Load-balancing technology of multi-stream decoding for simultaneous browsing of video contents

Abstract

The multiple display function by a plurality of video thumbnails is useful as intuitive User Interface in the video access that users select video contents of their desire, because of it's possibility of making their potential needs for the video contents actualized. However, real-time generation of the video thumbnails corresponding to a lot of video contents needs huge amount of processing. In this research, we propose the method of decoding multiple streams that can decrease the amount of processing for decoding of multiple video streams and deal with a temporary increase of processing load. Especially, we investigate the load-balancing technology that make the amount of processing uniform by adjusting the processing load of decoding that changes time-wise, and verify the effect of the technology.