Television – Basic receiver with additional function – Multimode
Patent
1997-03-18
1999-08-31
Kostak, Victor R.
Television
Basic receiver with additional function
Multimode
348906, 348558, 348426, 348465, H04N 546
Patent
active
059460520
ABSTRACT:
A receiver system automatically adaptively tunes to broadcast signals that are variable in the number of channels that are transmitted, their signal coding type and their modulation format. A system receives a digital bitstream representing video information encoded in one of a plurality of different formats, and transmitted on one of a plurality of transmission channels. The system includes a processor for identifying and capturing program guide information including a plurality of channel maps. A channel map associates a transmission channel with a video channel output and the channel map is also associated with an encoding format. The system also includes an adaptive decoder for decoding the bitstream to provide the video channel output in response to the program guide information.
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Ozkan Mehmet Kemal
Ramaswamy Kumar
Stewart John Sidney
Burke Alexander J.
Kostak Victor R.
Kurdyla Ronald H.
Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc.
Tripoli Joseph S.
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