MULTIMEDIA ENCODING METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON MULTIMEDIA CONTENT CHARACTERISTICS, AND A MULTIMEDIA DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON MULTIMEDIA CONTENT CHARACTERISTICS

摘要

The present invention relates to the encoding and decoding of multimedia data. The present invention concerns a multimedia encoding system wherein: multimedia data is input; the multimedia data is analysed and characteristics information is detected, which characteristics information is used for the management or searching of multimedia based on predetermined characteristics of the multimedia contents; and an encoding system is determined based on the multimedia characteristics, through the use of the characteristics information for multimedia management or searching.