Abstract:
A multipoint videoconference server is made to swiftly respond to a video switching request from a terminal and a degree of computational complexity is made lower. A server 300 decodes only m (1
Abstract:
A code conversion/transmission apparatus for being supplied with compressed encoded data and converting and outputting the data to a transmission path has code converter/transmitters for outputting the encoded data input thereto and encoded data produced by re-encoding the encoded data input thereto, or outputting a plurality of encoded data comprising encoded data produced by separately re-encoding the encoded data input thereto, respectively, and transmitting the plurality of encoded data to at least one transmission path. At least a portion of the encoded data input thereto and at least a portion of the re-encoded encoded data are transmitted to the transmission path.
Abstract:
In media communication by way of a packet-switching network and a circuit-switching network, a protocol conversion device for converting protocols between the packet-switching network and the circuit-switching network includes a call connection unit and a protocol converter. The call connection unit carries out call connection processes of media communication between terminals of the packet-switching network side and terminals of the circuit-switching network side. The protocol converter analyzes packets of speech received from the packet-switching network to specify the encoding bit rate of speech data in the speech packets. The protocol converter then specifies the multiplex table used in multiplexing frames on the circuit-switching network from the encoding bit rate. The protocol converter further generates frames by using the multiplex table that was specified to multiplex data in the payload of packets received from the packet-switching network and transmits to the circuit-switching network.
Abstract:
A conversion server and a plurality of clients are connected via a transmission line. The conversion server that receives image coded data from the clients converts the image coding system in accordance with the coding system available to each client, the coding setting, and the status of the transmission line, and transmits the converted image coded data. For a client where the number of images that can be displayed is limited, the conversion server decodes a selected plurality items of image coded data, re-encodes the selected pieces into one composite image, and transmits the re-encoded image. The conversion server also comprises decoding processing units, one for each connected client, for decoding image coded data from each client. In response to a display image switching request from a client, the conversion server intraframe-codes the decoded image data of an image that will be used after the switching and transmits the intraframe-coded data. This enables an image to be switched quickly independently of the intraframe time of received image coded data that will be used after the switching.
Abstract:
A cellular phone terminal 103 can be connected to both of a wireless cellular phone base station 104 that is a public network and a wireless LAN access pint 101 that is a private wireless network to be used by particular users. When the cellular phone terminal 103 enters a wireless area 102 of the private wireless network, the cellular phone terminal 103 activates at least one part of at least one data processing functions of an address book function 103a, a bookmark function 103b and a mailbox function 103c that handle private information for the cellular phone terminal 103. On the other hand, when the cellular phone terminal 103 moves outside the wireless LAN area 102 like a cellular phone terminal 106, at least one part of the function of the activated functions is non-activated or disabled. The activated/non-activated functions are differentiated depending on a plurality of the private wireless networks or the user of the cellular phone terminal.
Abstract:
A system and a method of suppressing outstanding degradation of decoded audio quality due to a transmission error of audio coded data are provided without feedback information from a receiver, thereby reducing the increase of the number of necessary transmission bands and the arithmetic complexity on the receiving side. A code conversion and transmission apparatus 100 for inputting audio coded data includes first to N-th code conversion and transmission units 102 and 104 to 106 for converting audio data to N pieces of coded data, and transmitting the data at predetermined or adaptively variable time intervals to M transmission lines 130. The second to N-th audio code conversion and transmission units 104 to 106 codes a frame at a compression rate equal to or higher than the rate of input coded data. The code conversion and reception apparatus 120 selects a transmission line using a selection unit 107, and selecting data from correctly received coded data in a frame or packet unit, thereby reconfiguring the coded data using a coded data reconfiguration unit 112.
Abstract:
Two-way communication apparatuses 101 and 103 communicating with each other via a transmission line 102 have an encoding part and a decoding part, and also has at least one of a combination of an interleaver and a de-interleaver and a combination of an error correcting encoding part and an error correcting decoding part. An interleave process unit, an order of an interleave process, an error correcting encoding method, an error generation code generation unit, an encoding rate, a frame rate, and a sampling frequency can be set to be asymmetric by transmitting and receiving. It is possible to achieve communication which accords with conditions of the transmission line 102 and user's demands for a delay and a quality.
Abstract:
A cellular phone terminal 103 can be connected to both of a wireless cellular phone base station 104 that is a public network and a wireless LAN access pint 101 that is a private wireless network to be used by particular users. When the cellular phone terminal 103 enters a wireless area 102 of the private wireless network, the cellular phone terminal 103 activates at least one part of at least one data processing functions of an address book function 103a, a bookmark function 103b and a mailbox function 103c that handle private information for the cellular phone terminal 103. On the other hand, when the cellular phone terminal 103 moves outside the wireless LAN area 102 like a cellular phone terminal 106, at least one part of the function of the activated functions is non-activated or disabled. The activated/non-activated functions are differentiated depending on a plurality of the private wireless networks or the user of the cellular phone terminal.
Abstract:
There are provided a system, an apparatus, and a method for suppressing increase in an amount of distribution data when performing content distribution via a network, improving reliability of the data received by a receiver in the distribution through an unstable transmission path such as a wireless transmission path, enabling provision of the content with a stable quality, and realizing the provision of the content with an optimal quality for the reception environment of content receiver, while suppressing an increase in an amount of processing for improving reliability of the distribution data on both of reception side and a transmission side. A content distribution apparatus 101 includes first through Nth image encoded data transmitting units 105 to 107, and multiplexes a plurality of data in a predetermined layer in accordance with a scalable encoding system using a plurality of sessions or a same session, for transmission by providing a preset time difference for each of the data or interleaving the data. The content distribution apparatus 101 sets compression rates of second and subsequent data to be the same or higher than that of first data, suited to a state of the transmission path, thereby suppressing an increase in a band. A content receiving apparatus 111 includes first through Nth image encoded data receiving units 113 to 115, an encoded data reconstruction unit 116, and a decoder 117. The content receiving apparatus 111 selects encoded data based on the compression rate, for reconstruction, and decodes the reconstructed encoded data.
Abstract:
In distributing moving image data, it is an object to make it possible to start reproduction, not only from the head of the moving image data, but also from any desired position and to minimize an increase in the amount of the processing. A moving image data conversion device (1) comprises moving image data receiving means (2) for receiving moving image data (6), decoder configuration information saving means (3) for retrieving and holding decoder configuration information included in the moving image data (6) to define a condition for decoding the moving image data (6), decoder configuration information inserting means (4) for inserting the decoder configuration information into a plurality of predetermined positions in the moving image data (6) to generate moving image data, and moving image data output means (5) for outputting the generated moving image data as moving image data (8).