Patent ID: 6025877
Filing Date: 2000-02-15
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
A scalable transmission method of video objects segmented by content-base, comprising the following steps of:constituting a set of video objects to be transferred (hereinafter, referred to as TxSet), and then transmitting said TxSet:checking as to whether said TxSet is the last portion of a video sequence, and then calculating a current transmission rate (hereinafter, referred to as TxRate) and a transmission tolerance data size;constituting a video object evaluation group (egs), and setting said TxSet;comparing the data size of the video object evaluation group (egs) with a data size (hereinafter referred to as TxSetSize) of said TxSet elements plus a data amount (hereinafter, referred to as ObjSize (j)) of the video objects of the transmission priority j, and then adding the video object evaluation group (egs) to the TxSet; andchecking as to whether the video object (hereinafter referred to as Object (j) of the transmission priority j is the last element of the video object evaluation group i.