Image process apparatus and method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsMin-woo Jung, Chun-un Kang, Ki-won Kwak
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Abstract
An image process apparatus and an image process method. The image process apparatus includes a receiving unit to receive moving picture data; and a buffering unit to preferentially buffer a predetermined number of frames by each frame group composing the moving picture data, thereby providing a continuous streaming picture.
Claims29
An image process apparatus comprising:
- a receiving unit to receive moving picture data;
- and
- a buffering unit to preferentially buffer, prior to playing back a plurality of frame groups of the moving picture data, a predetermined number of frames for each of the plurality of frame groups.
An image process method comprising:
- receiving moving picture data;
- and
- preferentially buffering, prior to playing back a plurality of frame groups of the moving picture data, a predetermined number of frames for each of the plurality of frame groups.
A method of minimizing network traffic involved in streaming data, the method comprising:
- preferentially buffering a predetermined number of frames of data, including at least a key frame, for each of a plurality of frame groups making up the data;
- receiving a command to fast forward through the data from a current position;
- and
- displaying at least the preferentially buffered key frame, without displaying remaining unbuffered frames, in each of the frame groups so as to fast forward through the data.
A method of minimizing network traffic involved in streaming data, the method comprising:
- preferentially buffering a predetermined number of frames of data, without buffering remaining frames, for each of a plurality of frame groups making up the data;
- receiving a command to move to a selected frame of the data from a current frame;
- reproducing the data starting at the selected frame if the selected frame is one of the buffered predetermined number of frames;
- and
- buffering the selected frame prior to reproducing the data starting at the selected frame, without buffering preceding frames, if the selected frame is not one of the buffered predetermined number of frames.
A reproducing apparatus comprising:
- a receiving unit to receive data;
- a buffering unit to preferentially buffer a predetermined number of frames, without buffering a remaining frame, in each of a plurality of frame groups making up the data;
- an input unit to receive input;
- and
- a play unit to play the data based on the preferentially buffered frames and the input received from the input unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.