IP Library Granted Patent US 7,324,738
Granted Patent B2
US 7,324,738 · App. 10/932,082 · Granted Jan 29, 2008

Video stream processing apparatus and video stream processing method

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Patent No.
US 7,324,738
App. No.
10/932,082
Granted
Jan 29, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image-quality control information adding section 13 reads image-quality control information corresponding to a type of an input video stream 101 from an image-quality control information storage section 12 , and then adds the read image-quality control information to the video stream 101 . A recording section 43 records a video stream 104 with the image-quality control information added thereto. An image-quality control information extracting section 22 extracts a video profile 202 from the video stream 201 read from the recording section 43 . Based on the video stream after the video profile 202 is extracted, a decoding section 23 obtains a video signal 205 . An image quality adjusting section 24 adjusts the characteristic of the video signal 205 based on the video profile 202 , and then outputs the adjustment results as a video signal 206 after image quality adjustment.

Claims (55)

1. A video stream processing apparatus which performs a predetermined process on an encoded video signal stream, comprising:

an image-quality control information storage section for storing image-quality control information predetermined for each type of a video stream;

an image-quality control information adding section for reading the image-quality control information corresponding to a type of an input video stream from the image-quality control information storage section and adding the read image-quality control information to the video stream; and

a recording section for recording the video stream with the image-quality control information added thereto.

2. The video stream processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising

a storage medium control section for causing the image-quality control information stored in the image-quality control information storage section to be stored in a removable storage medium.

3. The video stream processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the image-quality control information adding section adds a plurality of pieces of said image-quality control information to the input video stream.

4. The video stream processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an image-quality control information extracting section for extracting the image-quality control information from the video stream read from the recording section;

a decoding section for obtaining a video signal based on the video stream after the image-quality control information is extracted; and

an image quality adjusting section for adjusting a characteristic of the video signal based on the image-quality control information extracted by the image-quality control information extracting section.

5. The video stream processing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein

the video signal with the characteristic being adjusted by the image quality adjusting section is output to a display unit externally connected to the video stream processing apparatus.

6. The video stream processing apparatus according to claim 4 , further comprising

a display section for displaying a screen based on the video signal with the characteristic being adjusted by the image quality adjusting section.

7. The video stream processing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein

the image-quality control information adding section adds a plurality of pieces of said image-quality control information to the input video stream, and

the image quality adjusting section adjusts the characteristic of the video signal based on one piece of image-quality control information selected from the plurality of pieces of said image-quality control information extracted by the image-quality control information extracting section.

8. A video stream processing apparatus which performs a predetermined process on an encoded video signal stream, comprising:

a video stream recording section for recording a video stream with image-quality control information, said video stream recording section including an image-quality control information storage section for storing the image-quality control information predetermined for each type of a video stream;

an image-quality control information extracting section for extracting image-quality control information from an input video stream;

a decoding section for obtaining a video signal based on the video stream after the image-quality control information is extracted; and

an image quality adjusting section for adjusting a characteristic of the video signal based on the image-quality control information extracted by the image-quality control information extracting section.

9. The video stream processing apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein

the video signal with the characteristic being adjusted by the image quality adjusting section is output to a display unit externally connected to the video stream processing apparatus.

10. The video stream processing apparatus according to claim 8 , further comprising

a display section for displaying a screen based on the video signal with the characteristic being adjusted by the image quality adjusting section.

11. The video stream processing apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein

the input video stream has a plurality of pieces of said image-quality control information added thereto, and

the image quality adjusting section adjusts the characteristic of the video signal based on one piece of image-quality control information selected from the plurality of pieces of said image-quality control information extracted by the image-quality control information extracting section.

12. A video stream processing method of performing a predetermined process on an encoded video signal stream, comprising the steps of:

storing image-quality control information predetermined for each type of a video stream;

reading the image-quality control information corresponding to a type of an input video stream and adding the read image-quality control information to the video stream; and

recording the video stream with the image-quality control information added thereto.

13. The video stream processing method according to claim 12 , further comprising the steps of:

extracting the image-quality control information from the recorded video stream;

obtaining a video signal based on the video stream after the image-quality control information is extracted; and

adjusting a characteristic of the video signal based on the extracted image-quality control information.

14. A video stream processing method of performing a predetermined process on an encoded video signal stream, comprising the steps of:

storing image-quality control information predetermined for each type of video stream and recording a video stream with the image-quality control information to for an input video stream; extracting image-quality information from the input video stream;

extracting image-quality control information from an input video stream;

obtaining a video signal based on the video stream after the image-quality control information is extracted; and

adjusting a characteristic of the video signal based on the extracted image-quality control information.

15. A removable storage medium embodied with a computer program causing a computer to perform a predetermined process on an encoded video signal stream, the program comprising the steps of:

storing image-quality control information predetermined for each type of a video stream;

reading the image-quality control information corresponding to a type of an input video stream and adding the read image-quality control information to the video stream; and

recording the video stream with the image-quality control information added thereto.

16. The removable storage medium embodied with a computer program according to claim 15 , further comprising the steps of:

extracting the image-quality control information from the recorded video stream;

obtaining a video signal based on the video stream after the image-quality control information is extracted; and

adjusting a characteristic of the video signal based on the extracted image-quality control information.

17. The removable storage medium embodied with a computer program causing a computer to perform a predetermined process on an encoded video signal stream, the program comprising the steps of: storing image-quality control information predetermined for each type of video stream and recording a video stream with the image-quality control information to for an input video stream; extracting image-quality information from the input video stream;

obtaining a video signal based on the video stream after the image-quality control information is extracted; and

adjusting a characteristic of the video signal based on the extracted image-quality control information.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 31, 2018
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: SOVEREIGN PEAK VENTURES, LLC
Reel/Frame 047914/0675 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 29, 2018
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 047346/0494 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 18, 2004
From: SUGIMOTO, KOJI
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 016005/0170 →