DEVICE FOR CONVERTING BIFS TEXT FORMAT INTO BIFS BINARY FORMAT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device capable of converting a BIFS text format into a BIFS binary format.;SOLUTION: This 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-processor 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.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO