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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2005
Akihiro Kohno, Tokyo, JP;
Takao Fujita, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshiro Hikida, Inagi, JP;
Toshiyuki Fukui, Yokohama, JP;
Akihiro Kohno, Tokyo, JP;
Takao Fujita, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshiro Hikida, Inagi, JP;
Toshiyuki Fukui, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A video delivery apparatus for delivering a video stream with a property according to a request from a client. The video delivery apparatus includes reception means for receiving a delivery request from one client, first estimation means for estimating a current processing load by calculating a sum total of the processing loads for other clients connected to deliver a video stream upon reception of the delivery request from the one client, second estimation means for estimating a processing load upon delivering the video stream to the one client according to the delivery request, and delivery control means for performing the delivery control of the video stream on the basis of at least one of the current processing load estimated by the first estimation means and the processing load upon delivering the video stream to the one client according to the delivery request, which is estimated by the second estimation means.