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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2013
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Barin Geoffry Haskell, Tinton Falls, NJ (US);

Atul Puri, Riverdale, NY (US);

Robert Lewis Schmidt, Howell, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); H04N 7/26 (2006.01); H04N 5/44 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/00533 (2013.01); H04N 19/00436 (2013.01); H04N 5/4401 (2013.01); H04N 19/0043 (2013.01); H04N 19/00418 (2013.01);
Abstract

A video coding system that codes video objects as scalable video object layers. Data of each video object may be segregated in to one or more layers. A base layer contains sufficient information to decode a basic representation of the video object. Enhancement layers contain supplementary data regarding the video object that, if decoded, enhance the basic representation obtained from the base layer. The present invention thus provides a coding scheme suitable for use with decoders of varying processing power. A simple decoder may decode only the base layer of the video objects to obtain the basic representation. However, more powerful decoders may decode the base layer data of video objects and additional enhancement layer data to obtain improved decoded output. The coding scheme supports enhancement of both the spatial resolution and the temporal resolution of video object.


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