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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2005
Applicant:
Philip James Witham, Portland, OR (US);
Inventor:
Philip James Witham, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/783 (2006.01); H04N 9/80 (2006.01); H04N 5/93 (2006.01); H04N 5/917 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system for playing digital video at varying playback speeds can include a fetcher module configured to retrieve encoded pictures from a data store and an allocator module configured to selectively delete encoded pictures from an input cache. The system further can include a decoder module and an output cache module. The decoder module can decode pictures received from the input cache. The output cache module can store a plurality of decoded pictures and provide selected ones of the pictures as output. Pictures are processed within each of the modules according to a priority corresponding to each picture.