WO1999052298A1 - Improvements relating to audio-video delay - Google Patents
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- WO1999052298A1 WO1999052298A1 PCT/GB1999/001041 GB9901041W WO9952298A1 WO 1999052298 A1 WO1999052298 A1 WO 1999052298A1 GB 9901041 W GB9901041 W GB 9901041W WO 9952298 A1 WO9952298 A1 WO 9952298A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
- H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
- H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
- H04N21/4302—Content synchronisation processes, e.g. decoder synchronisation
- H04N21/4307—Synchronising the rendering of multiple content streams or additional data on devices, e.g. synchronisation of audio on a mobile phone with the video output on the TV screen
- H04N21/43072—Synchronising the rendering of multiple content streams or additional data on devices, e.g. synchronisation of audio on a mobile phone with the video output on the TV screen of multiple content streams on the same device
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- This invention relates to the processing of audio and video signals.
- a common problem in the broadcast environment is the difference in delay experienced by the audio and video processes. With many new digital video processes in the signal chain and the consequential need for re- synchronisation, the delay of the video may often differ significantly from that of the audio. This causes the well known lip-sync error problem.
- a video synchroniser operates by re-timing and, where necessary, either dropping or inserting fields.
- Each video synchroniser may therefore add up to 40ms of video delay in a 50 field per second system such as PAL or 34ms in NTSC or other 60Hz systems. The precise delay will depend on often arbitrary system clocks. In new installations the audio is often "embedded" in the video channel and so when passing through the synchroniser it will experience the same delay as the video.
- the present invention consists in one aspect in a digital video synchronisation process in which digital video and audio signals are delayed by the same varying amount to ensure synchronisation with a timing reference and, on dropping or repeating of a video field, the audio signal is time compressed or expanded to recover audio/video synchronisation over a time period governed by the maximum acceptable pitch change or other 2 degradation, characterised in that the trend in delay is monitored to enable prediction of the dropping or repeating of a video field and in that said time compression or expansion is initiated a selected time interval in advance thereof.
- this time interval is selected to minimise the perceived loss of audio/video synchronisation. That is to say, regard is had to the asymmetry in the thresholds for perceived loss of synchronisation for advanced and retarded audio.
- the video synchroniser shown in the drawing receives a digital video input signal with embedded audio and provides as an output synchronised with an externally generated timing reference, a digital video signal, again with embedded audio.
- Digital video first passes into block 10; this extracts the audio data and the timing signals.
- Video passes to the main memory 12 to be delayed until it is co-timed with the output timing signal extracted by block 14 from the reference input.
- Block 16 measures the delay between the input and output timing signals and passes this figure to a microprocessor 18. The calculated delay is passed to the audio data memory 20.
- the audio data and video data memories now give an identical delay.
- a re-sampling digital filter 22 alters the audio data sampling rate to match the outgoing video in order that the audio data can be synchronously inserted by block 24 into the outgoing video data stream.
- a synchroniser such as this when its input and output timing references are of a different frequency, as is usual, will occasionally drop or repeat a video frame. In effect, it gains or loses 40ms (at 50Hz). Whereas the resulting picture disturbance is often imperceptible, the same is not true for audio - it is not possible to cut or add 40ms of audio without major disturbance.
- a typical implementation will compensate by re-sampling the audio to a higher or lower frequency.
- the microprocessor 18 will initiate a process of reading extra audio samples from the audio memory 20.
- a pitch change results, but if this is kept to less than 1%, it is unlikely to be noticed.
- the audio will initially be adrift by a noticeable 40ms.
- 8 seconds assuming 0.5% pitch change
- the audio and video will once again be co-timed.
- the microprocessor 18 will continually monitor the video delay and calculate the rate of change of delay over time.
- the processor will initiate an increase in the audio delay to give a 0.5% pitch change.
- the audio will be 30ms (at 50Hz) delayed with respect to the video. If the above discussed thresholds for perception of an audio delay are correct, this loss in synchronisation is imperceptible. Immediately after the frame loss the audio will be 10ms early. If the above- discussed thresholds for perception of an audio advance are correct, this loss in synchronisation is similarly imperceptible.
- the audio and video will be co-timed.
- the pitch change and the balance between worst case advance and delay may be controlled by the user.
- Use of the invention has in this example and on the assumed perception thresholds, replaced a synchronisation error which is perceptible for up to 6 seconds, by a synchronisation error which is not perceptible at all.
- rate conversion is only one example of a technique for time compression or expansion of the audio signal.
- Numerous alternative techniques, such as silence compression, will be known to the skilled reader and fall within the scope of the claimed invention.
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EP1289305A2 (en) * | 2001-08-07 | 2003-03-05 | Hitachi Ltd. | Digital signal processing device, DV decoder, recording device using DV decoder, and signal processing method |
EP1289305A3 (en) * | 2001-08-07 | 2005-10-05 | Hitachi Ltd. | Digital signal processing device, DV decoder, recording device using DV decoder, and signal processing method |
EP1414247A3 (en) * | 2002-10-22 | 2004-05-19 | Broadcom Corporation | Data rate management system and method for A/V decoder |
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