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A system and method for browsing dynamic video information over a network includes selecting a small subset of frames from video shots and collections, using a threshold difference between two compared frames, to capture the dynamic content. Further selection and interleaving the selected frames within the shots and collections can be done to satisfy resource constraints like utilization of bandwidth. Interleaving is performed in storage and transmission of the frames to improve presentation of video information and to simultaneously display selected frames on a computer display to convey the dynamic of video. The system and method permit a dynamic summary of video information to be sent to a user over a network, while reducing resources (bandwidth) used by the network for the amount of information presented to the user.
1. A computer system comprising:
a memory storage containing one or more multimedia collections, each of the collections having one or more multimedia shots, each of the shots having one or more frames;
a selection process that selects a subset of one or more of the frames by traversing the frames of each of one or more of the shots in a time direction, any pair of adjacent frames in the subset having an intensity difference that is the same as the intensity difference between any other pair of adjacent frames in the subset, within a tolerance; and
a second selection process that selects a second subset of frames from the subset to satisfy a resource constraint.
2. A system, as in claim 1, where the resource constraint limits the total number of frames in the second subset.
3. A system, as in claim 2, where the constraint is any one or more of the following: a user response, a lack of user response, a bandwidth limitation, and a storage limitation.
4. A system, as in claim 2, where each of the adjacent frames in the second subset differs in intensity multiple of the intensity threshold within a second tolerance.
5. A system, as in claim 1, where the direction is any one of increasing time and decreasing time.
6. A system, as in claim 1, where the intensity difference is determined by any one of the following: a pixel to pixel comparison and a histogram differencing between frames.
7. A system, as in claim 1, where the selection process further stores the selected frames in an order.
8. A system, as in claim 7, where the order is the order of selection as the frame is traversed in the time direction.
9. A system, as in claim 7, where the order is an interleaved order, the interleaving order adjacently storing one or more of the frames that are not adjacent in the order of selection as the frame is traversed in the time direction.
10. A system, as in claim 9, where the interleaving process groups frames of the subset of frames into one or more groups so each of the members of the group differ in intensity from an adjacent member of the group by a multiple of the intensity threshold within an intensity tolerance.
11. A system, as in claim 7, in which the stored frames from all the collections are transmitted in the order.
12. A system, as in claim 7, in which the stored frames from all the collections are transmitted in the transmitted interleaved order.
13. A system, as in claim 12, in which the transmitted interleaved order is transmitted at least one frame from each shot in the collection before transmitting a next frame from any shot in the collection.
14. A system, as in claim 12, in which the transmitted interleaved order is transmitted at least one frame from each collection before transmitting a next frame from any other collection.
15. A system, as in claim 14, where the transmitted interleaved order transmits at least one frame from each shot in the collection before transmitting a next frame from any shot in the collection.
16. A system, as in claim 1, having a receiver with a display, the display having one or more icons and the the selected frames of each collection are displayed in one of the icons simultaneously with the selected frames of one or more of the other collections.
17. A method comprising the steps of:
a. traversing a plurality of frames of one or more shots in one or more collections of shots in a time direction;
b. choosing one or more of the frames as a chosen frame;
c. determining an intensity difference between the intensity of the chosen frame and a selected frame, the selected frame being the last frame selected during the traversing;
d. if the intensity difference is greater than an intensity threshold, selecting the chosen frame as a member of a set of selected frames and replacing the selected frame with the chosen frame;
e. repeating steps b-d for all of the frames in the collections; and
f. further selecting a subset of frames from the set of selected frames where the frames in the subset of frames satisfy a constraint.
18. A method, as in claim 17, further comprising the step of:
g. storing the subset of frames in an interleaved order, where the order is an interleaved order, the interleaving order adjacently storing one or more of the frames that are not adjacent in the order of selection as the frame is traversed in the time direction.
19. A method, as in claim 18, further comprising the step of:
h. displaying one or more icons, the selected frames of each collection being displayed in one of the icons simultaneously with the selected frames of one or more of the other collections.
20. A computer system comprising:
a memory storage means for containing one or more multimedia collections, each of the collections having one or more multimedia shots, each of the shots having one or more frames;
a selection process for selecting one or more of the frames as selected frames and deselecting one or more of the frames as deselected frames by traversing the frames of each of one or more of the shots in a time direction, an intensity difference being the difference in intensity between one of the deselected frames and a recent selected frame that is one of the selected frames that is last selected in the time direction, the intensity difference of the deselected frames being less than an intensity threshold; and
a second selection process that selects a second subset of frames from the subset to satisfy a resource constraint.
This invention relates to the field of video browsing. More specifically, the invention relates to a system and method for selecting and browsing video information with a display for viewing multiple dynamic segments of video information simultaneously.
The ability to browse through a large amount of video material to find relevant clips of interest is extremely important in many video applications. In interactive TV and pay-per-view systems, customers like to see sections of programs before renting. In digital video library, it is important to provide functionality for users to quickly browse through results returned from queries and to navigate through large collections of materials. The sequential nature of video does not lend itself to easy searching and non-sequential random access operations, both of which are crucial to efficient and effective use of video material. In addition, while an entire video sequence can be transferred over a network to a client's computer for viewing, the inherently large datasize associated with video requires that a lot of bandwidth of the network and time be used for the transfer.
Video browsing is thus a method of displaying and presenting video in a simple and intuitive manner so that a user can easily go through large collection of video, as he would flip through books.
Two terms are defined here: a video shot and a video collection, which will be frequently used in this description:
A shot is a single sequence of video images, like a motion picture or a television program, recorded by one video capture medium without interruption. It is the most fundamental unit of video production.
A collection is a group of similar video shots, where similarity is defined in terms of visual characteristics. For example, in a news broadcast, a collection can be all the shots of a particular news anchor person.
Prior art displaying of video browsing include:
1. That of transferring the entire video, i.e., a video program, from a server to a client computer or loading the entire video from a local storage for sequential display on the computer display. The sequential display means one gets to see the video one frame after the other in specified sequence. Some display programs also provide VCR functions like fast-forward and fast-rewind.
2. That of using keyframes. There are two ways of doing this:
2A. Dividing the video into equal length segments, and for each segment, choosing one frame, say the first, for display. If there are N segments, then there are N keyframes being displayed. Examples of this are disclosed in Mills et al. (M. Mills and J. Cohen and Y. Y. Wong, "A magnifier tool for video data," in Proceedings of ACM Computer Human Interface (CHI), pp.93-98, May 1992).
2B. Dividing the video into shots. For each shot, choosing one or more keyframes, for display. Example work is that of Zhang at el. (H. J. Zhang and C. Y. Low and S. W. Smoliar, "Video Parsing and Browsing using Compressed Data", Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp. 89-111, March 1995). Different numbers of keyframes are selected for each shot based on the activities in the shot. Many keyframes will be selected for shots with significant temporal activities, and few for shots with static contents.
3. That of using graph-based presentation, as disclosed in the work of Yeung et al., M. M. Yeung, B. L. Yeo, W. Wolf, and B. Liu, "Video browsing using clustering and scene transitions on compressed sequences," in Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995, vol. SPIE 2417, pp. 399-413, Feb. 1995). In this presentation, an image icon represents a collection of similar video shots and a directed edge represents the flow of temporal information.
These references are incorporated by reference in their entirety.
The prior art discussed above relates only to the display and presentation of video. No consideration is given to the transmission aspect of sending the information over a network environment. Thus, no consideration to the bandwidth requirement versus the amount of information sent per unit time is made.
Some prior art requires that an entire multimedia shot be downloaded to a client. This takes a long time and requires a user to view the data sequentially.
Other prior art, sends one or more static images to a client, but the client does not see any dynamic content of the shot. Each of the images fail to convey the dynamic information of the video content. For example, sending the first frame of a shot of a touchdown sequence does not present the excitement conveyed by the dynamics of this shot.
An object of this invention is an improved system and method for providing a dynamic summary of video information to a user.
An object of this invention is an improved system and method for providing a dynamic summary of video information to a user over a network.
An object of this invention is an improved system and method for selecting a small subset of frames from video shots and video collections.
An object of this invention is an improved system and method for providing a dynamic summary of video information by simultaneously displaying a multiple collection of the information to a user.
An object of this invention is an improved system and method for providing a dynamic summary of video information to a user over a network to reduce bandwidth used by the network while increasing the amount of information presented to the user.
The invention provides an improved system and method for selecting and browsing video information. Because of the inherent large data size associated with video data, it is impractical to send every single frame of a shot/collection over a network for browsing. Even sending one or more static images has its limitation in that the dynamic of video cannot be conveyed through static images. In a preferred embodiment of this invention, selection of frames for shots and collections is performed to minimize the amount of information sent over a network. A subset of frames is selected using a threshold criteria (e.g. an intensity difference between compared frames) so that the frames in this subset capture the contents and dynamics of the shots and collections because each adjacent pair of frames in the subset have approximately the same difference in contents/dynamics/motion (as measured in intensity) as any other adjacent pair of frames. The total number of frames in the subset can also be further constrained.
In another embodiment of this invention, the frames in the subset can also be interleaved such that frames that are further apart in time are transmitted first, thereby allowing a user at a client to see the overall dynamic of video shots and collections before seeing the more detailed dynamic of video shots.
In yet another embodiment of this invention, a dynamic summary of video information is provided at a computer display through a simultaneously display of multiple collections of video frames selected by method in this invention. The selection and interleaving of frames in shots and collections, and the display of these frames through simultaneous display permit a dynamic summary of video information to be presented to a user over a network. The bandwidth used by the network is reduced for the amount of information presented to the user.
The foregoing and other objects, aspects and advantages will be better understood from the following detailed description of preferred embodiments of the invention with reference to the following drawings:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram example of a stand alone computer system or a client/server computer system that embodies the present invention.
FIG. 2 (a) is a block diagram of one preferred display showing two or more icons dynamically playing the content of several multimedia collections, each collection consisting of several multimedia shots.
FIG. 2 (b) and 2 (c) show alternative embodiments of displaying icons.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a collection with two or more shots, each shot having one or more selected frames.
FIG. 4 (a) is a flow chart of a selection process of frames executing at a workstation or on a network server.
FIG. 4 (b) is a flow chart of a further selection process of frames.
FIG. 4 (c) shows an analogy of the further selection process in one dimension.
FIG. 4 (d) shows a result from a further selection process.
FIG. 4 (e) shows a result from an interleaving of selected frames.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a memory structure of one preferred embodiment of a plurality of shots with selected subsets of frames.
FIG. 6 (a) is a block diagram of one preferred network packet that is transmitted over the network by the server.
FIG. 6 (b) shows a preferred order of transmitting frames in a collection.
FIG. 7 is a flow chart of a browser process executing on a workstation or a client on a network.
Referring first to FIG. 1, a block diagram is shown as a non limiting example of a computer system 100, e.g., a RISC System/6000 or an IBM ThinkPad Model 775CX. (RISC System/6000 and ThinkPad are trademarks of the IBM Corporation.) The computer system 100 can be a stand alone computer 170 or a client 170 connected to one or more servers 190 over a network 180. It is readily understood that those skilled in the computer arts will be familiar with many equivalent computer systems 100. Components in the computer system 100 are connected by and communicate over a system bus 112. A central Processing Unit (CPU) 110, Read Only Memory (ROM) 116, and Random Access Memory (RAM) 114, typically are connected to the system bus 112. The preferred embodiment includes one or more application programs 102. Examples of application programs 102 are processes 400 and 406, described below. Additional memory, e.g., diskettes 119, disks 120, and CDROM 121, can be connected to the system bus 112 by appropriate memory adaptors 118. Input/output adaptors (122, 136) connect the system bus 112 to devices that interact with a user. For example, a keyboard 124 and/or mouse 126 input are connected to the system bus 112 through an appropriate user input adapter 122, just as a display (e.g. a Graphical User Interface, GUI) 138 and/or printer 139 are connected to the system bus 112 through an appropriate User Output Adapter 136. For example, a User Output Adapter 136 used to control a GUI would be an IBM RISC System/6000 Color Graphics Display Adaptor 136. Multimedia functions optionally can be added to the system 100 by using an appropriate Multimedia Adapter 134 like the ActionMedia II Display Adapter 134 (described in the IBM ActionMedia II Technical Reference.) Adapters 134 like this are used to input and output audio signals through audio input devices (e.g. a microphone ) 132 and audio output devices (e.g. one or more loud speakers) 128. Video input (e.g. through a camera) 130 and video output 138 is also enabled by adaptors like these. Speech recognition is accomplished by using an IBM VoiceType Dictation Adapter 134. User interfaces (122, 136) for other functions, e.g., virtual reality systems, can be connected to the system bus 112. The system 100 can be connected to local or wide area networks 180 (e.g., the Internet) through an appropriate network interface 175. For an example of communications over a network, see U.S. Pat. No. 5,371,852 to Attanasio et al., issued on Dec. 6, 1994 which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.
FIG. 2 (a) depicts a display showing two or more icons, each dynamically playing the content of several multimedia collections (e.g. C1, C2, C3, and C4) in two different timesteps, δ and δ+1. In FIG. 2(a), icons (201-204 and 201A-204A) are shown at two points in time (time steps) for each of the collections (C1, C2, C3, and C4). For example, at time step δ, icons 201, 202, 203 and 204 display frames C11, C21, C31 and C41 for collections C1, C2, C3, and C4, respectively. At the next time step δ+1, the same icons then display frame C12, C22, C32 and C42 for collections C1, C2, C3, and C4, respectively. In FIG. 2(a), each of the frames of a collection C1 is denoted by C11, C12, C13 (not shown), . . .
FIG. 2 (b) shows a non limiting example of the results of using the invention to dynamically display the content of shots of a 30-second IBM commercial "France". In this example, the content of the first three shots are shown. Shot 1 is represented by frames 215, 225, and 235; shot 2 is represented by frames 216, 226 and 236; shot 3 is represented by frames 217, 227 and 237. At each time step, one frame is used to represent its respective shot. In this example, at the first time step δ, 205 depicts 215, 216 and 217 as representation of one frame of each of the respective three shots (shots 1, 2, and 3) simultaneously being displayed at a first time; at the second time step δ+1, 206 depicts 225, 226 and 227 as representation of one frame of each of the respective three shots simultaneously being displayed at a second time; at the third time step δ+2, 207 depicts 235, 236 and 237 as representation of one frame of each of the respective three shots simultaneously being displayed at a third time. Each of the frames representing each shot differ from the previous frame of their respective shot by some threshold (i.e., a threshold based on intensity as defined below, in FIG. 4 (a)).
In an alternative embodiment, the δ's or time steps for each of the shots (e.g. shots 1, 2, and 3) may not be equivalent. For example, shot 1 may update frame 215 to frame 225 in a one second time step, while shot 2 may update frame 216 to frame 226 in a 1.5 second time step.
Note that the frames (e.g. 215, 225, and 235) of a shot (e.g., shot 1) are a selected "subset" of frames of the entire shot. The selection criteria is that all of the frames in the subset vary in intensity from an adjacent frame (i.e., adjacent in time) by approximately the same intensity difference, i.e. the threshold ε defined below.
In this example, by seeing only the frames in 205, 206 and 207, (i.e. the subset of frames at each given time step) at the their respective time steps (δ, δ+1 and δ+2), the user not only can see at a glance the essence of the 30-second commercial, but also can get a feel of the dynamics of each shot. The subset of frames selected for each shot is selected by a selection process described in FIG. 4 (a), below. Because the frames of the subsets are are different from each other by a certain threshold, the dynamics of the program are preserved while showing to the user a smaller number of frames (subset) of the shot.
Because the selection process discards much of the information in the program, there is a substantial reduction in bandwidth consumption/storage as compared to transmitting/storing every single frame of the shot/collection. Because the selection process 400 only retains the frames/shots that allow the user to get a quick overall glance of the video content and the dynamics of its content, the invention can be used to save transmission bandwidth and time, memory storage, and user viewing time.
In various preferred embodiments, the amount of information, i.e., frames and/or shots that are selected can be controlled in one or more modes. For instance, the amount of information that is selected can be controlled by the user or limited by bandwidth availability and/or other system resources (memory, display speed, etc.). (In this descriptions these limitations of the system will also be called resource limitations.) Where there are these resource limitations, the number of frames in the subset can be further reduced by selecting a second subset from the subset. See below.
In an alternative embodiment, the subsets, elements of the subset, or elements of two or more subsets, can be transmitted one at a time or upon user request. For example, in an initial transmission, only those frames making up 205 are transmitted (e.g. elements/frames of two or more subsets). As more bandwidth becomes available or when there is a lack of (or a positive) user's response, 206 and/or 207 can be further transmitted to the client's computer. As a consequence, a user gets to see those frames making 205 initially, thus getting a quick overview of the content, and then later also gets to see the frames of 206 and/or 207, thus getting a sense of the dynamic of the content. All this happens without the need for transmitting every single frame, thereby saving considerably on bandwidth consumption. Alternatively, only the subset of shot 1 (then later subsequent shots) would be sent using the time steps.
FIG. 2(c) shows the results of another non-limiting example of the results of using the invention to dynamically display multimedia content of a video. Here, the presentation uses a Scene Transition Graph (M. M. Yeung, B. L. Yeo, W. Wolf, and B. Liu, "Video browsing using clustering and scene transitions on compressed sequences," in Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995, vol. SPIE 2417, pp. 399-413, Feb. 1995 (incorporated above).
In FIG. 2(c), there are 4 nodes (V1-V4) per graph (208,209). Graph 208 depicts 4 image icons, each icon selected from and representing a collection, which in this case is a cluster of similar shots. Node 210 (V4) in 208 is a cluster of similar shots of a character in this commercial. Animation at each of the nodes can be added easily by using this invention because the invention selects a small subset of frames that can be played at each of the nodes.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of collection k with N shots, typically 301. Each shot has one or more frames (typically 302-306, 316, 326), where frames 302, 306, 316, and 326 are selected frames (and 303-306 are unselected frames). The selected frames (e.g., 302) are selected by the selection process 400. The content of 301 (shot 1) is shown in detail--302 is the first frame of shot 1; 303 is the second frame of shot 1, and so on. As shown in FIG. 3, shot 1 has 4 selected frames, each of which is marked by `X`. The selected frames for this shot are denoted by Ck,1,1, Ck,1,2, Ck,1,3 and Ck,1,4. In a similar manner, the selected frame of shot 1 is denoted by Ck,1,1, Ck,1,2, . . . The general notation Ca,b,b is as follows: a is the collection number, b is the shot number within this collection, and c is the selected frame number within this shot.
FIG. 4 (a) is a flow chart of one preferred selection process 400 that selects frames for each shot in a collection k. The selection begins with choosing 401 a first shot (e.g. 301) and then choosing 402 a first frame (e.g. 302) of the first shot 301 and comparing subsequent frames of the first shot to the first frame, where the sequence is taken continuously (either increasing or decreasing in time.) That is, the subsequent frames of the shot that are compared to the first frame arc taken sequential in increasing (decreasing) order with respect to time. If one of the subsequent frames is different from the first frame by more than a threshold, that frame is selected, becomes the first frame 403 and the process 400 is repeated for all of the frames and shots (404 and 405). This threshold is measured as an intensity difference between the compared shots (below.) As stated, the frames can alternatively be traversed in decreasing time order, instead of increasing time order, for the selection (of the subset of frames of the shot).
The difference (threshold) between two frames, d(fi f2), is based on intensity or other properties or intensity related measurements. Examples include histogram and pixel differences, described in Yeo and Liu (B. L. Yeo and B. Liu, "Rapid Scene Analysis from Compressed Video", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 533-544, December 1995.) This reference is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
In an alternative embodiment, computation time can be saved by comparing the frames with spatially reduced resolution. For example, frames having a spatial resolution of 352 by 240 pixels can be compared after their resolution has been reduced to 44 by 30 pixels. This technique of generating reduced resolution images from compressed video is described in Yeo and Liu (B. L. Yeo and B. Liu, "On the extraction of DC sequences from MPEG compressed video", International Conference on Image Processing, Vol. II, pp. 260-263, 1995.) This reference is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The output from 405 for the first shot is a list of selected frames, named Ck,1,j, j=1, 2, . . . . This set, Ck,1,j, j=1, 2, . . . , is the subset of the shot. In general, the output of the process in selecting the frames for the i th shot is Ck,i,j,j, j=1, 2, . . . These Ck,f,j are exactly those marked with `X` in FIG. 3, and they are the frames that represent the shot i and collection k.
As stated above, the number of frames in the subset might need to be further reduced because of system resource limitations. In these cases, the subset of frames Ck,i,j is determined, as before, by the threshold ε. Afterwards, a further selection step (406) is taken in which the number of selected frames (the second subset) is reduced. In this case, the user is presented with less information (few frames in the second subset) but is using fewer system resources, e.g. bandwidth. The selection of this second subset is described further in the description of FIG. 4(b).
The selected frames can then be optionally interleaved (407), stored (408), and/or transmitted (409). At a client computer, the selected frames are received (410) and dynamically displayed (411), as shown in FIG. 2 (a), 2 (b) and 2 (c). The communication (409, 410) and some display (411) methods of these frames is well known.
Denoting the frames selected by 401 through 405 as Ck,i,1, Ck,i,2, . . . , Ck,i,n (i.e., n frames are selected for shot i in collection k) we can further select a subset, a second subset, of m, m<n, frames from this set. In this case, select m frames are selected from n frames such that adjacent selected frames in time are approximately separated by the same threshold.
In the selection process 403, a pair of two adjacent selected frames Ck,i,j and Ck,i,j+1 have a difference of greater than ε. Because the selection is performed within a shot, the difference between every adjacent pair of selected frames in the shot is roughly the same. The selection of m frames from n such frames can then be based on uniformly selecting (see below) these n frames, without needing to perform another difference operations. This selection process is useful when there is constraints in resources such as the number of frames to be stored or transmitted for each shot. The algorithm is shown in FIG. 4 (b). The input is a list of n frames Ck,i,1, Ck,i,2, . . . , Ck,i,n. Step 421 initializes the algorithm to further select a second subset of m frames from this n frames, where m<n. The variable IntCurr will denote the frame to select. At each step of the iteration (422), Ck,i,Incurr is selected and IntCurr is appropriately incremented. The increment by IntCurr at each step of the iteration further selects frames from Ck,i,1, Ck,i,2, . . . , Ck,i,n such that adjacent frames in the further selected second set differ from each other by a multiple of the intensity threshold within an intensity tolerance. There is thus a tradeoff between the difference in content between adjacent frames and the resources in terms of storage or bandwidth needed to store or transmit these frames.
An analogy of the further selection process in a one-dimensional example is shown in FIG. 4 (c). Here, the one-dimensional graph is analogous to a sequence of video shots. The horizontal axis denotes time and the vertical axis denotes the intensity. The points marked `X` are selected, analogous to those frames selected by the proposed selected process. The vertical distances between adjacent `X`s are approximately the same, i.e., ε, which is the intensity threshold used in 400. The further selection step then further selects m points from the set of n points such that the vertical distances between adjacent further-selected points are approximately equal. This is precisely what 406 achieves. In this figure, 3 points (431, 432 and 433) are further selected and they are further marked with `o`. The separations between adjacent (further) selected points are now approximately constant. We can also view the separation between 431 and 432 as approximately 3 δ and the separation between 432 and 433 as approximately 4 ε. Thus, each frame selected by the further selection process differs from an adjacent member of the subset resulting from the further selection process by a multiple of the intensity threshold within an intensity tolerance.
FIG. 4 (d) shows an example of the results of the further selection process, of step in FIG. 4 (b). In this example, 8 frames are selected after the selection process, i.e. by the selection process 401-405. Suppose due to storage or bandwidth constraint, it is desired to further select only 3 frames on this set. The algorithm selects frame 1, 4 and 8. This process of further selection is a key component of this invention and is very useful for selecting a smaller subset of fixed number of frames for storage and transmission to meet resource constraints such as bandwidth, storage or delay. Furthermore, the further selection process 406 can be used for interleaving, to be discussed below, to order selected frames for transmission process.
An alternative to 406 is to select frames from the selected set of frames such that the further selected frames are uniformly spaced apart. For example, in FIG. 4 (d), we could select instead of 1, 4 and 8, frames 1, 4, and 7. The method is simpler than 406 but does not guarantee that the first and last frames are always selected, which is the case with the method of 406.
We shall use Ck,i,j for the rest of the description to denote the set of selected frames for collection k, shot i. They could be a result of the selection steps 401-405 or from the further selection 406.
After the selection process through all the collections, the selected frames Ck,i,j are stored for later use (405, see FIG. 5). There are several ways that the selected frames are stored. For example, the frames can be stored in the order in which they are selected. The frames can be further interleaved (407) before storage.
Interleaving is advantageous in transmission purposes (409), in which successively more frames are sent to convey the sense of dynamics of the content.
Interleaving can be achieved using a succession of the further selection algorithm in FIG. 4 (b). At the shot level, interleaving can be performed such that the frames are re-ordered to ensure maximal difference between the adjacent reordered frames. FIG. 4 (e) shows the result of an interleaving process that reorders 8 selected frames. Thus, after the interleaving process, Ck,j,1 will be stored, then Ck,i,4, then Ck,i,8, then Ck,i,2 and so on. Ck,i,1 will be adjacently stored to Ck,i,4 even though they are not adjacent before the interleaving. Such interleaving process can also be seen as a grouping of frames such that frames within each group differ in intensity from an adjacent member of the group by approximately the same amount (preferrable a multiple of the threshold). In this figure, there are three groups: the first group consists of Ck,i,1, Ck,i,4 and Ck,i,8 ; the second group consists of Ck,i,2, Ck,i,5 and Ck,i,7 ; the third group consists of Ck,i,3 and Ck,i,6. (Note that the numbers in the boxes in FIG. 4 (e) are the order of the interleaving selection of frames.) In the first group, Ck,i,1 differs from Ck,i,4 by about 3 ε and Ck,i,4 differs Ck,i,8 by about 4 ε. In the second group, Ck,i,2 differs Ck,i,5 by about 3 ε and Ck,i,5 differs Ck,i,7 by about 2 ε. In a preferred embodiment, a succession of the further selection process (406) is applied with m=3. Process 406 selects both the first and the last frame. Further, using m=3 means that at each iteration, the median frame is also selected from the remaining set.
At the client computer which receives the frames over a network (process 410), multiple icons are displayed to animate the content of each collection (process 411, see FIG. 7). The animation conveys a sense of the dynamic of each video collection.
After the selection of frames from shots in collections, the frames can be stored (408) separately for more efficient access. FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a memory/disk structure of one preferred embodiment of a plurality of collection of shots with selected subsets of frames. The figure depicts collection k with N shots. Shot 1 (501) consists of L selected frames, numbered Ck,1,1 through Ck,1,L . Shot N (502) consists of M selected frames, numbered Ck,N,1 through Ck,N,M.
During transmission, it is desirable that to interleave the frames from collection. FIG. 6 (a) shows one preferred network packet that is transmitted over the network by the server in a transmitted interleaved order. Here, there are J collections. 601 consists of J frames, each one from a different shot in a different collection. In 601, for the first collection, the first frame from the first shot is used; similarly, for the second and subsequent collection, the first frames from the first shots are used. Thus, the first J frames sent are C1,1,1, C2,1,1, . . . , CJ,1,1. The next J frames form 602. In 602, the first frame from the second shot of the first collection is sent; similarly, for the remaining collections, the first frame from the second shot of each collection is sent. The process is iterated for each subsequent set of J frames transmitted. After iterating through all the shots in each collections, the first shot is re-visited and the second selected frame is then transmitted. This is the case in 603, where for each collection, the second selected frame of the first shot (i.e., Ck,1,2) is transmitted. The general principle to select the frame is thus as follows: for each collection, select the next shot, and for each shot, select the next frame for transmission. The selected frames for each collections for each timestep are then transmitted together.
FIG. 6 (b) shows a preferred way to select the next frame from a collection for transmission. The selected frames for each shot in a collection is laid out in row order. A table is then formed from all the rows. The selection process then traverses the table in column order, as shown. Thus, at the first pass, the first frame selected for collection k is the first frame of the first shot, i.e., Ck,1,1 ; the second frame is the first frame of the second shot, i.e., Ck,2,1, and so on. After all the first frames of the shots are transmitted, the second frame of the first shot, i.e., Ck,1,2, is sent, followed by the second frame of the second shot and so on. This process transmits frames in the order shown in FIG. 6 (a). The pseudo-code for transmitting frames in collection k is as follows: ##EQU1##
At the receiving end, the interleaved collection of frames will be mapped to the respective image icon on the display. FIG. 7 depicts a typical scenario. The computer 702 reads in an interleaved sequence of frames Ci,j,k 703. Frame Ci,j,k will then be displayed as icon i on display 701. The pseudo-code for mapping received sequences to icons is as follows: ##EQU2##
Alternatively, the update for the i icons can be performed simultaneously, i.e., ##EQU3##
The intervals between successive update between two different images for the same icons, will depend on the bandwidth availability or some preset threshold. The dynamic display of an icon through the alternations between frames of each shot in a collection then provides a visual cues of the dynamics present in the aggregate of shots in that collection.
Given this disclosure alternative equivalent embodiments will become apparent to those skilled in the art. These embodiments are also within the contemplation of the inventors.
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HILLSVILLE –– For a while it looked as if Carroll County would need little more than 45 minutes to take care of Patrick County in the Region IV quarterfinals Tuesday. And for a while it looked like the match would go a full five games.
The Cavaliers were happy with the compromise.
Carroll County dominated the first two games before Patrick County rallied to make a match of it, with the Cavaliers eventually pulling off a 25-9, 25-19, 21-25, 25-22 victory.
Carroll coach Cindy Edwards was happy to see it end in the fourth game.
WYTHEVILLE –– If you're going to go down, you may as well go down swinging.
Galax played one of its most aggressive, most spirited matches of the year Wednesday but it wasn't quite enough to overcome George Wythe as the Maroon Tide fell 25-16, 25-22, 25-22 in the Region C quarterfinals at George Wythe High School.
Galax, the runner-up in the Mountain Empire District, ends its season at 13-11 while George Wythe advances to tomorrow's semifinals at Northwood with an overall mark of 15-6.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are expected to do great things, maybe even make history. Almost all of them do so with their intellect. DeRon Brown has already rewritten the history of MIT football.
Brown, a junior from Galax and a 2005 graduate of Grayson County High School, carried 20 times for 165 yards and a touchdown in last Saturday's 27-14 loss to Plymouth State, maintaining his status as the No. 1 Division III ballcarrier in the nation while breaking MIT's career rushing record.
To put that in perspective:
BRISTOL –– Galax's boys cross country team endured extremely windy conditions Wednesday and breezed into the state meet for the 16th time in the program's 20-year history, earning a runner-up finish at the Region C championships at Sugar Hollow Park.
HILLSVILLE –– What a nice night for a drive.
Carroll County turned a possible game-changing special teams play by Graham into a 99-yard scoring march early in the third quarter and rolled on to a 47-6 shelling of the G-Men in the Southwest District finale for both teams Friday at Tommy Thompson Field.
The win was Carroll's first since 2004 against the G-Men and only the second in the 15-game history of the series. Carroll County ends its season at 5-5, 3-3 in the district, while Graham awaits a possible playoff berth after finishing at 4-6, 3-3.
INDEPENDENCE -- For the second time this season, Grayson County has played a Kentucky football team. And for the second time the outcome has been a disaster for the Blue Devils.
Harlan County rolled into Bill Strong Field Friday night and when the smoke cleared, the Black Bears had beaten Grayson County 69-20. Harlan County (6-3) scored in every quarter and made the Blue Devils (0-9) pay for every mistake on the scoreboard.
HILLSVILLE –– Carroll County survived one of its worst games of the year and was still able to come away with a four-game win, knocking off Marion 25-20, 17-25, 25-13, 25-19 in the Southwest District tournament volleyball semifinals Thursday.
The Cavaliers remained undefeated after 21 matches with the win and advanced to the tournament finals on Saturday, where they faced Abingdon, a four-game winner over Tazewell in the night's first semifinal.
NARROWS – Galax lost for the seventh time in its past eight games, falling to Narrows 27-8 Friday night in a Mountain Empire District game at Ragsdale Field.
The Tide (2-7 overall, 1-3 district) lost the battle up front as Narrows' offense line pushed around Galax's defenders all night.
The predicted high-scoring affair between Galax and Bland County never materialized Friday night, as a steady rain and field conditions slowed the teams to a scoreless first half before the Bears pulled away to win 19-8 on two late touchdowns.
The Maroon Tide held an 8-6 lead into the fourth quarter, until Cory Andrews put Mountain Empire District co-leader Bland on top for good with a 3-yard touchdown run with 8:02 remaining.
WYTHEVILLE –– After a combined 40-plus matches played by Galax and Fort Chiswell, the entire previous three months all came down to one little game to 15.
In a one-match playoff to decide the Mountain Empire District regular season championship, Fort Chiswell rallied from a 6-2 deficit in the fifth game and scored the final eight points to defeat Galax 17-25, 26-24, 19-25, 25-17, 15-9 at George Wythe High School.
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November (band)
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|Stockholm, Sweden
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30 Nov 1993
27 Jan 2007
|Sonet Records
Mellotronen Records
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|Saga, Energy, The Imps, Jajja Band
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|Björn Inge
Christer Stålbrandt
Richard Rolf
November is a Swedish rock band formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 1969 by Christer Stålbrandt, Richard Rolf and Björn Inge. The band has been called Sweden's first Hard rock/heavy metal band in the Swedish documentary Så jävla metal from 2011.
Their music was partly inspired by American acid rock, but heavy and blues based like a mixture of Black Sabbath, Cream and Led Zeppelin. November started in 1968 at Tegelhögen, a youth club in Vällingby (a Stockholm suburb). At this club Christer Stålbrandt and Björn Inge played together with two friends as The Imps. After a few months Stålbrandt left the group to form a new group called Train. Björn Inge joined shortly after. Train also included Snowy White on guitar. In the early autumn of 1969 Snowy decided to return to his native homeland, England, and Richard Rolf joined as their new guitarist.
On November 1st, 1969 they supported Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac at the Que-Club in Gothenburg, and therefore they decided to call themselves November.
November was one of the first Swedish rock bands with Swedish lyrics. Most of the lyrics were written by Stålbrandt, influenced by the 60's flower power movement. Despite the Swedish lyrics, November was quite popular in England. While touring in England the lyrics was often translated to English, the crowd, however, insisted on the band performing with Swedish lyrics.
November recorded three albums which all reached high places on the Swedish charts. After their last concert at club Domino on New Year's Eve 1972 the band split up and had up until 2007, only performed once, namely during the release party for the CD November-Live 1993 (recorded on tour in 1971) on 30 Nov 1993.
Christer Stålbrandt moved on starting the group Saga, Björn Inge joined jazz rockers Energy, and Richard Rolf was one of the forming members of Bash and later on joined Nature.
On the 27th of January 2007 they performed at the Mellotronen 20th anniversary party. More gigs have been played.
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- En ny tid är här... LP Sonet Records (1970)
- 2:a November LP Sonet Records (1971)
- 6:e November LP Sonet Records (1972)
- Live CD/LP Sonet Records / Mellotronen Records (1993)
- "Mount Everest" / "Cinderella" 7" Sonet Records 1970 )
- "Men mitt hjärta ska vara gjort av sten" / "Môuchkta (Drömmen om Malin)" 7" Sonet Records 1971)
- "Mount Everest" / "Nobody's Hand to Hold" 7" Sonet Records 1971)
- "Tillbaks till Stockholm" / "Sista resan" 7" Sonet Records 1971)
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- "Ta ett steg in i sagans land" on The Essence of Swedish Progressive Music 1967-1979 - Pregnant Rainbows for Colourblind Dreamers Premium Records 2007)
Band members[edit]
- Björn Inge - (drums, vocals)
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OUR VIEW: Atheist preachers, prophets and killers (vote in poll)
By WAYNE LAUGESEN - COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE
Updated: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:38:56 UTC
Thanks to Miranda for the link
Miranda sent this to me a few days ago but since I live in Colorado Springs I often feel a bit too close to the regular lunacy here to take an objective view as to whether to post or not. Links to Jerry Coyne's and PZ's posts about the article are below. /Mike
It's much like any old religion
Online preview of Sunday's lead editorial
Another atheist extremist went on a rampage last week, taking hostages at the Discovery Channel building and demanding the network do more to proselytize evolution and fear about environmental Armageddon. Before he harmed anyone, police shot the terrorist dead.
The violence and the response of atheist evangelists, such as American shock-scientist PZ Myers, illustrate how organized atheism increasingly resembles religion.
Writing for the Discovery Institute, David Klinghoffer pointed out that Darwinian theory has a strange effect on people who are "crazy, wicked, or both." He's correct, but he might as well have said "belief" or "philosophy" has a strange effect on people who are crazy, wicked or both.
Klinghoffer explained that Columbine High School shooter Eric Harris, Jokela High School shooter Pekka Eric Auvinen and Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter James von Brunn espoused an evangelical loyalty to Darwin and atheism.
Those who commit atrocities to fight for the cause of Darwin are similar to those who commit atrocities for the sake of Jesus or Muhammed. They are con men, striking out in hatred and justifying their acts with figures greater than self.
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Jerry Coyne in Why Evolution Is True
Colorado paper: P. Z. = Bin Laden
PeeZee must be busy, because he hasn't yet responded to something that hits close to home: an editorial in the Colorado Springs Gazette accusing him, and other atheist/Darwinists, of fomenting violence and murder (think Columbine shootings and Discovery Channel standoff):
Those who commit atrocities to fight for the cause of Darwin are similar to those who commit atrocities for the sake of Jesus or Muhammed. They are con men, striking out in hatred and justifying their acts with figures greater than self. . .
Just as James Dobson and other evangelists cultivate audiences in order to spread their beliefs, so do atheist evangelizers. The bigs are Britons Christopher Hitchens, who is battling cancer, and Richard Dawkins, who turns 70 in March. Myers, who grabbed attention by vandalizing sacred religious property, is a young and energetic American evangelist on track to become the James Dobson of atheism. . .
The more atheists push their beliefs — through terror or preaching — the more they appear as another evangelical movement with faith in a philosophy that can never be proved or disproved. Atheists, welcome to the club. All you're lacking are orphanages, AIDS hospices, missionaries, and thousands of charitable foundations. Get on it.
The author of this screed is Wayne Laugesen, a notorious conservative/libertarian. I won't do the heavy lifting on this one—that rightfully belongs to its target. But here's the theme song for the children's prayer/brainwashing videos that Laugesen and his wife co-produce, "Holy Baby!":
If you want to see a nauseating 24-minute "Holy Baby!" video, go here.
Oh, and there's a poll about whether atheists are as charitable as believers. Curiously, it seems to have already been Pharyngulated.
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Once upon a time, there was the mainframe. All application processing was centralized to this enormous beast, and desktop equipment did nothing but display its output. Then the personal computer arrived, ending the tyranny of the mainframe. Individual users suddenly were empowered to install their own applications. Software development and innovation boomed. The personal computers were networked. Thus, the mainframe was slain.
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One solution is a step forward that feels like turning back the clock. The thin client is the modern equivalent of the text terminal. It provides a low-profile, low-maintenance appliance for the desktop. Application processing is off-loaded to a centralized system called a terminal server. Linux has emerged as the OS of choice on the thin client, even when the terminal server runs MS Windows. But let's not go halfway. Let's explore in detail how to deploy a Linux thin client with a Linux terminal server.
What makes a client thin? Most important, thin clients have minimal local software that can be stored on a Flash memory module that is read-only for the local user. This is usually a standard CompactFlash card or a Disk On Module (DOM), which is Flash memory with an IDE interface. A small portion of Flash is made writable for saving configuration information, but in a properly configured system, the user will not be able to modify this. Once configured, it is very nearly an appliance as far as the user is concerned.
Because most of the processing is performed by the terminal server, a slower CPU can be used; 533MHz is typical. This diminishes the cooling requirements greatly, which means fewer or no fans. The silence is golden.
Because there are no internal drives or expansion cards, motherboard components are reduced, allowing very small form factors. The small form factor, reduced cooling requirements and lack of drives mean a very small enclosure. The model I typically use measures 9.5" tall and 1.75" wide, and has a maximum power consumption of 30W. The smaller power supply also means a smaller UPS. Compare a 700 VA workstation UPS costing $120 US and weighing 17 pounds to a 350 VA thin-client UPS costing $40 US and weighing 11 pounds.
Thin clients have two distinct modes of operation: client and standalone. In standalone mode, the thin client isn't really a client. All necessary applications are loaded in Flash and executed locally, which can drive the purchase cost up by increasing the Flash requirements. The most common application of this is a Web appliance. Any decent thin client will have the ability to boot directly into a Web browser and even prevent the user from exiting the browser or modifying its configuration.
Here is a big caveat to thin clients: vendor dependence. You can't simply download the latest version of Firefox and install it on a thin client as you can with a workstation. The manufacturer must provide a special image for your make and model. This is something that needs to change, but for now, the software that the manufacturer makes available is a crucial factor in selecting a thin client. If you want Firefox on a standalone thin client, the manufacturer has to provide it. If you want Flash and Java to work, the manufacturer must provide the plugins. Don't expect the plugins to be current releases either. The size of some plugins has outpaced even the plummeting cost of memory. In particular, Acrobat and Java have grown so enormous that it is more reasonable to use an older release than pay for the additional Flash and RAM required to run them.
How software is made available depends on the manufacturer. There are basically two methods. One is to provide individual modules. This allows you to pick and choose, but more labor is involved in preparing the clients. The other method is for the manufacturer to provide monolithic images with all the options needed. This can be practical if the manufacturer is flexible about providing custom images.
When using thin clients in client mode, the applications are all normal installations on the terminal server, which is simply a high-performance server with enough horsepower to do the application processing.
In client mode, the thin client has a dual nature. It is a client in respect to the application services provided by the terminal server, but it is also a server in respect to providing those applications with access to local hardware. The local hardware being served up is primarily a keyboard, video and mouse (KVM), but there also can be local audio, USB storage devices and printers.
Thin clients are available with Linux, Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded. Barring some desire to use Internet Explorer in standalone mode, there really isn't any reason to consider anything but Linux for a thin client. Even if the terminal server is MS Windows, the fact that Linux is running on the thin client is completely transparent to the user. CE and XP only add software license costs to each client, and XP doubles the Flash and RAM memory requirements on the client (128MB minimum Flash and RAM for Linux vs. 265 Flash and RAM for XP). Because of this, the most commonly deployed thin-client configuration today is Linux thin clients connecting to MS Windows terminal servers.
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Science BO Advice
Recently got promoted to Captain and with my new ship I have room for a Lt.Com BO and a Commander BO. Currently Im using..
- Tractor Beam I
- Transfer Shield Strength I
- Science Team II
- Tachyon Beam II
- Energy Siphon II
- Viral Matrix III
At T5 I'm Intending to get either
Polarize Hull I or Hazard Emitters I for the ensign post. And Tyken's Rift for the new Lt.Com spot.
Are there any here I should consider dropping and replacing with others?
It'll be best if we knew what your Tactical and Engineering boffs were like so that choices can be made that synergise with those abilities. eg: At the moment we cannot assume that you have any sort of hull/shield healing/buffs on the engineering side. For all we know, you could have chosen EPtW and DEM, which then places the burden on the science powers for shield and hull heals.
It'll also be nice if we knew what you were planning on focusing on. Random missions/stuff where you'll most likely be in a solo situation; PVP; STFs etc...
Ah yes sorry, :)
Tactical BO:
- Torp High Yield I
- Tactical Team II
Engineer BO:
- Emergency Power To Shields I
- Engineering Team I
- Boarding Team I
As for what I intend to do, I like to do abit of everything :) Both PvE and PvP
If you intend to do both PvE and PvP, ideally you'll have multiple boff configurations to swap in to best suit the situation. Under normal mission play, you'll be perfectly fine so long as you have TSS, HE and EPtS. The real fun is in varying your payload for other stuff
Tachyon beam is a little iffy as a general purpose ability unless you're going to be cruising around in full aux and with flow capacitors since decent weapons fire would punch a hole through the shields faster. It is, however, great to drain the shields of a highly resistant target, such as will most likely be the case in PvP. Doffs can also add a turn rate debuff when using Tachyon Beam, which helps give it a little bit of extra utility. Tachyon Beam is a deflector ability, so it shares the system cool down with other abilities like Gravity Well, Tyken's and Energy Siphon, so keep that in mind
As you are using I'm assuming, a sci ship, you may want to consider getting higher ranks of Transfer Shield Strength. It is one of the better +resistance/healing abilities in the science arsenal. Rank 3 is trainable only by getting an commissioned officer with the ability, which normally means digging through the exchange.
Hazard emitters is great. A nice hull heal, +resistance and removes dot effects while it's active like plasma dots and the nasty borg shield neutraliser. It depends on how hard up you are for hull healing in which rank to get. If you grab Aux to SIF in the engineering Lt. slot, you can rely on that for general purpose hull healing and keep HE for special situations.
Science Team is generally used only for the debuff cleaning effect. The shield heal is somewhat mediocre and doesn't give any +resistance which is important as you fight more difficult encounters as it helps increase the effect of subsequent heals and your regen. You may wish to consider moving it down to the ensign slot.
On a similar note, Tactical Team is mainly used for the instant shield redistribution effect, so keeping it in the ensign slot allows you to have a more effective damage ability in the Lt. slot.
Tyken's Rift is an amazing ability and its useful in most situations. An AoE power drain is always welcome. I personally need to see if Gravity Well 3 is worth its place instead of Tyken 3 for the damage it can bring. I have no problems recommending it for the Commander ability spot under most situations.
Gravity Well is another amazing ability. AoE tractor, it can lock down groups of enemies for AoE punishment or simply prevent them from moving and buy some time.
Viral Matrix used to be awesome where it totally prevented the target from taking any action back in the day. I personally don't like random system shutdowns, but I suppose it's handy to have in a PvP situation where you may want to force a target to burn their Sci Team to then follow up with a sub nuc beam to lock them down. I'd much prefer the certainty of energy drains like a Tyken + Target Subsystem combo when it comes to taking a target out of the picture for a while.
You may want to consider abilities like Jam Targeting Sensors. In PvE it allows you to disengage from a target, speed away then regenerate/repair and refresh yourself for a re-engagement and can also help in PvP to force a break from an opponent and also prompt them to try to clear using Sci Team -> Sub Nuc chain.
I personally load one of my boffs with Sci Team I, HE II, TSS III and Tyken III and use that as the standard go-to boff. If I move that boff to the Lt.Commander spot, I still retain my three standard healing/defensive abilities and can slot in another commander boff for a fresh set of abilities as the situation demands it.
Polarize Hull I've found to be situational. If you know you're going to take burst damage, it's great to add a big chunk of resistance. It also prevents tractors from locking onto you. However, it doesn't have much use outside of this, so it depends on how often you'll get into a situation where you'll need it. It shares the same system cool down as Hazard Emitters, so it has the side-effect of locking out a hull healing ability at times where you may need it.
Energy Siphon in theory is better than Tyken's in a one on one situation since the target cannot run from it, and you gain the power. As mentioned before, it shares the system cool down with Tyken and Gravity well among other things, so its your decision if you want to keep it on.
Thanks thats alot of great feedback :)
Another quick question hehe, how would you fit in Viral Matrix, Gravity Well and Tyken's Rift if you was to save the 2nd Lt.Com spot for TSS III?
Would it have to be;
Lt. Tykens Rift I
Lt.Com: Gravity Well I
Comm: Viral Matrix III
Seeing as both Gravity Well and Viral Matrix both begin at Lt.Com. Or would you drop Viral infavour of a stronger Gravity Well/Tyken Rift combo?
Both Tyken and Viral Matrix only really become effective when you bump them up to the higher ranks. Tyken especially since that's an energy drain while VM gains additional duration for the subsystem shut downs. Gravity Well is perfectly fine at rank 1 and increasing ranks helps with its damage and I presume its pull effect/duration.
Really depends on what you use the most and what you prefer to have as the stronger ability. I would say Tyken and Gravity well are the stronger all purpose abilities as they are multi-targeting.
Ok I got to my Recon science vessel and nearly finally settled on most my abilitys.
- Tac Team I
- High Yield I
- Beam overload II
- EPtAux I
- EPtS II
- Tractor Beam I
- Tractor Beam Repulsor I
- Photonic Shockwave I
- Gravity Well I
- Tykens Rift III
Dropped Viral Matrix as I found to never be using it. Would this setup work in PvP? Seems to work well in PvE.
instead of tractor beam or repulsor (your call) I'd make sure to get a Charged Particle Burst in there. It comes in really handy as a One-Two punch to take out small fighters, drones, removing the last shred of shields before you use Photonic Shockwave.
Personally, I recently restocked Feedback too. More hull damage vs things that fly really fast to go along with Tyken's and/or Gravity Well.
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