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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1995
Sheau-Bao Ng, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Mikhail Tsinberg, Riverdale, NY (US);
Masaru Sakurai, Yokohama, JP;
David Lehmann, Mount Holly, NJ (US);
Jay Yogeshwar, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Faramarz Azadegan, Waltham, MA (US);
Teiichi Ichikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroaki Unno, Ichikawa, JP;
Hideki Mimura, Yokohama, JP;
Tetsuya Kitamura, Komea, JP;
Christopher J Cookson, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Greg B Thagard, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Andrew Drusin Rosen, Canoga Park, CA (US);
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Time Warner Entertainment Co., L.P., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
An audiovisual encoding system using a multipass video encoder and a plurality of one-pass audio encoders. The number of audio encoders used by the system is equal to the number of audio tracks to be encoded divided by the number of passes required for the video encoding rounded up to the nearest integer, if necessary. The system allows the video encoder and audio encoders to be used at the same time so that the encoding of the video is completed at the same time as the encoding of all audio tracks is completed, using the minimum number of audio encoders.