Patent ID: 8279926

Claim:
A method, comprising: partitioning a first sequence of pictures into plural representations, the first sequence of pictures having plural contiguous, non-overlapping segments, each of the plural segments having a single corresponding segment in each of the plural representations, the first sequence of pictures having a first spatial resolution and a first temporal resolution, each of the plural representations having a respective sequence of latticed pictures representing a distinct set of pixels of the first sequence of pictures, the plural representations collectively comprising the first spatial resolution and the first temporal resolution; encoding each of the plural representations independently of each other with a common time base, each encoded representation having a respective bit-rate, the plural encoded representations having an aggregate bit-rate; providing a first portion of the plural encoded representations based on a first network condition, the first portion having a first bit-rate; and providing a second portion of the plural encoded representations having a second bit-rate different than the first bit-rate, wherein a switch from providing the first portion to providing the second portion is responsive to a second network condition different than the first network condition; receiving the encoded representations at a communications and decoding the latticed pictures of a first segment; forming pictures by de-latticing the decoded latticed-pictures of the first segment; and providing the de-latticed pictures of the first segment for display at a partial picture resolution of the corresponding pictures of the video signal, the partial resolution corresponding to a picture resolution of 1/p, where p equals the number of arranged plural segments.