System, method, and apparatus for providing massively scaled down video using iconification

Abstract

Presented herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for simultaneously providing full size video and massively scaled down video using inconification. In one embodiment, there is presented a method for providing a video output. The method comprises decoding an encoded picture, thereby resulting in a decoded picture; reducing the decoded picture, thereby resulting in a reduced picture; storing the reduced picture; and encoding the reduced picture, thereby resulting in a synthetic picture.

1 . A method for providing a video output, said method comprising:
 decoding an encoded picture, thereby resulting in a decoded picture;   reducing the decoded picture, thereby resulting in a reduced picture;   storing the reduced picture; and   encoding the reduced picture, thereby resulting in a synthetic picture.   
   
   
       2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 decoding the synthetic picture, thereby resulting in a decoded synthetic picture.   
   
   
       3 . The method of  claim 2 , further comprising:
 reducing the synthetic picture, thereby resulting in a reduced synthetic picture; and   storing the reduced synthetic picture.   
   
   
       4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein generating a reduced picture further comprises:
 averaging horizontally adjacent pixels in the decoded picture.   
   
   
       5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein encoding the reduced picture further comprises:
 predicting the synthetic picture from the reduced picture.   
   
   
       6 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the reduced picture comprises motion vectors equal to zero a prediction error equal to zero. 
   
   
       7 . A decoder system for providing a video output, said decoder system comprising:
 a video decoder for decoding an encoded picture, thereby resulting in a decoded picture and reducing the decoded picture, thereby resulting in a reduced picture;   memory for storing the reduced picture; and   a synthetic picture generator for encoding the reduced picture, thereby resulting in a synthetic picture.   
   
   
       8 . The decoder system of  claim 7 , wherein the video decoder decodes the synthetic picture, thereby resulting in a decoded synthetic picture. 
   
   
       9 . The decoder system of  claim 8 , wherein the video decoder reduces the synthetic picture, thereby resulting in a reduced synthetic picture and wherein the memory stores the reduced synthetic picture. 
   
   
       10 . The decoder system of  claim 7 , wherein generating a reduced picture further comprises averaging horizontally adjacent pixels in the decoded picture. 
   
   
       11 . The decoder system of  claim 7 , wherein encoding the reduced picture further comprises:
 predicting the synthetic picture from the reduced picture.   
   
   
       12 . The decoder system of  claim 11 , wherein the reduced picture comprises motion vectors equal to zero a prediction error equal to zero.