System and method for scheduling and processing image and sound

Details System and method for scheduling and processing image and sound System and method for scheduling and processing image and sound

1996-11-25

1999-09-14

Rinehart, Mark H.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer-to-computer protocol implementing

Computer-to-computer data streaming

709236, 370510, G06F 1338, G06F 1517

Patent

active

059516461

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for scheduling temporal data and non-temporal data to create a unified stream of data that includes both the temporal and non-temporal data and for processing the unified data stream. The temporal and non-temporal data is preferably in a compressed format. The system preferably includes a scheduler that takes temporal data (e.g., sound data) and non-temporal data (e.g., image data) and interleaves them together to form the unified data stream. The system also includes a processor that decompresses the compressed image data and produces an output image from both the decompressed image data and any uncompressed image data. The processor also plays the temporal data while it concurrently decompresses the compressed temporal data. The system can handle temporal data in any format, including voice data and MIDI files, as well as any type of image data, including videos and still images. Also disclosed is a method for scheduling and playing video data and sound data (including MIDI and voice) forming a computer slide-show, in which the video and sound data are interleaved into a unified data stream.

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