A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PACKETIZATION OF IMAGE CODE STREAM SEGMENTS

摘要

A method and apparatus (52) analyze a compressed image code stream to determine logical boundaries of segments and parse the data stream into packets, wherein the packets are configured to reduce a number of partial logical segments in individual packets.The method is preferably carried out in a real-time lossy transmission environment. Packets have a predetermined equal size. Segments have an arbitrary size which is dependent upon a quantity of data contained within each segment. Each segment may contain different pieces of information having different levels of importance relative to the quality of the image to be displayed.