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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Mei-Hsuan Lu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ming-Chieh Lee, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Ways to mitigate loss in inter-operability scenarios for digital video are presented. For example, a bitstream modification tool (such as a bitstream rewriter running on a network node of a videoconferencing system) receives an incoming bitstream of encoded video (e.g., from an encoder that uses a first loss recovery strategy). The bitstream modification tool processes the incoming bitstream of encoded video to produce an outgoing bitstream of encoded video. In doing so, the bitstream modification tool changes at least one syntax element between the incoming bitstream and the outgoing bitstream so as to mitigate picture loss effects during decoding of the outgoing bitstream under lossy delivery conditions. The bitstream modification tool outputs the outgoing bitstream. In this way, the bitstream modification tool can help avoid blank screens, frozen screens, or other failures during decoding under lossy delivery conditions (e.g., with a decoder that uses a different loss recovery strategy).