PC-based personal video recorder

Details PC-based personal video recorder PC-based personal video recorder

2002-05-20

2009-12-15

Tran, Thai (Department: 2621)

Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing

Local trick play processing

With randomly accessible medium

C713S190000, C380S217000, C380S277000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07634171

ABSTRACT:
A PC-based personal video recorder (PVR) system enables recordation of video content on a general-purpose computer in a way that the computer is unable to perceptively display the recorded content, but is able to playback and distribute the content to a decoder box (e.g., set-top box) for display on a television. In one implementation, the general-purpose computer is equipped with a personal video recorder (PVR) card having a video tuner, a network connection, and scrambling capabilities. The PVR card is configured to receive video content and produce compressed digital video. The card scrambles the video content and stores it in the computer's memory. The scrambled video content is in a form that cannot be perceptibly displayed by the computer. During playback, the PVR card retrieves the scrambled video content from the memory, descrambles it, and outputs the video content to the decoder box for playback on the television.

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