Title: Device for converting text format into binary format
Application Number: 02121702 Application Date: 2002.04.20
Publication Number: 1383080 Publication Date: 2002.12.04
Approval Pub. Date: Granted Pub. Date:
International Classifi-cation: G06F17/21;G06T9/00;H04L12/00
Applicant(s) Name: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Address:
Inventor(s) Name: L.M.O. Dukuisnois
Attorney & Agent: chen ji
Abstract:
    The invention relates to the field of describing multimedia scenes. A data stream in the BIFS format 121 comprises, in conventional manner, two types of data, descriptions of the scenes 122 and commands 123. According to the invention, a data-processing device intended to convert data from a first format, for example, the BIFS text format, into a second format, for example, the BIFS binary format, comprises a scene transcoder 101 intended to convert the descriptions of the scenes 122 from the first format into the second format, and a command transcoder 111 intended to convert the commands 123 from the first format into the second format and having access to information comprised in the scene description. The invention is particularly interesting for conceiving descriptions of multimedia scenes using, for example, the MPEG4 standard.
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