Transmitting apparatus and method, receiving apparatus and method
US6172989A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 20, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jan 9, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 20, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N21/43632
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A transmitting apparatus and method, and a receiving apparatus and method for communicating a pack of 2,048 bytes using the digital interface in accordance with the IEEE 1394 standard. A 4-byte time stamp is added to a 2,048-byte pack of MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group)-PS (program stream) data. Also, 124 bytes of padding data is added to this pack in order that the overall byte length of data be a multiple of 16. Then the data is divided into a number of fractions which is a multiple of 2 (e.g., 32), thereby being converted into a number of data blocks equal to the number of fractions. Each data block has a byte length of a multiple of 4 (e.g., 68 bytes). A CIP header and the like are added to a predetermined number of the data blocks to form a packet.
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