Generation of video transitions on an auxiliary bus using a video switcher
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1. A method in a video-switching architecture including a plurality of video processing units said method comprising:
- receiving a selection for a new video source for an auxiliary bus output to which a transition is desired from a current video source, wherein the desired transition has a defined duration;
identifying a video processing unit that is not contributing towards video processing;
routing said new video source and said current video source to said identified video processing unit that is not contributing towards video processing;
routing an output of said identified video processing unit to the auxiliary bus output of said architecture;
performing a transitional effect between said current video source and said new video source using said identified video processing unit; and
upon completion of the transitional effect, routing said new video source to said auxiliary bus output of said architecture bypassing said identified video processing unit and releasing the identified video processing unit for use in performing a video effect for a different output.
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Abstract
A mix-effects bank architecture of a video switcher having a plurality of video processing units; and an internal switcher routing matrix. The internal switcher routing matrix routing, a video source currently providing a video feed to an auxiliary output and a desired new source for the auxiliary output to a video processing unit that is not contributing towards video processing and routing an output of said video processing unit to said auxiliary output. The video processing unit that is not contributing towards video processing performs a transitional effect for the auxiliary output.
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1. A method in a video-switching architecture including a plurality of video processing units said method comprising:
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receiving a selection for a new video source for an auxiliary bus output to which a transition is desired from a current video source, wherein the desired transition has a defined duration; identifying a video processing unit that is not contributing towards video processing; routing said new video source and said current video source to said identified video processing unit that is not contributing towards video processing; routing an output of said identified video processing unit to the auxiliary bus output of said architecture; performing a transitional effect between said current video source and said new video source using said identified video processing unit; and upon completion of the transitional effect, routing said new video source to said auxiliary bus output of said architecture bypassing said identified video processing unit and releasing the identified video processing unit for use in performing a video effect for a different output. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A video-switching architecture comprising:
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a plurality of video processing units, wherein the video switching architecture is configured to identify identifying one of said video processing units, which is not contributing towards video processing; and an internal switcher routing matrix, said internal switcher routing matrix (200) routing, on an auxiliary bus, a new video source and a current video source to said identified video processing unit that is not contributing towards video processing and utilizing said identified video processing unit to perform a transitional effect, wherein the transitional effect has a defined duration, and further wherein, upon completion of the transition effect, said internal switcher routing matrix routes said new video source to an auxiliary bus output of said architecture bypassing said identified video processing unit and the identified video processing unit is released for use in performing a video effect for a different output. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A video switcher having primary outputs and auxiliary outputs comprising:
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a plurality of video processing units; and an internal switcher routing matrix, said internal switcher routing matrix (200) routing, on an auxiliary bus, a video source currently providing a video feed to an auxiliary output and a desired new source to a video processing unit that is not contributing towards video processing and routing an output of said video processing unit to said auxiliary output, wherein the video processing unit that is not contributing towards video processing performs the transitional effect, wherein the transitional effect has a defined duration and upon completion of the transitional effect, the internal switcher unit routes said new video source directly to said auxiliary bus output of said architecture bypassing said identified video processing unit and the identified video processing unit is released for use in performing a video effect for a different output. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24)
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