Patent ID: 9699454
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A video system comprising: at least one non-transitory storage medium; a first compressed segment for a first period of a video sequence, the first compressed segment compressed at a first quality and stored by the at least one non-transitory storage medium; a second compressed segment for the first period of the video sequence, the second compressed segment compressed at a second quality and stored by the at least one non-transitory storage medium, wherein the first compressed segment includes more frames than the second compressed segment; a third compressed segment for a second period of the video sequence stored by the at least one non-transitory storage medium; and a two-way communication interface configured to stream a compressed video bitstream and receive instructions over a network; wherein: (i) the first and second periods are adjacent and non-overlapping; (ii) the first and second qualities differ, the second quality being higher than the first quality; (iii) the first and third segments are coded independently; and (iv) the compressed video bitstream includes the third compressed segment and the second compressed segment.