Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1995-07-07
1996-09-17
Kostak, Victor R.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
348 12, 455 42, H04N 710
Patent
active
055573185
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for providing a receiver a high quality video signal and a plurality of lower quality video signals which can be zapped, i.e., searched through at any given time, via a channel having a limited data capacity. A first set of high quality video signals is present at a transmitter, e.g., fifty programs having a 10 Mbit/s data rate. A second set of video signals which is a subset of the first set of video signals is sent to the receiver in response to a control signal which indicates the programs a viewer has selected to be viewed at high quality, e.g., using the full 10 Mbit/s of data. A third set of video signals is also sent from the transmitter to the receiver. This third set of video signals represents low quality programs, e.g., signals having a 1 Mbit/s data rate, which can be searched. The video signals in the third set of video signals correspond to signals in the first set of video signals but have a video data content that is only a fraction of that of the corresponding video signals. When all programs present at the transmitter are supplied to the receiver as lower quality, e.g., 1 Mbit/s, video signals, it is possible to search through all the programs without having to send the transmitter a control signal to implement the search and without overloading the data capacity of the channel used to provide the video signals.
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Koninklijke PTT Nederland N.V.
Kostak Victor R.
Michaelson Peter L.
Straub Michael P.
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