Patent ID: 7627038
Filing Date: 2009-12-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. In a video management system configured to receive a video stream containing one or more video pictures that are each divided into blocks, wherein the video management system is to provide a representation of the one or more video pictures to a subsample decoder for subsampling, a method of reducing the size of the one or more frames with minimal, if any, effect on the video quality generated from the one or more frames after subsampling, the method comprising the following: accessing a video picture that is to be provided to a video node having a subsample decoder; obtaining information specifying a subsampling ratio to be performed by the subsample decoder; and in response to the obtained information, for at least one block of the video picture, performing subsample transcoding of the at least one block, thereby reducing the size of the at least one block to generate at least one reduced size block in such a way that subsampled decoding the at least one reduced size block results in substantially the same reduced size image as subsampled decoding the at least one block prior to the subsample transcoding, wherein reducing the size of the block includes the following: