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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2003
Donald F. Gordon, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sadik Bayrakeri, Foster City, CA (US);
Joseph R. Wild, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jeremy S. Edmonds, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Edward A. Ludvig, Redwood City, CA (US);
John P. Comito, Redwood City, CA (US);
Eugene Gershtein, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Donald F. Gordon, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sadik Bayrakeri, Foster City, CA (US);
Joseph R. Wild, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jeremy S. Edmonds, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Edward A. Ludvig, Redwood City, CA (US);
John P. Comito, Redwood City, CA (US);
Eugene Gershtein, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Sedna Patent Services, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
A data structure suited to efficiently representing a plurality of image streams including common and non-common portions. Specifically, a plurality of similar group of picture (GOP) data structures representing the corresponding plurality of image streams including common and non-common portions is adapted to provide a first encoded stream comprising only P-picture and B-picture access units of one of the similar GOP data structures, and a corresponding plurality of encoded streams comprising only respective I-picture access units of the similar GOP data structures. In this manner, the redundant P-picture and B-picture access units within the encoded streams are eliminated, thereby greatly reducing the bandwidth or memory resources needed to transmit or store the plurality of image streams.