Abstract:
Edge-based interpolation for upsampling. One method may include determining an edge characteristic associated with an interpolation point, the edge characteristic having an edge magnitude and an edge angle; selecting an interpolation filter in response to the edge angle; and determining a pixel value at the interpolation point using the selected interpolation filter. Other embodiments include edge-based interpolation followed by an adaptive sharpening filter. The sharpening filter is controlled by the edge-based interpolation parameters that determine the pixels to be sharpened and the sharpening strength.
Abstract:
Methods, systems and apparatuses for performing frame-level rate control in video coding are provided. Included among such methods, systems and apparatuses is a method that includes obtaining an estimated average variance associated with video residual data, and obtaining a target bit rate. The method may also include using the target bit rate, the estimated average variance and an entropy estimation based on non-identically distributed coefficients, to determine a quantization parameter for transform coefficients of the video residual data. The method may further include calculating quantized transform coefficients using the quantization parameter.
Abstract:
A method for mobility in peer to peer communication for a first peer, comprising registering a first Internet Protocol (IP) address and IP mobility method of the first peer with a P2P tracker, establishing a peer to peer (P2P) connection with a second peer, changing locations and obtaining a second IP address, registering the second IP address of the first peer with the P2P tracker via IP mobility method, and transmitting information to the second peer in the P2P communication.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for use in a network storage control peer (NSCP) supporting peer to peer (P2P) operation are disclosed. The method includes receiving information from a tracker, wherein the information includes swarm stats, selecting and joining a swarm based on the received information, receiving a first stat report from the tracker, wherein the stat report includes additional swarm stats, determining whether to upload information to an ingestion gateway based on the received first stat report, transmitting an upload request message to the ingestion gateway, receiving an upload response from the ingestion gateway, and transmitting a second stat report to the tracker; wherein the second stat report includes a uniform resource identifier (URI) for the uploaded information.
Abstract:
Systems and methods are described for determining an optimised sampling ratio for coding video data that reduces overall distortion introduced by the coding process. It seeks to balance the information loss introduced during downsampling and the information loss introduced during coding. The sampling ratio is generally determined by reducing, or in some cases minimizing, the overall error introduced through the downsampling process and the coding process, and may be adaptive based on the content of the video data being processed and a target bit rate. Computation power can be saved by coding a downsampled video. The process derives a plurality of downsampling ratios, and selects a downsampling ratio that reduces the total amount of distortion introduced during the down - sampling and coding stages. The down - sampling ratio may be selected given the available data transmission capacity, input video signal statistics, and/or other operational parameters, and may optimally reduce the overall distortion.
Abstract:
A communication system extends IETF Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling used by IMS architecture. As a basic use case, initially a first user equipment (UE1) (controller) is in a media session (e.g., audio, video and message session) with a remote UE. To transfer provider of one media component to a controllee UE, the controller UE1 sends a REFER message with a relevant body to trigger the media session operations to a Service Centralization and Continuity Application Server (SCC AS). The SCC AS is able to interpret the contents of the REFER message to perform the media session manipulation on one or multiple UEs (originating UE itself or other UEs). The innovation provides for a REFER message that convey what needs to be done in a separate SIP header carrying target dialog and media line number(s), in a SDP body that REFER carries, or XML body that will be in REFER.
Abstract:
A communication network's bandwidth may be managed using bandwidth management ("BWM") and/or bandwidth aggregation ("BWA") techniques. For example, packets of traffic may be inspected to identify a video stream and/or video sub-streams. The video sub-streams may be partitioned for transmission. For example, the video sub-streams may be partitioned based on a characteristic and/or policies associated therewith. One or more radio access technologies ("RATs") may be selected for transmitting the video sub-streams. The one or more RATs may be selected according to one or more policies for managing the bandwidth associated with the video. The video sub-streams may be transmitted via a single RAT or a plurality of aggregated RATs.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for automatically discovering and retrieving content based on a content identity (ID) are disclosed. User agents and content control entities in the network interact for registering the content, discovering the content hosts and sources, and initiating and controlling the content session. A content name resolution handler (CNRH) is provided for mapping content IDs to network locations or addresses. Two or more content service provider networks may interconnect each other to discover and retrieve the content. A content request from a client device includes a content ID that uniquely identifies a content object. The content ID is resolved with a CNRH to obtain identity information of at least one content provider for serving the content request, and the content request is forwarded to the selected content provider. The content request may be routed to the selected content provider via IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) control plane entities.
Abstract:
A visual light communication (VLC) medium is used to provide communicative coupling between two or more devices. The communicative coupling supports a variety of functions such as, for example, device discovery, content discovery, and seamless transfer of media between the two or more devices.
Abstract:
A communication system extends IETF Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling used by IMS architecture. As a basic use case, initially a first user equipment (UE1) (controller) is in a media session (e.g., audio, video and message session) with a remote UE. To transfer provider of one media component to a controllee UE, the controller UE1 sends a REFER message with a relevant body to trigger the media session operations to a Service Centralization and Continuity Application Server (SCC AS). The SCC AS is able to interpret the contents of the REFER message to perform the media session manipulation on one or multiple UEs (originating UE itself or other UEs). The innovation provides for a REFER message that convey what needs to be done in a separate SIP header carrying target dialog and media line number(s), in a SDP body that REFER carries, or XML body that will be in REFER.