Methods and devices for adapting the rate of video content streaming [patent]
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Publication date

October 20, 2020

Inventors

Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Bo Han, Jackson Jarrell Pair, Vikash Sharma, Feng Qian (assistant professor)

Abstract

Aspects of the subject application may include, for example, identifying FOV and OOS tiles of the video content. The FOV and OOS tiles are received from a video server. The FOV and OOS tiles are encoded using AVC and a first layer of SVC, respectively. Further embodiments include providing the FOV and OOS tiles for presentation on a display, detecting a change in a field of vision, and identifying other FOV tiles of the video content, which comprise a portion of the OOS tiles. Also, embodiments include requesting the portion of the OOS tiles and receiving the portion of the OOS tiles from the video server over the communication network, which are encoded using an enhancement layer of SVC and then provided, to the display, according the enhancement layer in conjunction with the providing of the OOS tiles according to the first layer. Other embodiments are described herein.

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Methods and devices for adapting the rate of video content streaming

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