Sri International

Peter Demers

Vincent Paragano

Mark Alan Sartor

Nikhil Gagvani

Arkady Kopansky

Philip Miller

Michael Kiernan

Arthur Robert Pope

Daniel Clement Williams

A variety of applications involve transmission of video data in real time. However, bandwidth limitations may result in degradation of the quality of the transmitted video. To address such limitations, a video stream may be limited to 'regions of interest' within each frame of the video stream. This can be accomplished by setting areas outside of the regions of interest to an a priori known color or 'blanking' color, and the resulting &#x2018;blanked&#x2019; video stream can be compressed and transmitted without extensive modifications to existing transmission apparatus. The original video can be reconstituted by superimposing the received region-of-interest video data onto a background image of the environment that contains the regions-of-interest. The background image can be satellite imagery or other stored imagery that matches the perspective of the video stream. Geographical tag data can be used to superimpose the region-of-interest video data onto the background image.

Efficient transmission of video over low bandwidth channels

A system and method for preparing for distribution to, distributing to and/or use by one or more devices broadband data associated with intelligence information garnered from an aerial vehicle ('AV'): The method may include obtaining from sensors coupled to the AV video depicting an area of surveillance, obtaining metadata associated with the video, aligning, temporally, the video and metadata, using reference information to align, spatially, the video and metadata, forming for distribution to the at least one device enhanced metadata as a function of the video, metadata and reference information, wherein the enhanced metadata is operable to enable displaying at the devices at least a portion of the video, whereby after receiving a distribution of the enhanced metadata, the devices are operable to display such portion of the video.

Method and apparatus for capture and distribution of broadband data

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