Smart Codec with Telesurgery Capability

Energid proposes a telesurgery codec designed for streaming video/images, audio and haptic data with low latency and rapid adaptation to network bandwidth changes. The telesurgery system codec must a) reliably operate over a wide range of bandwidths and network configurations, b) rapidly adapt to abrupt changes in available network bandwidth, c) support haptics teleoperation in a bilateral master-slave teleroboic system, and d) minimize the impact of latency. No codec currently exists that meets all of these needs. Energid will evaluate state-of-the-art codec cores for application to telesurgery. We will add several capabilities to meet telesurgery system requirements. These include low-latency haptic feedback packed into the audio data channels; dynamic adjustment of encoder parameters in response to either network bandwidth changes or human-in-the-loop control from the decoder end; a separate video layer for high-priority adaptive area of interest; adaptive prioritization; and dynamic QoS per data stream. As part of the requirement, Energid will design a scalable video codec (SVC) layer that allows temporal, spatial, and quality scaling in response to network bandwidth changes or user-initiated re-prioritization of a video stream.