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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2001
Bhavan Gandhi, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
Kevin O'Connell, Palatine, IL (US);
Faisal Ishtiaq, Chicago, IL (US);
Raghavan Subramaniyan, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
The disclosed invention is a method to detect candidate errors within the picture start code, picture header, and picture timestamp. Upon detection, these errors may be confirmed and the impacts mitigated. An error within the timestamp bit field is adaptively detected by the use of a threshold comparison, and a mechanism for concealing the timestamp information leaves only a small timestamp anomaly. An error within the picture start code (PSC) is determined by adaptively analyzing the number of bits and the macro-block location of the next slice or GOB. If a PSC is suspected to have been overrun due to an error, this method allows for data beyond the first GOB or slice to be recovered in the frame. Depending on the extent of use of slices and GOBs, the method can recover a majority of the frame that otherwise would have been completely lost. A candidate error within the picture header is evaluated by utilizing the first slice or GOB of the frame and analyzing information from a previous frame to check whether the current frame's header information should be replaced with the previous frame's header information. Replacing the erred frame header can result in a majority of the data within the frame being recovered that would otherwise be discarded if the header was not replaced.