Cryptography – Key management – Having particular key generator
Patent
1994-03-01
1996-02-13
Cain, David C.
Cryptography
Key management
Having particular key generator
380 17, 380 20, H04N 7167
Patent
active
054917484
ABSTRACT:
A cable television plant scrambling system incorporates video inversion with a pair of mode signals included in the vertical blanking interval of a scrambled television signal for identifying the proper mode for a video inverting
on-inverting amplifier at a subscriber station. An encoded mode control signal in the form of a byte of data is sent periodically with the scrambled television signal for selecting which of the mode signals is operative. In the receiver, the mode signals are applied to the inverting
on-inverting video amplifier and the encoded mode control signal is supplied to a microprocessor which is provided with a decoding algorithm from the cable head-end. The microprocessor decodes the mode control signal and tells the inverting amplifier which mode signal to look to for proper operation. A new decoding algorithm is periodically downloaded to subscriber stations on an out-of-band basis to enable the encoded mode control signal to be changed.
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Auld, Jr. Frederick H.
Long Michael E.
Cain David C.
Zenith Electronics Corporation
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