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US 9,521,180 B2Granted
Adaptive variable fidelity media distribution system and method
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsAmol Shukla, Aaron J. Colwell
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Abstract
An adaptive variable fidelity media provision system and method are provided herein.
Claims24
An apparatus, comprising:
- a client device configured to adaptively stream media content comprising multiple media information layers, wherein to adaptively stream the media content, the client device is configured:
- to obtain, in a first time window, portions of a first set of the multiple media information layers,
- to obtain, in a second time window after the first time window, portions of a second set of the multiple media information layers, the second set differing from the first set depending, at least in part, on whether the first set was timely received or at least one terminal condition at the client device changed, and
- to render, by a processing unit, a media content stream, wherein the first and second time windows are each the time to render a portion of a set of the multiple media information layers, wherein to render the media content stream, the client device is configured to combine the portions of the first set of multiple media information layers and to combine the portions of the second set of the multiple media information layers.
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A computer-implemented method for adaptively streaming media content, the method comprising:
- obtaining, in a first time window, portions of a first set of the multiple media information layers;
- obtaining, in a second time window after the first time window, portions of a second set of the multiple media information layers, the second set differing from the first set depending, at least in part, on whether the first set was timely received or at least one terminal condition at the client device changed, and
- rendering, by a processing unit, a media content stream, wherein the first and second time windows are each the time to render a portion of a set of the multi media information layers, by combining the portions of the first set of multiple media information layers and combining the portions of the second set of the multiple media information layers.
An article comprising one or more non-transitory computer readable media having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
- obtain, in a first time window, portions of a first set of the multiple media information layers;
- obtain, in a second time window after the first time window, portions of a second set of the multiple media information layers, the second set differing from the first set depending, at least in part, on whether the first set was timely received or at least one terminal condition at the client device changed;
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- render, by a processing unit, a media content stream, wherein the first and second time windows are each the time to render a portion of a set of the multi media information layers, by combining the portions of the first set of multiple media information layers and combining the portions of the second set of the multiple media information layers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.