System for cloud streaming service, method for same using still-image compression technique and apparatus therefor
The present invention relates to a system for a cloud streaming service, a method for same using a still-image compression technique and an apparatus therefor, particularly the method allowing a still image-based cloud streaming service by comparing the previous frame and current frame to determine and capture the region in the current frame which has changed from the previous frame, and transmitting, to a user, the changed region encoded with the still-image compression technique. By utilizing a still-image compression technique appropriate to the image type when providing the cloud streaming service, the compression efficiency of the still image and the speed of the cloud streaming service can be improved.
1. A cloud streaming server comprising: a memory;
a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory and to: communicate with a user device via a network;
determine a changed region of a current frame changed from a previous frame by comparing the current frame with the previous frame;
capture the changed region;
perform a still image encoding of the changed region corresponding to one frame by using a still image compression technique: and
perform a cloud streaming service based on a still image by sending the still-image-encoded changed region to the user device,
wherein the processor is further configured to:
identify an application type of the user device from an input signal of the user device, wherein the application type of the user device comprises a static type and a dynamic type;
detect a section having a less frame change than a predetermined value from among all frames transmitted to the user device when the application type of the user device is identified to be the static type;
capture the changed region in the detected section; and
select the still image compression technique in accordance with an image type determined by considering one or more of the number of colors of an image corresponding to the changed region and a standard deviation of pixel values of the image.
2. The cloud streaming server of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
calculate a differential frame between the previous frame and the current frame; and
determine the changed region by using the differential frame.
3. The cloud streaming server of claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to determine the changed region by detecting a changed pixel of the current frame changed from the previous frame through a scanning of the differential frame.
4. The cloud streaming server of claim 3 , wherein the processor is further configured to determine the changed region containing changed pixels detected through a horizontal scanning and a vertical scanning of the differential frame.
5. The cloud streaming server of claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
obtain a first vertical coordinate element from a changed pixel firstly detected through the horizontal scanning of the differential frame on row-by-row basis from top to bottom;
obtain a second vertical coordinate element from a changed pixel firstly detected through the horizontal scanning of the differential frame on a row-by-row basis from bottom to top;
obtain a first horizontal coordinate element from a changed pixel firstly detected through the vertical scanning of the differential frame on a column-by-column basis from left to right;
obtain a second horizontal coordinate element from a changed pixel firstly detected through the vertical scanning of the differential frame on a column-by-column basis from right to left; and
determine, as the changed region, a rectangular region containing a changed pixel corresponding to a coordinate formed by a pair of one of the horizontal coordinate elements and one of the vertical coordinate elements.