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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1998
Weiping Li, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Optivision, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A video encoding method and apparatus for adapting a video input to a bandwidth of a transmission channel of a network that includes determining the number N enhancement layer bitstreams capable of being adapted to the bandwidth of the transmission channel of a network. A base layer bitstream is encoded from the video input wherein a plurality of enhancement layer bitstreams are encoded from the video input. The enhancement layer bit-streams are based on the base layer bitstream, wherein the plurality of enhancement layer bitstreams complements the base layer bitstream and the base layer bitstream and N enhancement layer bitstreams to are transmitted to the network.