Patent ID: 6909745

Claim:
A system for content adaptive encoding of data comprising: (1) an extractor that divides video content into temporal portions; (2) a locator that associates descriptors to each portion based on portion content, the locator further locating at least one of subsegments and regions of interest; (3) a mapper that maps each portion of the video content to a model from a plurality of models based on the portion descriptors, the mapper further comprising; (a) a plurality of content model units, each content model unit of the plurality of content model units being associated with a model of the plurality of models; (b) a plurality of comparators, each comparator of the plurality of comparators connected to a content model unit and an output from the extractor or an output from the locator; and (c) a plurality of selectors, wherein each selector of the plurality of selectors is connected to two of the comparators; and (4) a plurality of encoders, each encoder of the plurality of encoders configured to encode portions according to the model associated with the portion.