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Scramble system for use in digital video signal recording and reproducing system or transmission and receiving system, comprising scramble apparatus and descramble apparatus

US5546461A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 8, 1994
Grant dateAug 13, 1996
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Expiry dateApr 8, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N7/1675
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A scramble system of the present invention including a scramble apparatus and a descramble apparatus is applied to a recording and reproducing system or a transmission and receiving system wherein a frame of a digital video signal composed of a plurality of frames is divided into a plurality of predetermined fundamental video blocks corresponding to recording and reproducing processes. Either one of the recording and reproducing system and the transmission and receiving system executes a reconstruction process such as an interpolation process, a high speed playback process or the like. The scramble apparatus executes a scramble process on the inputted digital video signal in the identical processing manner using the fundamental video blocks in the identical position in each of the frames and generates a scrambled video signal, while the descramble apparatus effects reverse conversion of the scramble process executed by the scramble apparatus using the fundamental video blocks on the scrambled video signal generated by the scramble apparatus.

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