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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2016
Applicant:

Arris Enterprises Llc, Suwanee, GA (US);

Inventors:

Kevin S. Wirick, Olivenhain, CA (US);

Ajay Luthra, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Suwanee, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/274 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 19/59 (2014.01); H04N 19/12 (2014.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 19/40 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/00007 (2013.01); H04N 19/12 (2014.11); H04N 19/40 (2014.11); H04N 19/59 (2014.11); H04N 21/2353 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/274 (2013.01); G11B 2020/00072 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of video encoding is provided to reduce the cost of network DVR storage by building on a concept of Just-In Time (JIT) transcoding which eliminates storing all formats of content in a DVR. A super-encoding procedure is provided that encodes a high resolution format, such as HEVC, while metadata is provided for lower resolution formats, such as MPEG4. The metadata can include items like motion vectors to reduce the computational costs during JIT transcoding. The super-encoded data is stored in memory of the DVR. High resolution encoded data is read directly out of the DVR memory, while lower resolutions are transcoded from the DVR memory data using the metadata to increase efficiency.


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