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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2006
Applicants:
Edin Hodzic, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Andrew M. Goodman, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Inventors:
Edin Hodzic, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Andrew M. Goodman, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Vudu, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system for providing trickplay functionality—such as pause, instant replay, rewind, fast forward, etc—for very highly compressed video/audio data stream. Depending on the trickplay functionality, the system configures the duration of playback before a jump, the decoding speed required, the number of pictures to display per second, and the distance between jumps. The system may comprise a decoder, a picture rate controller and a display.