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Method and apparatus for secure transmission of video signals

US5555305A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 13, 1994
Grant dateSep 10, 1996
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Expiry dateJun 13, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N7/17327
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Video signals are sampled at 4Fsc locked onto sub-carrier phase and frequency. The active picture lines of each field are divided into 6 blocks of 47 lines and the active line periods of those lines scrambled on a block by block basis by line order shuffling. The shuffling algorithm is generated by a line shuffling permutator driven by a PRBS generator (controls 36, 38). Active line period samples for one block are written in unscrambled form into a first memory block (32) and samples from the previous block are read out in scrambled form from a second memory block (34) for transmission. The complementary process takes place in the decoder.

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