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Service provider side interactive program guide encoder

  • US 20040210931A1
  • Filed: 04/15/2004
  • Published: 10/21/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1998
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus for producing a digital bitstream containing an interactive program guide for a digital information distribution system comprising:

  • means for combining, in a frame synchronized manner, background imagery with at least one video sequence and at least one graphic containing program guide information to form a composited frame sequence;

    wherein the combining step further comprises;

    means for compositing, frame-by-frame, at least one video sequence onto said background imagery to form a background sequence; and

    means for compositing a plurality of program guide graphics onto said background sequence, where a different program guide graphic is composited onto said background sequence to form a plurality of program guide frame sequences that represent individual program guide pages; and

    means for encoding the composited frame sequence to compress information therein to form a digital bitstream.

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