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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2005
Shan Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Ji Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jiandong Shen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hain-ching Liu, Fremont, CA (US);
Shan Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Ji Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jiandong Shen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hain-Ching Liu, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention described herein provides a video analysis tool to assist a computer programmer working on a program that effects video data. The tool may be integrated with program code. When enacted, the tool obtains statistical information related to the video data and information corresponding to functions of the code. The code may be responsible for encoding, transcoding, and/or decoding video data, for example. The tool is integrated with a video decoder to allow the information to be output with raw video data. The present invention is particularly useful for developing, debugging and analyzing programs responsible for encoding, transcoding, and/or decoding video data, such as video data compressed according to an MPEG standard.