Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1992-05-22
1994-08-16
Chin, Wellington
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
370 951, 348 7, 455 42, H04N 7173
Patent
active
053393155
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a cable broadcasting system and the transmission center employed therein. In the transmission center, plural images are divided into several groups in the same kinds and each image in one kind is repeated not simultaneously so that they are outputted as independent plural image signals, and the image that the subscribers have requested is selected from those plural image signals which is enciphered, modulated, and multiplexed to be transmitted in optical transmission lines through an available channel to the subscribers, while the transmission channel is validated as well as the enciphered image signal is deciphered at the subscribers' end in order to enable the subscribers to watch the image they have requested.
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Fujito Katsuyuki
Maeda Kazuki
Utsumi Kuniaki
Chin Wellington
Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
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