Method for effectively implementing a multi-room television system
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1. An apparatus for implementing a digital base station, comprising:
- a media input subsystem coupled to said digital base station and configured to process a program source to thereby generate a processed stream;
a decompression unit of said media input subsystem, said decompression unit being configured to operate on digital program source data;
a compression unit of said media input subsystem, said compression unit being configured to generate processed video;
a communications processor coupled to said media input subsystem, said communications processor being configured to manipulate said processed stream to produce a transmitter-ready stream; and
a radio-frequency transmitter device coupled to said communications processor, said radio-frequency transmitter being configured to wirelessly transmit said transmitter-ready stream.
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Abstract
A method for effectively implementing a multi-room television system includes a digital base station that processes and combines various program sources to produce a processed stream. A communications processor then responsively transmits the processed stream as a local composite output stream to various wired and wireless display devices for flexible viewing at variable remote locations. The transmission path performance is used to determine the video encoding process, and special attention is taken to assure that all users have low-latency interactive capabilities.
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45 Claims
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1. An apparatus for implementing a digital base station, comprising:
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a media input subsystem coupled to said digital base station and configured to process a program source to thereby generate a processed stream;
a decompression unit of said media input subsystem, said decompression unit being configured to operate on digital program source data;
a compression unit of said media input subsystem, said compression unit being configured to generate processed video;
a communications processor coupled to said media input subsystem, said communications processor being configured to manipulate said processed stream to produce a transmitter-ready stream; and
a radio-frequency transmitter device coupled to said communications processor, said radio-frequency transmitter being configured to wirelessly transmit said transmitter-ready stream. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A video processing apparatus for processing program information to provide processed video stream image data to a network, comprising:
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a decompression unit, a graphics processor, and a display and overlay processor that process an input program stream to generate a modified version of visual information from said input program stream;
a compression processor that compresses a modified output of said display and overlay processor in a format that is different from a prior decompression format; and
a communications processor coupled to said video processing apparatus, said communications processor being configured to manipulate said processed video stream image data to produce a transmitter-ready stream. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. An apparatus for implementing a digital base station system, comprising:
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a media input subsystem coupled to said digital base station system, said media input subsystem being configured to process a program source to thereby generate a processed stream;
a video compression unit of said media input subsystem, said video compression unit being configured to operate on program source data in real time, with a lone frame or less of delay, to produce a wavelet transform encoded video stream including multi-resolution subbands of said program source data; and
a communications processor coupled to said media input subsystem, said communications processor-being configured to manipulate said processed stream to thereby produce a transmitter-ready stream. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. An apparatus for implementing a remote television viewing system, comprising:
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a receiving device that is coupled to a digital base station, said receiving device including a decoder that selects encoded information in a transmitted stream from said base station, said decoder processing and decoding said encoded information to produce decoded information; and
a display processor that formats said decoded information from said encoded information for display, said encoded information including an encoded video stream that includes multi-resolution subband encoded video. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method for implementing a digital base station system, comprising the steps of:
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processing a program source with a media input subsystem that includes a decoding unit configured to decode a program source bitstream;
generating a compressed bitstream with said media input subsystem that includes an encoding unit configured to compress video frames;
manipulating said compressed bitstream with a communications processor to produce a transmitter-ready stream; and
utilizing a radio-frequency transmitter to propagate said transmitter-ready stream with wireless transmission techniques. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A method for implementing a digital base station system, comprising the steps of:
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processing a program source with a media input subsystem that includes a video compression unit to generate a processed video stream, said video compression unit producing an encoded video stream that includes subbands of multi-resolution processed video; and
propagating said processed and encoded video stream to a communications processor to produce a transmitter-ready stream. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A method for wirelessly receiving and displaying a transmission propagated from a digital base station, comprising the steps of:
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receiving said transmission propagated from said digital base station by utilizing a communication subsystem;
decoding said transmission with a processing subsystem that decodes one or more subbands of a multi-resolution video stream of said transmission; and
producing a displayable output from said processing subsystem. - View Dependent Claims (45)
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