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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2009
Donald F. Gordon, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sadik Bayrakeri, Foster City, CA (US);
Joseph R. Wild, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jeremy S. Edmonds, Castro Valley, 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, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Edward A. Ludvig, Redwood City, CA (US);
John P. Comito, Redwood City, CA (US);
Eugene Gershtein, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Comcast IP Holdings I, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for compressing a plurality of video sequences, is provided where each sequence has information that is common with other video sequences. The ensemble encodes the video sequences into an MPEG compliant transport stream using less predicted frame information than separately encoding each video sequence. One illustrative application involves efficiently encoding and transmitting a user interface such as a program guide, interactive program guide, electronic program guide, navigator and the like. The user interface is illustratively embodied in an interactive program guide (IPG).