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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2009
Arturo A. Rodriguez, Norcross, GA (US);
James AU, Richmond, CA;
Jan DE Lameillieure, Kortrijk, BE;
Samie Beheydt, Geluwe, BE;
Arturo A. Rodriguez, Norcross, GA (US);
James Au, Richmond, CA;
Jan De Lameillieure, Kortrijk, BE;
Samie Beheydt, Geluwe, BE;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods that receives a video stream in a transport stream, the first video stream comprising a plurality of compressed pictures, and that receives information in the video stream, wherein the information includes plural data fields, the received information comprising: a first data field corresponding to a location in the video stream of a potential splice point in the video stream, wherein the value of the first data field identifies a location in the video stream after the location of the received information in the video stream; a second data field corresponding to decompressed pictures yet to be output (DPYTBO) by a video decoder at the identified potential splice point (IPSP) when the video decoder decompresses the video stream, wherein the value of the second data field is a number corresponding to the DPYTBO by the video decoder at the IPSP; and a third data field corresponding to pictures with contiguous output times (WCOT), wherein the value of the third field corresponds to a set of pictures WCOT of the DPYTBO by the video decoder at the IPSP.