公开(公告)号：US6154771A

公开(公告)日：2000-11-28

申请号：US88513

申请日：1998-06-01

申请人： P. Venkat Rangan ,  Vijnan Shastri ,  Arya Ashwani ,  Parag Arole

发明人： P. Venkat Rangan ,  Vijnan Shastri ,  Arya Ashwani ,  Parag Arole

IPC分类号： G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G11B27/10 ,  H04N5/44 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/47 ,  H04N21/4725 ,  H04N21/4782 ,  H04N21/858 ,  G06F13/38 ,  G06F15/17

CPC分类号： G06F3/04842 ,  G06F17/30855 ,  G11B27/10 ,  H04N21/4331 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/4725 ,  H04N21/4782 ,  H04N21/8193 ,  H04N21/858 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N5/4401

摘要： Streaming compressed digital hypervideo received upon a digital communications network is decoded (decompressed) and played in a client-computer-based "video on web VCR" software system. Scene changes, if not previously marked upstream, are automatically detected, and typically twenty-one past scenes are displayed as thumbnail images. Hyperlinks within the main video scene, and/or any thumbnail image, show as hotspots, with text annotations typically appearing upon a cursor "mouse over". All hyperlinks--as are provided and inserted by, inter alia, the upstream network service provider (the "ISP")--may be, and preferably are, full-custom dynamically-resolved to each subscriber/user/viewer ("SUV") upon volitional "click throughs" by the SUV, including retrospectively on past hypervideo scenes as appear within the thumbnail images. Hyperlinking permits (i) retrieving information and commercials, including streaming video/hypervideo, from any of local storage, a network (or Internet) service provider ("ISP"), a network content provider, and/or an advertiser network site, (ii) entering a contest of skill or a lottery of chance, (iii) gambling, (iv) buying (and less often, selling), (v) responding to a survey, and expressing an opinion, and/or (vi) sounding an alert.

摘要翻译： 在数字通信网络上接收的流式压缩数字超视频解码器（解压缩）并在基于客户端计算机的“VCR视频”软件系统中播放。 如果以前没有标记为上游，则会自动检测到场景更改，通常将二十一个过去场景显示为缩略图。 主视频场景内的超链接和/或任何缩略图显示为热点，文本注释通常出现在光标“鼠标悬停”上。 所有超链接（如由上游网络服务提供商（“ISP”）提供和插入）可以并且优选地被动态地解析为每个用户/用户/观看者（“SUV”）， 通过SUV的“点击通过”，包括追溯到缩略图中显示的过去的超视频场景。 超链接允许（i）从本地存储器，网络（或因特网）服务提供商（“ISP”），网络内容提供商和/或广告商网络站点中的任何本地存储器，或从广播网络站点检索信息和广告，包括流视频/超视频 ii）进入技能竞赛或抽奖机会，（iii）赌博，（iv）购买（且较少经常出售），（v）回应调查，表达意见和/或（vi）发声 一个警报。

公开(公告)号：US6006265A

公开(公告)日：1999-12-21

申请号：US54362

申请日：1998-04-02

申请人： P. Venkat Rangan ,  Vijnan Shastri ,  P. Srihari Sampath-Kumar ,  Arya Ashwani

发明人： P. Venkat Rangan ,  Vijnan Shastri ,  P. Srihari Sampath-Kumar ,  Arya Ashwani

IPC分类号： G06F17/30 ,  H04N5/44 ,  H04N5/45 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/47 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/858 ,  G06T1/00

CPC分类号： H04N7/17318 ,  G06F17/30855 ,  H04N21/25883 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/8583 ,  H04N21/8586 ,  H04N5/4401 ,  H04N5/45

摘要： Streaming digital hypervideo including copious embedded hyperlinks is distributed upon a digital communications network from a hypervideo server, normally an Internet Service Provider, to multitudinous client subscribers/users/viewers (client SUVs). Some or all of the client SUVs receive the same hyperlinks at the same place in the streaming hypervideo. Some small fraction of the client SUVs selectively volitionally exercise a fraction of the total hyperlinks, causing an access in the background of the unfolding hypervideo across the digital communications network to yet another server commonly called a "Video On Web server", or "VOW server". The VOW sever interprets each hyperlink request in consideration of (i) the identity of the exercising client SUV and, most commonly, (ii) additional data of a demographic, socioeconomic, credit, viewing preference, security and/or past hyperlinking history nature. The VOW Server supplies each hyperlink-exercising client SUV with a potentially custom hyperlink --normally in the form of a network universal resource locator (URL) or an index to a file of URLs--while keeping track of commercially useful data regarding the client SUV response(s). Each client SUV uses its own associated received URL to retrieve a potentially unique resource. The resource can be internal, such as an executable software program, but is normally located somewhere on the network and is typically in the nature of tailored and/or targeted advertisements, messages of personal or local or temporal pertinence and/or urgency, and/or the results of contests or lotteries. Hypervideo hyperlinks are thus dynamically resolved during streaming network communications to support full custom hyperlinking by each of multitudinous networked client SUVs.

摘要翻译： 包含大量嵌入式超链接的流式数字超视频分布在数字通信网络上，从超视频服务器（通常为互联网服务提供商）分发到众多的客户端用户/用户/观众（客户端SUV）。 部分或全部客户端SUV在流式超视图中的相同位置接收相同的超链接。 客户端SUV的一小部分选择性地运行总超链接的一小部分，导致在数字通信网络中展开的超视频数据库的背景中的访问通常称为“在Web服务器上的视频”或“VOW服务器 “。 考虑到（i）运动客户SUV的身份，以及最常见的（ii）人口，社会经济，信用，观看偏好，安全性和/或过去的超链接历史性质的附加数据，VOW服务器解释每个超链接请求。 VOW服务器为每个超链接 - 运动客户端SUV提供可能的自定义超链接 - 通常以网络通用资源定位符（URL）的形式或URL文件的索引，同时跟踪有关客户端SUV响应的商业有用数据 （s）。 每个客户端SUV使用其自己的相关联的接收的URL来检索潜在的唯一资源。 该资源可以是内部的，例如可执行软件程序，但是通常位于网络上的某处，并且通常具有定制和/或有针对性的广告的性质，个人或本地或时间相关性和/或紧急性的消息，和/ 或比赛或彩票的结果。 因此，在流媒体网络通信期间，Hypervideo超链接被动态地解决，以支持每个众多的联网客户端SUV的完全自定义超链接。

公开(公告)号：US06493872B1

公开(公告)日：2002-12-10

申请号：US09168315

申请日：1998-10-07

申请人： P. Venkat Rangan ,  Mehul Shah ,  Vijnan Shastri ,  Indranil Chakraborty

发明人： P. Venkat Rangan ,  Mehul Shah ,  Vijnan Shastri ,  Indranil Chakraborty

IPC分类号： H04J306

CPC分类号： H04N7/088 ,  G06T7/246 ,  H04N5/4401 ,  H04N7/083 ,  H04N21/234318 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/4305 ,  H04N21/4307 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/4725 ,  H04N21/631 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/854 ,  H04N21/8547 ,  H04N21/858 ,  H04N21/8586

摘要： A system for synchronizing data streams meant to be displayed concurrently at an end station, but delivered by separate delivery networks is disclosed. In one aspect, apparatus and methods for marking one of the data streams relative to the other are taught, including insertion of frame numbers in vertical and horizontal blanking intervals, the numbers referring to frames in the other stream and related to timing markers, and inserting such numbers by pixel data alteration. In another aspect, apparatus and methods are taught for receiving and re-synchronizing the data streams at a delivery point, including decoding of the relationship data inserted in one data stream referring to the other data stream. Re-synchronization is accomplished by controlling the separate data streams in separate buffer pipelines by a single controller. In a preferred embodiment one data stream is a live video data stream and the other is an annotation stream having added material to be displayed with the live video data stream.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于同步数据流的系统，其旨在在终端站同时显示，但由单独的传送网络传送。 在一个方面，教导了相对于另一个数据流中的一个数据流标记的装置和方法，包括在垂直和水平消隐间隔中插入帧号，参考另一个流中的帧并与定时标记相关联的插入 这样的数字按像素数据改变。 在另一方面，教导了在传送点处接收和重新同步数据流的装置和方法，包括参考另一数据流插入到一个数据流中的关系数据的解码。 通过单个控制器在单独的缓冲器管道中控制单独的数据流来实现重新同步。 在优选实施例中，一个数据流是实时视频数据流，另一个是具有要与实况视频数据流一起显示的附加资料的注释流。

公开(公告)号：US06198833B1

公开(公告)日：2001-03-06

申请号：US09154532

申请日：1998-09-16

申请人： P. Venkat Rangan ,  Mehul Shah ,  Vijnan Shastri

发明人： P. Venkat Rangan ,  Mehul Shah ,  Vijnan Shastri

IPC分类号： G06K900

CPC分类号： G06K9/32 ,  G06T7/246 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/854

摘要： A tracking software module for tracking a moving image entity in a video display has an interface for receiving and processing a video data stream while the video presentation provided by the data stream is presented on a display as a series of bitmapped images having a moving image entity to be tracked. There is in the module a graphical user interface usable by an editor for creating, selecting and centering a predefined matrix of signature pixel positions on the moving entity to be tracked in a first frame of the video presentation, and for initiating a tracking process. A determination function determines the color values of the signature pixels in the first frame and stores the values as an image signature. An estimation function assumes a next position for the moving entity, and a test function determines the color signature of the signature pixels at the assumed position and at a plurality of test positions in the immediate vicinity of the assumed position and tests the determined values against the color signature recorded for the entity. Finally a recording function accepts the position wherein the pixel signature most closely matches the image signature; in each frame, and a data stream synchronous with the input data stream and having centerpoint coordinates frame-by-frame for the moving entity is provided as a result.

摘要翻译： 用于跟踪视频显示器中的运动图像实体的跟踪软件模块具有用于接收和处理视频数据流的接口，同时由数据流提供的视频呈现作为一系列具有运动图像实体的位图图像呈现在显示器上 被跟踪。 在该模块中有一个图形用户界面，可由编辑器使用，用于创建，选择和定中在视频呈现的第一帧中要跟踪的移动实体上的签名像素位置的预定义矩阵，并用于启动跟踪过程。 确定功能确定第一帧中的签名像素的颜色值，并将该值存储为图像签名。 估计函数假设移动实体的下一个位置，并且测试函数确定在假设位置和在假定位置附近的多个测试位置处的签名像素的颜色签名，并根据 为实体记录颜色签名。 最后，记录功能接受像素特征与图像签名最匹配的位置; 并且提供与输入数据流同步并且具有用于移动实体的逐帧的中心点坐标的数据流。

公开(公告)号：US08838826B2

公开(公告)日：2014-09-16

申请号：US13439678

申请日：2012-04-04

申请人： Francisco Manuel Galanes ,  Vijnan Shastri ,  Pawel Jurczyk

发明人： Francisco Manuel Galanes ,  Vijnan Shastri ,  Pawel Jurczyk

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L65/60 ,  H04L43/16 ,  H04L47/10 ,  H04L65/4084 ,  H04L65/605 ,  H04N21/23116 ,  H04N21/23439 ,  H04N21/6473 ,  H04N21/8456

摘要： A system and method for a live streaming platform that can redundantly process input streams in parallel ingestion pipelines is disclosed herein. Ingested input streams in the parallel pipelines can be segmented using a stable segmentation function that creates identical segments in each of the streams in the pipelines. If errors occur, or there are disruptions in one or more of the input streams or pipelines, the live streaming platform can switch between the input streams on a per segment basis to provide reliable streaming feeds to a content distribution network. A master stream can be constructed from each of the master segments per a time period based on a reliability of each of the input streams and segments. Practicing pipeline affinity by selecting subsequent master segments from the same pipeline can minimize glitches.

摘要翻译： 本文公开了一种可并行摄取管道冗余地处理输入流的实况流平台的系统和方法。 可以使用稳定的分段功能来分割并行流水线中的输入流，从而在管道中的每个流中创建相同的分段。 如果出现错误或者在一个或多个输入流或管道中存在中断，直播流平台可以在每个段的基础上在输入流之间切换，以向内容分发网络提供可靠的流馈送。 可以基于每个输入流和段的可靠性，每个时间段从每个主分段构建主流。 通过从同一管道中选择后续的主段来实现流水线的相似性可以最大限度地减少故障。

公开(公告)号：US08042142B1

公开(公告)日：2011-10-18

申请号：US12332301

申请日：2008-12-10

申请人： Rushabh A. Doshi ,  Wendy Tobagus ,  Vijnan Shastri ,  Christophe Chaland

发明人： Rushabh A. Doshi ,  Wendy Tobagus ,  Vijnan Shastri ,  Christophe Chaland

IPC分类号： H04N7/173

CPC分类号： H04N21/2343

摘要： In one embodiment, a method includes accessing data identifying a video for processing and mapping an instruction graph to the video based on one or more predetermined criteria and the data identifying the video. The instruction graph describes a workflow for processing the video, and the workflow includes a series of services that each provide particular processing of the video. The method includes calling the services in series to process the video based on the instruction graph. The video streams to each service in series as the video processes. A downstream service may begin processing one or more portions of the video after an upstream service has finished processing the one or more portions of the video and before the upstream service has finished processing the video in its entirety.

摘要翻译： 在一个实施例中，一种方法包括访问识别用于处理视频的数据，以及基于一个或多个预定标准和识别视频的数据将指令图映射到视频。 指令图描述了用于处理视频的工作流程，并且工作流程包括一系列服务，每个服务都提供视频的特定处理。 该方法包括根据指令图串行调用服务来处理视频。 视频流中每个服务的视频串流。 在上游业务已经完成处理视频的一个或多个部分之后，以及在上游业务完成处理视频之前，下游业务可以开始处理视频的一个或多个部分。

公开(公告)号：US08849956B2

公开(公告)日：2014-09-30

申请号：US13006811

申请日：2011-01-14

申请人： Dmitry Broyde ,  Slave Jovanovski ,  Vijnan Shastri ,  Stanley Wang

发明人： Dmitry Broyde ,  Slave Jovanovski ,  Vijnan Shastri ,  Stanley Wang

IPC分类号： G06F15/173 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/2743 ,  H04N21/431

CPC分类号： H04N21/23439 ,  H04N21/2743 ,  H04N21/4312

摘要： A system for providing video processing feedback to content providers uploading a video file. As the content provider uploads a video file to the video processing server, the server processes the uploading file and extracts representative video frames from the video file. The video processing server embeds the representative frames into a processing feedback page hosted on a web server in the video processing server. Each representative frame in the feedback page represents a part of the uploading video. The feedback page is accessible through the content provider's browser and the feedback page includes a sequence of representative frames in temporal order. In one embodiment, the representative frames in the feedback page are colored or shaded to indicate whether the video part represented by a particular frame has been processed.

摘要翻译： 一种用于向上传视频文件的内容提供者提供视频处理反馈的系统。 当内容提供商将视频文件上传到视频处理服务器时，服务器处理上传文件并从视频文件中提取代表性的视频帧。 视频处理服务器将代表帧嵌入在视频处理服务器中的web服务器上托管的处理反馈页面中。 反馈页面中的每个代表帧代表上传视频的一部分。 反馈页面可通过内容提供商的浏览器访问，并且反馈页面以时间顺序包括代表性帧序列。 在一个实施例中，反馈页面中的代表帧被着色或阴影，以指示由特定帧表示的视频部分是否已被处理。

公开(公告)号：US20130272374A1

公开(公告)日：2013-10-17

申请号：US13444787

申请日：2012-04-11

申请人： Krishnan Eswaran ,  Thierry Foucu ,  Jie Sun ,  Krishna Kumar Gadepalli ,  Vijnan Shastri

发明人： Krishnan Eswaran ,  Thierry Foucu ,  Jie Sun ,  Krishna Kumar Gadepalli ,  Vijnan Shastri

IPC分类号： H04N7/26

CPC分类号： H04L69/40 ,  H04L29/06523 ,  H04L65/4015 ,  H04L65/602 ,  H04L65/607 ,  H04L67/2804 ,  H04N21/23106 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/234309 ,  H04N21/8456

摘要： A system and method for a live streaming platform that can redundantly process input streams in parallel ingestion pipelines is disclosed herein. Ingested input streams in the parallel pipelines can be segmented using a segmentation function that creates identical segments in each of the streams in the pipelines. If errors occur, or there are disruptions in one or more of the input streams or pipelines, the live streaming platform can ensure that segments are identifiable and different parts of the pipelines can join a main stream at different points in time without disruption.

摘要翻译： 本文公开了一种可并行摄取管道冗余地处理输入流的实况流平台的系统和方法。 可以使用在管道中的每个流中创建相同段的分段功能来分割并行流水线中的输入流。 如果出现错误或者在一个或多个输入流或管道中存在中断，直播流平台可以确保段是可识别的，并且管道的不同部分可以不间断地在不同时间点加入主流。

公开(公告)号：US06845485B1

公开(公告)日：2005-01-18

申请号：US09586538

申请日：2000-05-31

申请人： Vijnan Shastri ,  Indranil Chakraborty

发明人： Vijnan Shastri ,  Indranil Chakraborty

IPC分类号： G06F17/30 ,  H04N5/45 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/443 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/4722 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/478 ,  G06F17/00

CPC分类号： H04N21/4758 ,  G06F17/30855 ,  H04N5/45 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N21/4316 ,  H04N21/4438 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/47202 ,  H04N21/4722 ,  H04N21/478

摘要： An automated video editing and indexing system is taught which has application for such tasks as creating a presentation for a video magazine and processing collections of video material in general. The system extracts text either from closed captions (CC) contained in the analog video presentation, or extracted from the voice contained in the presentation by voice-to-text techniques, time-stamps the CC text in text files according to position in the video presentation, and digitizes the video presentation. The text files and digitized video are sent to an editing station, where the CC text is analyzed using Natural Language Processing and other techniques to determine topic changes in the presentation. Keyframes are selected to represent the topic changes, and become thumbnails useful in indexing; indexing meaning marking the video material at points of topic changes, and in some cases jumping the video presentation to the positions represented by the thumbnails. In some cases selected CC text is associated with the thumbnails, and displayed in the video magazine as each thumbnail is selected by mouseover.

摘要翻译： 教授了一种自动化的视频编辑和索引系统，其具有诸如为视频杂志创建演示文稿和处理视频资料集合的任务的应用。 该系统从模拟视频呈现中包含的隐藏字幕（CC）或通过语音到文本技术从演示文稿中包含的语音中提取的文本提取文本，根据视频中的位置对文本文件中的CC文本进行时间戳 演示和数字化视频演示。 将文本文件和数字化视频发送到编辑站，其中使用自然语言处理和其他技术来分析CC文本以确定演示文稿中的主题变化。 选择关键帧以表示主题更改，并成为索引中有用的缩略图; 在主题变化的点上标记视频材料的索引意义，并且在某些情况下将视频呈现跳转到由缩略图表示的位置。 在某些情况下，所选的CC文本与缩略图相关联，并且通过鼠标悬停选择每个缩略图，并在视频杂志中显示。

公开(公告)号：US09615098B1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-04

申请号：US12627660

申请日：2009-11-30

申请人： Xioquan Yi ,  Huisheng Wang ,  Vijnan Shastri

发明人： Xioquan Yi ,  Huisheng Wang ,  Vijnan Shastri

IPC分类号： H04N19/134 ,  H04N19/102

CPC分类号： H04N19/134 ,  H04N19/102 ,  H04N19/132 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/179 ,  H04N19/40 ,  H04N19/59

摘要： An adaptive resolution transcoding system and method adaptively transcodes a source video with an optimized resolution and visual quality based on the video coding complexity (VCC) of the source video. The transcoding system is configured to receive a source video in its native format, and to obtain the video coding complexity score of the source video from a video coding complexity engine. The transcoding system is further configured to set a resolution adjustment level based on the complexity score. Based on the resolution adjustment level, the transcoding system determines an optimal output resolution for the source video for each video output format supported by the transcoding system. Responsive to a user selection of video output format, the transcoding system determines an optimal output resolution for the source video and encodes the source video with the determined optimal output resolution.