Patent ID: 8625676

Claim:
A system, comprising: a joint reconstruction component that reconstructs a common original video signal from respective video streams encoded at disparate bit rates from the common original video signal based at least in part on a decoding that employs a least squares estimation, the joint reconstruction component comprising: one or more stream reconstruction components that reconstruct video signal information corresponding to the respective video streams, wherein the one or more stream reconstruction components further comprise respective estimation components that determine respective ranges of discrete cosine transform coefficients for the respective video streams, and select values for the discrete cosine transform coefficients for the respective video streams from the respective ranges based on a probability distribution for the discrete cosine transform coefficients; and a joint decoding component that creates a reconstructed video signal at least in part by determining weight values for the video signal information corresponding to the respective video streams to reduce a distortion between the common original video signal and the reconstructed video signal.