Patent ID: 9231993
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for transmitting an encoded video stream, comprising: a slice generating unit that divides a frame, comprised in a video stream, into at least one or more slice; a transmitting unit transmitting the slice in units of a packet within a slice deadline, which is a time limit required for transmission of the slice, wherein the transmitting unit preferentially transmits a header packet that contains slice header information over other packets, and the slice header information includes information necessary for reconstructing the slice; and a packet deadline calulating unit configured to dynamically calculate a packet deadline, which is a transmission time limit for each packet of a slice following the header packet, the packet deadline is calculated by dividing the remaining time to the slice deadline by the number of packets in the slice, wherein the remaining time is calculated by subtracting the current time after the header was successfully transmitted from the slice deadline, and wherein the transmitting unit comprises: