Patent ID: 6445740
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A method of decoding coded digital signals representative of audiovisual data and available in the form of a continuous bitstream in view of the binary description of a scene to be rendered on a displaying device, said method comprising a processing operation based on an evolutive syntactic language and including the steps:extracting, from said bitstream, distinct elements called objects according to the structure of said scene; defining an individual animation of said elements of the scene; defining particular interactions between a user and said elements; and organizing specific relations between said scene elements and corresponding individual animations and/or user interactions according to various classes of applications; wherein said processing operation further comprises an additional step of describing a complex scene, built from any kind of bidimensional and tridimensional objects, according to a framework integrating both bidimensional and tridimensional features and unifying the composition and representation mechanisms of the scene structure, wherein said additional step comprises a first main sub-step of defining a hierarchical representation of said scene according to a tree structure organized both in grouping nodes, that indicate the hierarchical connections giving the spatial composition of the concerned scene, and in children nodes, that constitute the leaves of the tree; and a second auxiliary sub-step of defining transversal connections between any kind of nodes.