System and method for transmitting a plurality of digital services including imaging services
US5757416A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 7, 1995 |
| Grant date | May 26, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 7, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2001/0098
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A multiplex frame format for transmitting digital data in a data transmission system comprises a PACKETS portion comprising a highly error-protected region and a region having only Reed Solomon encoding as an error protection measure, the PACKETS portion including low speed data. The frame format also comprises portions for transmitting medium (AUDIO) and high speed (VIDEO) data streams following the PACKETS portion. Prior to transmission, the composed frame comprising the PACKETS, AUDIO and VIDEO portions is interleaved and the BLOCK SYNC and FRAME SYNC are added. A multiplex structure control packet word of the PACKETS portion immediately follows FRAME SYNC. Thus, the FRAME SYNC word defines where interleaving begins. A demultiplexer in concert with a microcontroller of a decoder decodes the multiplex structure control word and related PACKETS and outputs digital data streams to related output peripheral processors. The BLOCK SYNC word preferably comprises one eight bit byte and contains network signaling or other data at predetermined bit positions within the word. Moreover, the frame format is flexible and may vary in horizontal and vertical dimensions as digital service stream…
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