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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Sriram Sethuraman, East Windsor, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ;
Abstract
A method and concomitant apparatus for adapting the behavior of an MPEG-like encoder to information discontinuities within a received information stream, such that encoding quality and random access to a resulting encoded stream is retained near information discontinuity point without adversely impacting buffer utilization parameters. Specifically, an anchor frame comprising an I-frame preceding an information discontinuity is encoded as a P-frame, while an anchor frame following the information discontinuity is encoded as an I-frame.