Patent ID: 8548063
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A video receiver, comprising: a video decoder comprising a parser, a frame memory, and registers, said video decoder operable to receive an encoded stream of video data and to decode said encoded stream into a pixel stream representing video images, said pixel stream stored in said frame memory, said parser operable to parse associated attribute data from said encoded stream and store said attribute data in said registers, said attribute data describing said video images; and a channel formatter comprising an attribute formatter, a pixel encoder, a data encoder, and a channel encoder, said attribute formatter operable to read said attribute data from said registers, format said attribute data according to a predefined attribute mapping, said attribute data for use by said data encoder, and provide said formatted attribute data to said data encoder, said data encoder operable to encode said formatted attribute data, said pixel encoder operable to read said pixel stream out of said frame memory and encode said pixel stream, said channel encoder operable to encode said encoded pixel stream only on a first channel, and said encoded and formatted attribute data only on a second channel, and to combine said first and second channels so that there is a defined relationship between video pixels in an image and attribute data for said image.