Patent ID: 9215500
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A receiver apparatus to store a video content in a video communication system, comprising: a control unit to monitor a condition, the condition indicative of an instantaneous quality of a video communication link based on at least one of a video communication link and the video content, the control unit configured to receive the video content via an encoded data stream over the link based on the monitoring; a full-frame buffer coupled to the control unit to store a frame of the video content in a coding format that matches the coding format of the video content received over the link; a history buffer to store at least a portion of the video content already displayed; and a display unit, coupled to the history buffer and the full-frame buffer, to display video content from the full-frame buffer and the history buffer, selective upon the condition monitored by the control unit, wherein the display unit comprises a decoder which decodes encoded video data.