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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2014
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Mingquan Wu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems facilitate efficient and effective special effects in video streaming. In one embodiment, an apparatus enables special effects by decoding video frames in accordance with a decoding process. The decoding process includes: accessing a plurality of streams of video (wherein each stream originates from a respective camera of a camera array) and decoding frames from the plurality of streams of video. A first stream from a first camera comprises: a first primary special effect predictive (SP) frame that is coded based upon a predictive (P) frame in the first stream; and a first secondary special effect predictive (SP) frame that is coded based upon a primary special effect predictive (SP) frame included in a second stream from a second camera. The method further comprises rendering a special effect using the primary and secondary special effect predictive (SP) frames.