Video conversion technology
AssigneeWarner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
InventorsWilliam Evans Butterworth, Roger Raymond Dwinell, Valerie McMahon
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Abstract
Video conversion technology, in which a first stream of video content is accessed and multiple, different layers are extracted from the first stream of the video content. Each of the multiple, different layers are separately processed to convert the multiple, different layers into modified layers that each have a higher resolution. The modified layers are reassembled into a second stream of the video content that has a higher resolution than the first stream of the video content.
Claims20
A method for converting a video signal, the method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more processors, a video stream having an original resolution;
- extracting, by the one or more processors, one or more video content layers from the video stream;
- converting, by the one or more processors, the one or more video content layers into one or more modified video content layers each having a higher resolution than the original resolution;
- reassembling, by the one or more processors, the one or more modified video content layers into a different resolution video stream with the higher resolution, wherein the reassembling includes identifying at least one feature in the one or more video content layers and aligning the at least one feature between the one or more video content layers;
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- storing, by the one or more processors, the different resolution video stream with the higher resolution in one or more data stores.
A computer system for converting a video signal, the computer system comprising:
- a memory having processor-readable instructions stored therein;
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- one or more processors configured to access the memory and execute the processor-readable instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors configures the one or more processors to perform a plurality of functions, including functions for:
- receiving, by the one or more processors, a video stream having an original resolution;
- extracting, by the one or more processors, one or more video content layers from the video stream;
- converting, by the one or more processors, the one or more video content layers into one or more modified video content layers each having a higher resolution than the original resolution;
- reassembling, by the one or more processors, the one or more modified video content layers into a different resolution video stream with the higher resolution, wherein the reassembling includes identifying at least one feature in the one or more video content layers and aligning the at least one feature between the one or more video content layers;
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- storing, by the one or more processors, the different resolution video stream with the higher resolution in one or more data stores.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions for converting a video signal, the instructions comprising:
- receiving a video stream having an original resolution;
- extracting one or more video content layers from the video stream;
- converting the one or more video content layers into one or more modified video content layers each having a higher resolution than the original resolution;
- reassembling the one or more modified video content layers into a different resolution video stream with the higher resolution, wherein the reassembling includes identifying at least one feature in the one or more video content layers and aligning the at least one feature between the one or more video content layers;
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- storing the different resolution video stream with the higher resolution in one or more data stores.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.