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Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 11, 2014
Applicants:

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, HK;

Inter-university Research Institute Corporation, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Oscar Chi Lim Au, Clear Water Bay, HK;

Wei Dai, Clear Water Bay, HK;

Gene Cheung, Tokyo, JP;

Ngai Man Cheung, Singapore, SG;

Antonio Ortega Diego, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/2662 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 19/159 (2014.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.01); H04N 19/147 (2014.01); H04N 19/172 (2014.01); H04N 19/126 (2014.01); H04N 19/19 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 19/126 (2014.11); H04N 19/147 (2014.11); H04N 19/159 (2014.11); H04N 19/172 (2014.11); H04N 19/176 (2014.11); H04N 19/19 (2014.11); H04N 21/2662 (2013.01); H04N 21/4621 (2013.01);
Abstract

Stream-switching techniques are applied in a content delivery system. A merge frame is generated as a function of bit-rates, distortion, and a piecewise constant operator. Parameters of the piecewise constant operator are selected to optimize the merge frame. Data streams are switched based on bandwidth requirements, switch requests, and throughput of a network. Images are reconstructed based on the merge frames and prediction frames. Reconstructed images are identically reconstructed for any prediction frame based on the merge frame.


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