Patent Document ID: 8340193
Application ID: 11462580
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. In a distributed video coding architecture, a method at least partially implemented by a computer, the method comprising: zero-tree entropy encoding Wyner-Ziv frames from multiple frames of source video content to generate encoded Wyner-Ziv content, the zero-tree entropy encoding being based on high-order statistical correlations among wavelet transforms; and communicating: a first portion of the encoded Wyner-Ziv content, comprising only parity bits corresponding to the high-order statistical correlations of the wavelet transforms, to a turbo-decoder portion of a decoder, and a second portion of the encoded Wyner-Ziv content, comprising an entropy encoded map of significant transform coefficients, to a discrete-wavelet-transformer portion of the decoder, for decoding and presentation to a user; wherein communicating the second portion of the encoded Wyner-Ziv content further comprises transmitting the entropy encoded map to the discrete-wavelet-transformer portion of the decoder to generate side information from the entropy encoded map and adjacent ones of intra-coded frames, the side information for reconstruction of the Wyner-Ziv frame.