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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2016
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Takuto Kimura, Musashino, JP;
Masahiro Yokota, Musashino, JP;
Ken Nishimatsu, Musashino, JP;
Hiroshi Yamamoto, Musashino, JP;
Kei Takeshita, Musashino, JP;
Kazumichi Sato, Musashino, JP;
Taichi Kawano, Musashino, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Abstract
A delivery rate selection device, for selecting a delivery rate when delivering a video image from a video delivery server to a client in a video delivery service. When a delivery rate calculating unit receives from an inquiry source an inquiry of delivery rate for delivering a video image to a given user, a delivery rate calculating unit acquires presence or absence of a playback stall tolerance and presence or absence of an image quality deterioration tolerance of the given user from the user characteristic storage unit, selects an encoding rate from a plurality of encoding rates of the video image according to a combination of the presence or absence of a playback stall tolerance and the presence or absence of an image quality deterioration tolerance of the given user, and returns the selected encoding rate as the delivery rate to the inquiry source.