Patent ID: 6608966
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A video server system which plays back a movie regardless of its content at a higher than recorded speed upon receipt of and in response to a single request to play back the movie at a higher than recorded speed comprising:a storage device for storing the movie to be played back and for playing back the movie in selected segments; and a controller connected to said storage device for causing said storage device to play back a sequential set of substantially adjacent movie segments of substantially the same length from the movie with an alternating series of intervening movie segments of substantially the same length omitted therefrom upon receipt of and in response to the single request to play back the movie at a higher than recorded speed, wherein the length of the play back matches the length of a single stripe in the storage device, wherein said adjacent movie segments comprise a plurality of consecutive frames of said movie, and wherein said alternating series of intervening movie segments is omitted from said sequential set of adjacent movie segments during the playback, regardless of the content of said alternating series of intervening movie segments, and further wherein said plurality of consecutive frames without a reference frame are eliminated.