US 11,856,229 B2
Video data stream concept
Thomas Schierl, Berlin (DE); Valeri George, Berlin (DE); Anastasia Henkel, Berlin (DE); Detlev Marpe, Berlin (DE); Karsten Grueneberg, Berlin (DE); and Robert Skupin, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to GE Video Compression, LLC, Niskayuna, NY (US)
Filed by GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC, Albany, NY (US)
Filed on May 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/321,505.
Application 17/321,505 is a continuation of application No. 16/709,971, filed on Dec. 11, 2019, granted, now 11,025,958.
Application 16/709,971 is a continuation of application No. 16/392,785, filed on Apr. 24, 2019, granted, now 10,743,030, issued on Aug. 11, 2020.
Application 16/392,785 is a continuation of application No. 15/928,742, filed on Mar. 22, 2018, granted, now 10,484,716, issued on Nov. 19, 2019.
Application 15/928,742 is a continuation of application No. 14/578,814, filed on Dec. 22, 2014, granted, now 9,973,781, issued on May 15, 2018.
Application 14/578,814 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2013/063853, filed on Jul. 1, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/666,185, filed on Jun. 29, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2021/0274221 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 19/436 (2014.01); H04N 19/68 (2014.01); H04N 19/70 (2014.01); H04N 19/46 (2014.01); H04N 19/174 (2014.01); H04N 19/167 (2014.01); H04N 19/423 (2014.01); H04N 19/169 (2014.01); H04N 19/67 (2014.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/4728 (2011.01); H04N 19/55 (2014.01); H04N 19/91 (2014.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/54 (2022.01); H04L 47/31 (2022.01); H04L 47/10 (2022.01)
CPC H04N 19/68 (2014.11) [H04N 19/167 (2014.11); H04N 19/174 (2014.11); H04N 19/188 (2014.11); H04N 19/423 (2014.11); H04N 19/436 (2014.11); H04N 19/46 (2014.11); H04N 19/55 (2014.11); H04N 19/67 (2014.11); H04N 19/70 (2014.11); H04N 19/91 (2014.11); H04N 21/234327 (2013.01); H04N 21/4621 (2013.01); H04N 21/4728 (2013.01); G06F 15/173 (2013.01); H04L 12/56 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04L 47/10 (2013.01); H04L 47/31 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for decoding a data stream to reconstruct video content, comprising:
a buffer; and
a decoder configured for
extracting, from the data stream, a sequence of packets organized into a plurality of access units related to the video content, wherein each access unit includes one or more decoding units and each of the one or more decoding units includes at least one payload packet, and subsets of the sequence of packets are arranged in slices,
identifying, in each of the plurality of access units, a timing control packet corresponding to the one or more decoding units, wherein the timing control packet is indicative of a decoder buffer retrieval time by which content of the corresponding decoding unit is to be retrieved from the buffer,
retrieving, from the buffer, the content including the at least one payload packet of each decoding unit in accordance with a decoder buffer retrieval time associated with the decoding unit, wherein each packet of the sequence of packets includes a packet type field in a packet header of the respective packet, the packet type field for the at least one payload packet being different than the packet type field for the timing control packet, and
decoding the one or more decoding units using predictive decoding to reconstruct the video content.