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- the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing audio-visual information, and more specifically, to a method and apparatus for dynamic digital content generation for presentation by a digital media server.
- Digital vide is often first recorded in traditional analog form. It is encoded, or digitized, and compressed into a digital format that can be stored on disk and decoded during playback. For example, using techniques well understood by those in the art a show broadcast over analog television may be converted into a digital format by using a device called an encoder.
- DVB Digital Video Broadcasting
- DVB is a set of standards for transmitting compressed digitized video over broadcast industry transmission channels, such as cable, satellite, or terrestrial transmissions. Further information about the DVB standard may be obtained at the Internet web address “www.dvb.com”.
- ATSC is another standard for transmitting video that is used primarily in digital high definition television (HDTV), standard definition television (SDTV), data broadcasting, multi-channel surround-sound audio, and satellite direct-to-home broadcasting. Further information on the ATSC standard may be found at the Internet web address “www.atsc.org”.
- Analog video may be encoded, or digitized, into a digital format conforming to the above standards through the use of an encoder.
- the set of standards that may be selectively implemented by the encoder during the digitization process are not limited to the above examples, and may include other standards such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, real player, or AVI.
- MPEG-1 MPEG-1
- MPEG-2 MPEG-2
- real player or AVI
- test content for a digital media system has not met the needs of designers and testers of digital media systems.
- one common method for generating a suite of test content involves the recording of original analog video, often time something as mundane as a stationary clock, with a standard VHS video recorder, and digitizing the resulting analog recording into a digital format. While this method does not require the licensing of intellectual property, as digitizing a segment of broadcast television would, it is still riddled with problems.
- the cause of any fluctuation in the quality of digital video presentation cannot be isolated to the digital media system, as the problem could have arisen in the quality of the original analog video.
- digital test content should test the constants of the digital media system by being rich in color, sound, and moving objects. Such conditions are impractical to record in real life with a standard VHS video recorder.
- test content Another approach in obtaining test content is to use a selection of pre-generated digital samples, such as those available on the Internet.
- pre-generated digital samples such as those available on the Internet.
- these selections are typically of extremely short duration, which severely restricts their value in testing.
- a suite of testing content should as much as possible exhaustively cover all the possible real world scenarios, which the small samplings of digital video available do not begin to address. Without varying the content in the digital content samples in the test suite, it is difficult to ensure that the fall spectrum of problems that a digital video server may encounter have been tested. Additionally, each of these selections of pre-generated digital samples is fixed in one digital format, and will not serve the need to test multiple digital formats.
- Such a method or system should allow one to configure the content of the digital video to rest all components of the digital video system as well as encode the digital video in a variety of digital formats.
- a configuration manager presents configuration options to a user corresponding to the content of a digital video presentation.
- the configuration manager records selected configuration options as user preferences.
- the user preferences are transferred to a media generator, which generates intermediate video content according to the received user preferences.
- the generated intermediate video content is then transferred to an encoder, which encodes the intermediate video content into a digital format specified in the user preferences.
- the media generator may be operatively connected to a local storage, which houses digital picture stills, video, and sound.
- the configuration manager presents the user with the option to select digital picture stills, video, and sound housed in the local storage in generating the new digital content.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram that illustrates a computer system upon which an embodiment of the invention may be implemented
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the functional components of a digital media generator according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a flow chart illustrating the steps of generating intermediate digital content.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram that illustrates a computer system 100 upon which an embodiment of the invention may be implemented.
- Computer system 100 includes a bus 102 or other communication mechanism for communication information, and a processor 104 coupled with bus 102 for prong information.
- Computer system 100 also includes a main memory 106 , such as a random access memory (RAM) or other dynamic storage device, coupled to bus 102 for storing information and instructions to be executed by processor 104 .
- Main memory 106 also may be used for storing teary variables or other intermediate information during execution of instructions to be executed by processor 104 .
- Computer system 101 further includes a read only memory (ROM) 108 or other static storage device coupled to bus 102 for storing static information and instructions for processor 104 .
- a storage device 110 such as a magnetic disk or optical disk, is provided and coupled to bus 102 for storing information and instructions.
- Computer system 100 may be coupled via bus 102 to a display 112 , such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), for displaying information to a computer user.
- a display 112 such as a cathode ray tube (CRT)
- An input device 114 is coupled to bus 102 for communing information and command selections to processor 104 .
- cursor control 116 is Another typo of user input device
- cursor control 116 such as a mouse, a trackball, or cursor direction keys for communicating direction information and command selections to processor 104 and for controlling cursor movement on display 112 .
- This input device typically has two degrees of freedom in two axes, a it axis (e.g., x) and a second axis (e.g., y), that allows the device to specify positions in a plane.
- the invention is related to the use of computer system 100 for generating a digital video content.
- a digital video content is provided by computer system 100 in response to processor 104 executing one or more sequences of one or more instructions contained in main memory 106 .
- Such instructions may be read into main memory 106 from another computer-readable medium, such as storage device 110 .
- Execution of the sequences of instructions contained in main memory 106 causes processor 104 to perform the process steps described herein.
- hard-wired circuitry may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement the invention.
- embodiments of the invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and software.
- the execution of the sequences of instructions required to practice the invention need not be performed by a single computer system 100 .
- the sequences of instructions required to practice the invention may be performed by a plurality of computer systems 100 connected to local network 122 , connected to the Internet 128 , or otherwise in data communication with each other.
- Non-volatile media includes, for example, optical or magnetic dims, such as storage device 110 .
- Volatile media includes dynamic memory, such as main memory 106 .
- Transmission media includes coaxial cables, copper wire and fiber optics, including the wires that comprise bus 102 . Transmission media can also take the form of acoustic or light waves, such as those generated radio-wave and infra-red data communications.
- Computer-readable media include, for example, a floppy disk, a flexible disk, hard disk, magnetic tape, or any other magnetic medium, a CD-ROM, any other optical medium, punchcards, papertape, any other physical medium with patterns of holes, a RAM, a PROM, and EPROM, a FLASH-EPROM, any other memory chip or cartridge, a carrier wave as described hereinafter, or any other medium from which a computer can rd.
- Various forms of computer readable media may be involved in caring one or more sequences of one or more instructions to processor 104 for execution.
- the instructions may initially be carried on a magnetic disk of a remote computer.
- the remote computer can load the instructions into its dynamic memory and send the instructions over a telephone line using a modem.
- a modem local to computer system 100 can receive the data on the telephone line and use an infra-red transmitter to convert the data to an infra-red signal.
- An infra-red detector can receive the data carried in the in infra-red signal and appropriate circuitry can place the data on bus 102 .
- Bus 102 carries the data to main memory 106 , from which processor 104 retrieves and executes the instructions.
- the instructions received by main memory 106 may optionally be stored on storage device 110 either before or after execution by processor 104 .
- Computer system 100 also includes a communication interface 118 coupled to bus 102 .
- Communication interface 118 provides a two-way data communication coupling to a network link 120 that is connected to a local network 122 .
- communication inter 118 may be an integrated services digit network (ISDN) card or a modem to provide a data communication connection to a corresponding type of telephone line.
- ISDN integrated services digit network
- communication interface 118 may be a local area network (LAN) card to provide a data communication connection to a compatible LAN.
- LAN local area network
- Wireless links may also be implemented.
- communication interface 118 sends and receives electrical, electromagnetic or optical signals that carry digital data streams representing various types of information.
- Network link 120 typically provides data communication trough one or more networks to other data devices.
- network link 120 may provide a connection through local network 122 to a host computer 124 or to data equipment operated by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) 126 .
- ISP 126 in turn provides data communication services through the world wide packet data communication network now commonly referred to as the “Internet” 128 .
- Internet 128 uses electrical, electromagnetic or optical signals that carry digital data streams.
- the signals through the various networks and the signals on network link 120 and through communication interface 118 which carry the digital data to and from computer system 100 , are exemplary forms of carrier waves transporting the information.
- Computer system 100 can send messages and receive data, including program code, through the network(s), network link 120 and communication interface 118 .
- a server 130 might transmit requested program code for an application program through Internet 128 , ISP 126 , local network 122 and communication interface 118 .
- the received code may be executed by processor 104 as it is received, and/or stored in storage device 110 , or other non-volatile so for later execution. In this manner, computer system 100 may obtain application code in the form of a carrier wave.
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a digital media generator 300 according to a principal aspect of the invention.
- a digital media generator 300 includes a configuration manager 310 , a media generator 320 , an optional local storage 330 , and an encoder 340 .
- a user 305 interacts with the digital media generator 300 through the configuration manger 310 .
- the configuration manger 310 is responsible representing the user 305 with a list of configuration options 350 which correspond to a manner in which a segment of customized digital video 365 may be configured.
- the configuration manger 310 exchanges data with the media generator 320 and encoder 340 to determine to composition of the list of configuration options 350 .
- the configuration manager 310 records the selection made by the user 305 from the list of configuration options 350 as user preferences 355 , which are transmitted to the media generator 320 .
- the media generator 320 is responsible for generating intermediate digital content 360 based upon the user preferences 355 .
- the media generator 320 may be coupled to local storage 330 .
- the local storage 330 stores digital sounds, still pictures, and video which are used by the media generator 320 in generating intermediate digital content 360 .
- Intermediate digital content 360 contains the desired content as selected by the user 305 , however, it has yet to be encoded in the desired digital format.
- the media generator 320 After the media generator 320 generates intermediate digital content 360 , it is transferred, along with the user preferences 355 , to the encoder 340 .
- Intermediate digital content 360 may be transferred in real time, or asynchronously over a network link 120 or transferred via a portable storage device.
- the encoder 340 is responsible for generating the segment of customized digital video 365 from intermediate digital content 360 based upon the format specified in the use preferences 355 .
- the segment of customized digital video 365 may thereafter be used to test a digital media system.
- the configuration manger 310 is responsible for presenting the user 305 with a list of configuration options 350 which correspond to a manner in which the segment of customized digital video 365 may be configured.
- a typical list of configuration options 350 include, but are not limited to: altering the background in the video, altering the number of objects displayed in the video, altering the shape of the objects displayed in the video, altering the color of the shapes in the video, altering the velocity of the shapes in the video, altering the trajectory of the shapes in the video, including a sound track or tone pattern in the video, and including a timestamp in the video.
- the user 305 may also indicate in the list of configuration options 350 time zones in which various parts of the system am simulated to operate. This information will be used by the media generator 320 to generate intermediate digital content 360 to test these conditions. Additionally, to aid in the scan operations, the list of configuration options 350 may include rate control markers, which alter the background color briefly at set time intervals.
- the list of configuration options 350 is generated by the configuration manager 310 based upon information received from the media generator 320 about the current capability of the media generator 320 to generate digital video and information received from the encoder 340 on the types available digital formats supported by the encoder 340 .
- the configuration manager 310 should be updated when there is a change in the capacity of either the media generator 320 to generate digital video or the encoder 340 to support new digital formats. For example, such a change in the media generator 320 may include additional sound or video information stored with the local store 330 that can be selected by the user 305 in generating intermediate digital content 360 .
- the list of configuration options 350 may be presented to the use through any graphical user interface, such as an Internet web page or those used by common personal computer software and operating systems.
- the list of configuration options 350 may be transmitted to the user over any communication medium, such as the Internet or a proprietary Intranet.
- the list of configuration options 350 may be saved by the user 305 , and at a later date be loaded, edited, and saved again.
- the configuration manager 310 records selections made by the user 305 from the list of configuration options 350 as user preferences 355 .
- the user preferences 355 are transmitted to the media generator 320 when the user 305 indicates that video is to be generated.
- the media generator 320 is responsible for generating intermediate digital content 360 based upon the user preferences 355 .
- Intermediate digital content 360 is a series of uncompressed simple graphics (typically a series of bitmap files) that contain the characteristics indicated in the user preferences 355 .
- the intermediate digital content 360 may additionally contain sound if indicated in the user preferences 355 .
- the media generator 320 may optionally be operatively connected to a local storage 330 , which houses digital sounds, still pictures, and video.
- the local storage 330 can be any component well known to those in the art for storing electronic information, such as a database.
- the media generator 320 loads the user preferences 355 .
- the digital sounds, still pictures, and video needed to satisfy the requirements of the user preferences 355 stored in local storage 330 are identified by the media generator 320 .
- the media generator 320 loads the identified digital sounds, still pictures and video. Once loaded, the media generator 320 uses these digital sounds, still pit, and video to create the content arrangement specified in the user preferences 355 .
- the media generator can construct digital content in any of the well known methods in the art as changing background color, incorporating and manipulating texts generating shapes and figs, and other such functionality typical of graphics manipulation software packages, such as AutoCad by AutoDesk, Inc. or Corel Draw by Corel Corporation.
- the media generator 320 may also include functionality to synthesize or generate sound dynamically according to input from the user 305 .
- the configuration manager 310 may present the user 305 configuration options 350 to dynamically generate or record sound.
- the generated sound may be stored in the local storage 305 and used by the encoder 340 in the generation of the segment of customized digital video 365 .
- the content arrangement is saved by the media generator 320 as intermediate digital content 360 .
- the intermediate digital content 360 can be saved in any format that the encoder 340 can read, such as a series of bitmap files.
- the media generator 320 may use a system clock to place a visible timestamp in the intermediate digital content 360 . This would allow testers of the digital media system to visually inspect the digital video during normal play and seek operations to ensure proper functioning of the digital media system.
- the intermediate digital content 360 is of a fixed length.
- the intermediate digital content 360 may be transferred to the encoder 340 immediately or saved for transfer at a later date.
- the intermediate digital content 360 has no fixed length, and is continually generated by the media generator 320 .
- the encoder 340 encodes the intermediate digital content 360 as it is received in real time.
- the encoder 340 is responsible for generating the segment of customized digital video 365 from the segment of intermediate digital video 360 based upon the format specified in the user preferences 355 .
- This format may be of any form.
- the encoded format may include MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, or QuickTime, the DVB standard, or the ATSC standard.
- a suitable encoder for use in the present invention is MegaPEG from Digigami, Inc. located physically in San Diego, Calif., and on the Internet at “www.digigami.com”.
- Another suitable encode for use in the present invention is Light Speed MPEG Encoder from Ligos Technology located physically in San Francisco, Calif., and on the Internet at “www.ligos.com”.
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A method and apparatus is provided for dynamically generating digital video streams without an equivalent analog stream. The apparatus includes a configuration manager. The configuration manager presents configuration options to a user. User selections are recording as user preferences. The configuration manager is coupled to a media generator, which generates intermediate digital content based upon the user preferences. The media generator may be coupled to a local storage for storing electronic audio and visual information. The intermediate digital content is transferred to an encoder, which encodes the intermediate digital content to a digital format specified by in the user preferences.
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- The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing audio-visual information, and more specifically, to a method and apparatus for dynamic digital content generation for presentation by a digital media server.
- In recent years, the media industry has adopted digital technologies to record and play numerous types of media, such as audio, still photographs, and moving video. The use of digital video has become increasingly prevalent in today's society. This phenomenon is not without warrant, as digital video provides numerous advantages over analog video. As users of the popular DVD format well know, digital video does not degrade from repeated use. Digital video can also either be delivered for presentation all at once, as when loaded by a DVD player, or delivered in a stream as needed. Today, digital media systems are available to deliver and present digital content to viewers in increasing numbers. However, the digital content needed to develop and test these digital media systems is in short supply.
- Digital vide is often first recorded in traditional analog form. It is encoded, or digitized, and compressed into a digital format that can be stored on disk and decoded during playback. For example, using techniques well understood by those in the art a show broadcast over analog television may be converted into a digital format by using a device called an encoder.
- However, while the practice of converting analog video presentations into digital form may be well understood, it is not practical for either testing or commercial purposes. The intellectual property rights of the original owners of the analog video must be respected, and only those individuals who have obtained the rights to the analog media presentation are authorized to use the converted digital presentation for private use.
- During testing of a digital media system it is necessary to have ample amounts of digital video to sufficiently test all components of the digital media system. Prior attempts to generate substantial amounts of digital content to facilitate system testing have met with limited success. As mentioned earlier, digitalizing analog video is cost prohibitive, due to the licensing of intellectual property. Also, as it was not originally contemplated for digital presentation, the content available in analog broadcasts is neither well suited nor of sufficient complexity to test the performance of a digital media system. Further, testing fats such as fast forward or rewind is difficult at best without specific temporal information visible in the presentation. Such temporal information may include the time the presentation was encoded, the time the presentation was delivered by the server, and the time the presentation was received by the client. Without such information, it is difficult to determine the accuracy of a fist forward or rewind operation, or the lag time in the digital media system when delivering frames of video.
- Content for digital media testing also needs to conform to certain standards. One popular stank for digital media is DVB, or Digital Video Broadcasting. DVB is a set of standards for transmitting compressed digitized video over broadcast industry transmission channels, such as cable, satellite, or terrestrial transmissions. Further information about the DVB standard may be obtained at the Internet web address “www.dvb.com”. ATSC is another standard for transmitting video that is used primarily in digital high definition television (HDTV), standard definition television (SDTV), data broadcasting, multi-channel surround-sound audio, and satellite direct-to-home broadcasting. Further information on the ATSC standard may be found at the Internet web address “www.atsc.org”.
- Analog video may be encoded, or digitized, into a digital format conforming to the above standards through the use of an encoder. The set of standards that may be selectively implemented by the encoder during the digitization process are not limited to the above examples, and may include other standards such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, real player, or AVI. As there are numerous digital media standards, and that number will likely only grow in the coming years, the need to generate content for a digital media system conforming to a variety of format standards will accordingly grow.
- Current methods of generating test content for a digital media system have not met the needs of designers and testers of digital media systems. For example, one common method for generating a suite of test content involves the recording of original analog video, often time something as mundane as a stationary clock, with a standard VHS video recorder, and digitizing the resulting analog recording into a digital format. While this method does not require the licensing of intellectual property, as digitizing a segment of broadcast television would, it is still riddled with problems. First, as with any digitized analog recording, the cause of any fluctuation in the quality of digital video presentation cannot be isolated to the digital media system, as the problem could have arisen in the quality of the original analog video. Second, digital test content should test the constants of the digital media system by being rich in color, sound, and moving objects. Such conditions are impractical to record in real life with a standard VHS video recorder. Third, without information identifying each frame of digital video, it is difficult to test scan operations as well as isolating delays in the digital media system in presenting digital video. While content in the video, such as the clock face, can be used to generally determine that a fist forward or rewind operation worked, it does not provide any frame specific information which is needed to accurately determine the success of a jump in time or isolate delays in presentation throughout the digital media system.
- Another approach in obtaining test content is to use a selection of pre-generated digital samples, such as those available on the Internet. However, in addition to encountering the problems mentioned above of licensing intellectual property, ad lacking fame specific information, these selections are typically of extremely short duration, which severely restricts their value in testing. Further, a suite of testing content should as much as possible exhaustively cover all the possible real world scenarios, which the small samplings of digital video available do not begin to address. Without varying the content in the digital content samples in the test suite, it is difficult to ensure that the fall spectrum of problems that a digital video server may encounter have been tested. Additionally, each of these selections of pre-generated digital samples is fixed in one digital format, and will not serve the need to test multiple digital formats.
- Given the inefficiencies of the cut method of digital content generation and testing there has been a long felt nee therefore, for a method or apparatus for generating original digital content that addresses the above needs for testing a digital media system. Such a method or system should allow one to configure the content of the digital video to rest all components of the digital video system as well as encode the digital video in a variety of digital formats.
- A method and apparatus for dynamically generating digital content is descried. According to a primary aspect of the invention, a configuration manager presents configuration options to a user corresponding to the content of a digital video presentation. The configuration manager records selected configuration options as user preferences. The user preferences are transferred to a media generator, which generates intermediate video content according to the received user preferences. The generated intermediate video content is then transferred to an encoder, which encodes the intermediate video content into a digital format specified in the user preferences.
- According to another aspect of the invention, the media generator may be operatively connected to a local storage, which houses digital picture stills, video, and sound. The configuration manager presents the user with the option to select digital picture stills, video, and sound housed in the local storage in generating the new digital content.
- The present invention is illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings and in which like reference numerals refer to similar elements and in which:
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram that illustrates a computer system upon which an embodiment of the invention may be implemented; -
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the functional components of a digital media generator according to an embodiment of the present invention; and -
FIG. 3 is a flow chart illustrating the steps of generating intermediate digital content. - In the following description, for the purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set fort in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the present invention.
- In the following description, the various functions shall be discussed under topic headings that appear in the following order.
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram that illustrates acomputer system 100 upon which an embodiment of the invention may be implemented.Computer system 100 includes abus 102 or other communication mechanism for communication information, and aprocessor 104 coupled withbus 102 for prong information.Computer system 100 also includes amain memory 106, such as a random access memory (RAM) or other dynamic storage device, coupled tobus 102 for storing information and instructions to be executed byprocessor 104.Main memory 106 also may be used for storing teary variables or other intermediate information during execution of instructions to be executed byprocessor 104. Computer system 101 further includes a read only memory (ROM) 108 or other static storage device coupled tobus 102 for storing static information and instructions forprocessor 104. Astorage device 110, such as a magnetic disk or optical disk, is provided and coupled tobus 102 for storing information and instructions. -
Computer system 100 may be coupled viabus 102 to adisplay 112, such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), for displaying information to a computer user. Aninput device 114, including alphanumeric and other keys, is coupled tobus 102 for communing information and command selections toprocessor 104. Another typo of user input device iscursor control 116, such as a mouse, a trackball, or cursor direction keys for communicating direction information and command selections toprocessor 104 and for controlling cursor movement ondisplay 112. This input device typically has two degrees of freedom in two axes, a it axis (e.g., x) and a second axis (e.g., y), that allows the device to specify positions in a plane. - The invention is related to the use of
computer system 100 for generating a digital video content. According to one embodiment of the invention, a digital video content is provided bycomputer system 100 in response toprocessor 104 executing one or more sequences of one or more instructions contained inmain memory 106. Such instructions may be read intomain memory 106 from another computer-readable medium, such asstorage device 110. Execution of the sequences of instructions contained inmain memory 106 causesprocessor 104 to perform the process steps described herein. In alternative embodiments, hard-wired circuitry may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement the invention. Thus, embodiments of the invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and software. - The execution of the sequences of instructions required to practice the invention need not be performed by a
single computer system 100. The sequences of instructions required to practice the invention may be performed by a plurality ofcomputer systems 100 connected tolocal network 122, connected to theInternet 128, or otherwise in data communication with each other. - The term “computer-readable medium” as used herein refers to any medium that participates in providing instructions to
processor 104 for execution. Such a medium may take many forms, including but not limited to, non-volatile media, volatile media, and transmission media. Non-volatile media includes, for example, optical or magnetic dims, such asstorage device 110. Volatile media includes dynamic memory, such asmain memory 106. Transmission media includes coaxial cables, copper wire and fiber optics, including the wires that comprisebus 102. Transmission media can also take the form of acoustic or light waves, such as those generated radio-wave and infra-red data communications. - Common forms of computer-readable media include, for example, a floppy disk, a flexible disk, hard disk, magnetic tape, or any other magnetic medium, a CD-ROM, any other optical medium, punchcards, papertape, any other physical medium with patterns of holes, a RAM, a PROM, and EPROM, a FLASH-EPROM, any other memory chip or cartridge, a carrier wave as described hereinafter, or any other medium from which a computer can rd.
- Various forms of computer readable media may be involved in caring one or more sequences of one or more instructions to
processor 104 for execution. For example, the instructions may initially be carried on a magnetic disk of a remote computer. The remote computer can load the instructions into its dynamic memory and send the instructions over a telephone line using a modem. A modem local tocomputer system 100 can receive the data on the telephone line and use an infra-red transmitter to convert the data to an infra-red signal. An infra-red detector can receive the data carried in the in infra-red signal and appropriate circuitry can place the data onbus 102.Bus 102 carries the data tomain memory 106, from whichprocessor 104 retrieves and executes the instructions. The instructions received bymain memory 106 may optionally be stored onstorage device 110 either before or after execution byprocessor 104. -
Computer system 100 also includes acommunication interface 118 coupled tobus 102.Communication interface 118 provides a two-way data communication coupling to anetwork link 120 that is connected to alocal network 122. For example,communication inter 118 may be an integrated services digit network (ISDN) card or a modem to provide a data communication connection to a corresponding type of telephone line. As another example,communication interface 118 may be a local area network (LAN) card to provide a data communication connection to a compatible LAN. Wireless links may also be implemented. In any such implementation,communication interface 118 sends and receives electrical, electromagnetic or optical signals that carry digital data streams representing various types of information. - Network link 120 typically provides data communication trough one or more networks to other data devices. For example,
network link 120 may provide a connection throughlocal network 122 to ahost computer 124 or to data equipment operated by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) 126.ISP 126 in turn provides data communication services through the world wide packet data communication network now commonly referred to as the “Internet” 128.Local network 122 andInternet 128 both use electrical, electromagnetic or optical signals that carry digital data streams. The signals through the various networks and the signals onnetwork link 120 and throughcommunication interface 118, which carry the digital data to and fromcomputer system 100, are exemplary forms of carrier waves transporting the information. -
Computer system 100 can send messages and receive data, including program code, through the network(s),network link 120 andcommunication interface 118. In the Internet example, aserver 130 might transmit requested program code for an application program throughInternet 128,ISP 126,local network 122 andcommunication interface 118. - The received code may be executed by
processor 104 as it is received, and/or stored instorage device 110, or other non-volatile so for later execution. In this manner,computer system 100 may obtain application code in the form of a carrier wave. - Having thus described the physical environment upon which the invention may be practiced, the functional overview of the invention will now be presented.
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FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating adigital media generator 300 according to a principal aspect of the invention. As shown there adigital media generator 300 includes a configuration manager 310, amedia generator 320, an optionallocal storage 330, and anencoder 340. A user 305 interacts with thedigital media generator 300 through the configuration manger 310. The configuration manger 310 is responsible representing the user 305 with a list of configuration options 350 which correspond to a manner in which a segment of customizeddigital video 365 may be configured. The configuration manger 310 exchanges data with themedia generator 320 andencoder 340 to determine to composition of the list of configuration options 350. The configuration manager 310 records the selection made by the user 305 from the list of configuration options 350 asuser preferences 355, which are transmitted to themedia generator 320. - The
media generator 320 is responsible for generating intermediatedigital content 360 based upon theuser preferences 355. Themedia generator 320 may be coupled tolocal storage 330. Thelocal storage 330 stores digital sounds, still pictures, and video which are used by themedia generator 320 in generating intermediatedigital content 360. Intermediatedigital content 360 contains the desired content as selected by the user 305, however, it has yet to be encoded in the desired digital format. After themedia generator 320 generates intermediatedigital content 360, it is transferred, along with theuser preferences 355, to theencoder 340. Intermediatedigital content 360 may be transferred in real time, or asynchronously over anetwork link 120 or transferred via a portable storage device. - The
encoder 340 is responsible for generating the segment of customizeddigital video 365 from intermediatedigital content 360 based upon the format specified in theuse preferences 355. The segment of customizeddigital video 365 may thereafter be used to test a digital media system. - After had now described the functional overview of the
digital media generator 300 in general, the configuration manager 310,media generator 320, andencoder 340 will now each be explained in finer detail in the following sections. - As previously explained, the configuration manger 310 is responsible for presenting the user 305 with a list of configuration options 350 which correspond to a manner in which the segment of customized
digital video 365 may be configured. A typical list of configuration options 350 include, but are not limited to: altering the background in the video, altering the number of objects displayed in the video, altering the shape of the objects displayed in the video, altering the color of the shapes in the video, altering the velocity of the shapes in the video, altering the trajectory of the shapes in the video, including a sound track or tone pattern in the video, and including a timestamp in the video. - The user 305 may also indicate in the list of configuration options 350 time zones in which various parts of the system am simulated to operate. This information will be used by the
media generator 320 to generate intermediatedigital content 360 to test these conditions. Additionally, to aid in the scan operations, the list of configuration options 350 may include rate control markers, which alter the background color briefly at set time intervals. - The list of configuration options 350 is generated by the configuration manager 310 based upon information received from the
media generator 320 about the current capability of themedia generator 320 to generate digital video and information received from theencoder 340 on the types available digital formats supported by theencoder 340. The configuration manager 310 should be updated when there is a change in the capacity of either themedia generator 320 to generate digital video or theencoder 340 to support new digital formats. For example, such a change in themedia generator 320 may include additional sound or video information stored with thelocal store 330 that can be selected by the user 305 in generating intermediatedigital content 360. - The list of configuration options 350 may be presented to the use through any graphical user interface, such as an Internet web page or those used by common personal computer software and operating systems. The list of configuration options 350 may be transmitted to the user over any communication medium, such as the Internet or a proprietary Intranet. The list of configuration options 350 may be saved by the user 305, and at a later date be loaded, edited, and saved again.
- The configuration manager 310 records selections made by the user 305 from the list of configuration options 350 as
user preferences 355. Theuser preferences 355 are transmitted to themedia generator 320 when the user 305 indicates that video is to be generated. - The
media generator 320 is responsible for generating intermediatedigital content 360 based upon theuser preferences 355. Intermediatedigital content 360 is a series of uncompressed simple graphics (typically a series of bitmap files) that contain the characteristics indicated in theuser preferences 355. The intermediatedigital content 360 may additionally contain sound if indicated in theuser preferences 355. Themedia generator 320 may optionally be operatively connected to alocal storage 330, which houses digital sounds, still pictures, and video. Thelocal storage 330 can be any component well known to those in the art for storing electronic information, such as a database. - As
FIG. 3 illustrates, themedia generator 320 loads theuser preferences 355. Next, the digital sounds, still pictures, and video needed to satisfy the requirements of theuser preferences 355 stored inlocal storage 330 are identified by themedia generator 320. Next, themedia generator 320 loads the identified digital sounds, still pictures and video. Once loaded, themedia generator 320 uses these digital sounds, still pit, and video to create the content arrangement specified in theuser preferences 355. In addition to incorporating the sounds, still pictures, and video fromlocal storage 330, the media generator can construct digital content in any of the well known methods in the art as changing background color, incorporating and manipulating texts generating shapes and figs, and other such functionality typical of graphics manipulation software packages, such as AutoCad by AutoDesk, Inc. or Corel Draw by Corel Corporation. - The
media generator 320 may also include functionality to synthesize or generate sound dynamically according to input from the user 305. The configuration manager 310 may present the user 305 configuration options 350 to dynamically generate or record sound. The generated sound may be stored in the local storage 305 and used by theencoder 340 in the generation of the segment of customizeddigital video 365. - Finally, the content arrangement is saved by the
media generator 320 as intermediatedigital content 360. The intermediatedigital content 360 can be saved in any format that theencoder 340 can read, such as a series of bitmap files. - The
media generator 320 may use a system clock to place a visible timestamp in the intermediatedigital content 360. This would allow testers of the digital media system to visually inspect the digital video during normal play and seek operations to ensure proper functioning of the digital media system. - According to one embodiment of the present invention, the intermediate
digital content 360 is of a fixed length. The intermediatedigital content 360 may be transferred to theencoder 340 immediately or saved for transfer at a later date. In another embodiment, the intermediatedigital content 360 has no fixed length, and is continually generated by themedia generator 320. In his case theencoder 340 encodes the intermediatedigital content 360 as it is received in real time. - The
encoder 340 is responsible for generating the segment of customizeddigital video 365 from the segment of intermediatedigital video 360 based upon the format specified in theuser preferences 355. This format may be of any form. For example, the encoded format may include MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, or QuickTime, the DVB standard, or the ATSC standard. - A suitable encoder for use in the present invention is MegaPEG from Digigami, Inc. located physically in San Diego, Calif., and on the Internet at “www.digigami.com”. Another suitable encode for use in the present invention is Light Speed MPEG Encoder from Ligos Technology located physically in San Francisco, Calif., and on the Internet at “www.ligos.com”.
- In the foregoing specification, the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments thereof. It will, however, be evident that various modifications and changes may be made hereto without departing from the broader spirit and scope of the invention. The specification and drawings are, accordingly, to be regarded in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense.
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1. A method for generating a digital video stream, comprising:
at a media generator, generating intermediate digital content based on data that
indicates what content in said digital video stream
without digitizing an analog video stream;
transferring intermediate digital content to an encoder; and
at said encoder, encoding said intermediate digital content into said digital video stream.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the following steps that precede said step of generating intermediate digital content at a media generator;
presenting a user with a list of available configuration options;
recording a set of user preferences which correspond to said list of available
configuration options selected by said user;
transferring said set of user preferences to a media generator.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said data that indicates what content to include in said digital video stream includes at least one member selected from the group consisting of: a particular background color, a particular number of objects presented on screen, a particular color of objects presented on screen, a particular shape of objects presented on screen, a particular velocity of objects presented on screen, and a particular sound played during presentation.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein said media generator is operatively connected to a local storage, said local storage storing electronic still images or video.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein said step of generating intermediate digital content comprises said media generator retrieving digital pictures, video, or sound from said local storage.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said step of generating intermediate digital content includes said media generator generating at least one timestamp on one or more frames, wherein for each of said one or more frames said at least one timestamp indicates at least one member selected from the group consisting of: time said frame is encoded, time said frame is served by a digital video server, and time said frame is displayed by a client.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein said step of digitizing said segment of intermediate digital video into said digital video stream includes digitizing according to at least one member selected from the group consisting of: the DVB standard, the ATSC standard, the MPEG-1 standard, the MPEG-2 standard, the AVI standard, the QuickTime standard, and the MPEG-4 standard.
8. The method of claim 2 , wherein said step of presenting a user with a list of available configuration options is performed by presenting the user with one or more web pages.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein said step of transferring said set of user preferences to a media generator is performed over at least one member selected from the group consisting of: the Internet and a proprietary Intranet.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein said step of digitizing said segment of intermediate digital video into said digital video stream occurs in real time.
11. A computer-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for presenting dynamic content from a server to a client, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the steps of:
at a media generator, generating intermediate digital content based on data that
indicates what content to include in said digital video stream without digitizing an analog video stream;
transferring intermediate digital content to an encoder; and
at said encoder, encoding said intermediate digital content into said digital video stream.
12. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the following steps that precede said step of generating intermediate digital content at media generator:
presenting a user with a list of available configuration options;
recording a set of user preferences which correspond to said list of available
configuration options selected by said user;
transferring said set of user preferences to a media generator.
13. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein said data that indicates what content to include in said digital video stream includes at least one member selected from the group consisting of: a particular background color, a particular number of objects presented on screen, a particular color of objects presented on screen, a particular shape of objects presented on screen, a particular velocity of objects presented on screen, and a particular sound played during presentation.
14. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein said media generator is operatively connected to a local storage, said local storage storing electronic still images or video.
15. The computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein said step of generating intermediate digital content comprises said media generator retrieving digital pictures, video, or sound from said local storage.
16. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein said step of generating intermediate digital content includes said media generator generating at least one timestamp on one or more frames, wherein for each of said one or more frames said at least one timestamp indicates at least one member selected from the group consisting of: time said frame is encoded, time said frame is served by a digital video server, and time said frame is displayed by a client.
17. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein said step of digitizing said segment of intermediate digital video into said digital video stream includes digitalizing according to at least one member selected from the group consisting of: the DVB standard, the ATSC standard, the MPEG-1 standard, the MPEG-2 standard, the AVI standard, the QuickTime standard, and the MPEG-4 standard.
18. The computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein said step of presenting a user with a list of available configuration options is performed by presenting the user with one or more web pages.
19. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein said step of transferring said set of user preferences to a media generator is performed over at least one member selected from the group consisting of: the Internet and a proprietary Intranet.
20. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein said step of digitizing said segment of intermediate digital video into said digital video stream occurs in real time.
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