Patent ID: 9674558
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method of providing a user interface for managing a digital video compression system, the method comprising: receiving system configuration information relating to the digital video compression system being managed; partitioning the system into a plurality of transform stages, each transform stage representing a transformation that can be performed on a signal stream as a signal stream flows through the system; representing a signal stream using one or more signal blocks, wherein a signal block contains information relating to a signal stream within a transform stage; generating a view of the system, wherein the view of the system is represented as one or more signal streams through the system, and one or more signal blocks along each of said signal streams; modifying the view of the system in response to user commands; providing a plurality of information layers, wherein a first type of information is displayed in a signal block at a first information layer, and a second type of information is displayed in a signal block at a second information layer; switching between one or more of information layers and hierarchical layers in response to receiving a user command; and receiving a user command to edit a system setting, modifying the system setting based on the received user command, and updating the view of the system based on the modified setting; wherein a system setting is modified in response to: a user selecting a corresponding signal block, and editing the system parameters of that signal block; or a user selecting multiple signal blocks, and editing the system parameters of the multiple signal blocks in parallel.