apparatus.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising logic for a user to adjust the feature of the video embedded in the graphics driver by overriding the logic to adjust the feature of the video embedded in the graphics driver based on power consumption.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising logic for a control panel wherein a user can adjust the feature of the video embedded in the graphics driver.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

logic to determine a length of time to render the video embedded in the graphics driver completely;

logic to determine a power status of a battery;

logic to determine the power consumption from the battery for the feature of the video embedded in the graphics driver;

logic to calculate the length of time that the video embedded in the graphics driver can be rendered using the feature based on the power consumption from the battery and the power status of the battery; and

logic to disable the feature so that the video embedded in the graphics driver may be completely rendered.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein logic is integrated into an operating system, wherein the operating system is an Android operating system.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the power consumption is reduced when the feature of the video is modified or disabled.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the feature is a video processing feature.

23. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the feature is embedded in a central processing unit, a graphics processing unit, or graphics hardware.

10. A system for exposing media processing features, comprising:

a processor that is configured to execute stored instructions and a storage device that stores instructions, wherein the storage device includes processor executable code that, when executed by the processor, is configured to;

perform a media function on the system, wherein the system comprises a graphics driver, and wherein a variable length decoding feature is embedded in the graphics driver;

access the variable length decoding feature of the media function embedded in the graphics driver using an add-on framework, wherein the add-on framework comprises an SDK Add-on, an IMEdiaPlayerService, or a Common User Interface (CUI), wherein the add-on framework accesses a coder-decoder (codec) within codec libraries to encode and decode the variable length decoding feature of the media function embedded in the graphics driver, wherein the add-on framework exposes the encoded and decoded feature of the media function embedded in the graphics driver;

determine a power status of the system; and

adjust the variable length decoding features of the media function embedded in the graphics driver based on the power status of the system.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more features embedded in the graphics driver are video processing features.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein determining the power status of the system includes a determination of a time of remaining power of a battery of the system.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein a command user interface provides settings that a user can modify in order to adjust the one or more features of the media function embedded in the graphics driver based on the power status of the system.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein a power control service obtains a power consumption status for each function or component of the system.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein a video playback scheduler determines if the media function can be completed based on the power status of the system.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the system performs the media function in a power aware fashion.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more features embedded in the graphics driver include at least one of a frame rate conversion (FRC), image stabilization, video scaling, composition, and Hue Saturation Brightness Contrast (HSBC), any other processing that modifies the media function, or any combination thereof.

24. The system of claim 10, wherein the feature is embedded in a central processing unit, a graphics processing unit, or graphics hardware.

25. The system of claim 10, wherein the feature is embedded in a central processing unit, a graphics processing unit, or graphics hardware.

18. A system for exposing media processing features, comprising:

a power control service, wherein the power control service is used to collect the power consumption status of a component of the system; and

a video playback scheduler, wherein the video playback scheduler calculates all possible solutions to ensure the system renders video in its entirety using and modifying a variable length decoding processing feature embedded in a graphics driver of the system using an additional framework of the system.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein a graphics rendering pipeline sends scalable quality control options to the video playback scheduler.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein a command user interface modifies the one or more video processing features embedded in the graphics driver of the system.

21. A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium comprising code to direct a processor to:

perform a media function on a device that comprises a graphics driver, wherein a motion compensation feature is embedded in the graphics driver;

enable an add-on framework to provide access to the motion compensation feature of the media function embedded in the graphics driver, wherein the add-on framework exposes the motion compensation feature of the media function embedded in the graphics driver;

determine a power status of a system; and

adjust the motion compensation feature of the media function based on the power status of the system.

22. The computer-readable medium of claim 21, wherein the media function is a video playback function, and the one or more features of the media function embedded in the graphics driver are video processing features.

26. The computer-readable medium of claim 21, wherein the feature is embedded in a central processing unit, a graphics processing unit, or graphics hardware.