APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING A WIRELESS TELEVISION SYSTEM

• US 20100192184A1
• Filed: 04/12/2010
• Published: 07/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sling Media Incorporated (Dish Network Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sling Media Incorporated (Dish Network Corporation)
• Inventors: Margulis, Neal
• Application Number:
  US12/758,193
• Publication Number:
  US 20100192184A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/81
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2812 describing content present in a home automation network, e.g. audio video content retrieval from the Internet G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2829 involving user profiles according to which the execution of a home appliance functionality is automatically triggered
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2838 Distribution of signals within a home automation network, e.g. involving splitting/multiplexing signals to/from different paths adaptations of television systems for transmission by electric cable for domestic distribution H04N7/106; hybrid transport H04L12/6418; home network arrangements specially adapted for distribution of digital video signals H04N7/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234309 by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 or from Quicktime to Realvideo conversion of standards in analog television systems H04N7/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440218 by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 conversion of standards in analogue television systems H04N7/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/38 Transmitter circuitry for the transmission of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/106 for domestic distribution

Abstract

An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data interfaces for effectively performing a wireless network transmission process. A transmitted stream from the wireless television system may be received via wireless network processing for viewing local-area network data, wide-area network data (such as Internet data), or television data by flexibly utilizing various electronic devices such as a notepad personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a handheld TV remote control device.

Claims

1. A base station comprising:

a subsystem processor configured to process program information generated by a program source to generate a digital processed stream;

a communications processor coupled to the subsystem processor, the communications processor configured to perform a network processing procedure on the digital processed stream to produce an output stream for transmission; and

a network interface configured to transmit the output stream over a network to a display system, the network interface selected from a group consisting of a local-area network interface and a wide-area network interface, wherein the network processing procedure depends upon a type of bus arbitration required for the network interface.

2. The base station of claim 1, wherein the communications processor is configured to receive control information from a remote display system via the network interface, and wherein the subsystem processor is configured to control the program information provided by the program source based on the control information.

3. The base station of claim 1, wherein the communications processor is configured to receive control information from a remote display system via the network interface, and wherein the subsystem processor is configured to select a different program source for providing program information responsive to receiving control information.

4. The base station of claim 1, wherein the network interface is configured to transmit the output stream over a wired connection to a wireless transmitter, and the wireless transmitter is configured to transmit the output stream to the display system at least in part over a wireless network.

5. The base station of claim 1, wherein the network comprises a local area network and wherein the network interface is a local-area network interface configured to transmit the output stream over the local-area network.

6. The base station of claim 1, wherein the network comprises a packet-switched network and wherein the network interface is configured to transmit the output stream at least in part over the packet-switched network.

7. The base station of claim 1, wherein the subsystem processor is configured to receive the program information from the program source via the Internet.

8. The base station of claim 1, wherein the base station is integrated with a program source.

9. The base station of claim 1, wherein the program source is a television.

10. The base station of claim 1, wherein the base station is integrated with a modem for receiving data.

11. The base station of claim 10 wherein the modem is configured to use the network interface to receive data.

12. The base station of claim 1, wherein the base station is integrated with the program source and with a modem for receiving data.

13. The base station of claim 1, wherein the program source is a personal computer.

14. The base station of claim 1, wherein the program source is a media server.

15. The base station of claim 1, wherein the subsystem processor is configured to receive digital audio-video data from the program source.

16. The base station of claim 1, wherein the subsystem processor is configured to process a supplemental data transmission and to provide the supplemental data transmission as the output stream to the network interface for transmission to the display system.

17. The base station of claim 16, wherein the supplemental data transmission comprises data received in a vertical blanking interval (VBI) of the program information received from the program source.

18. The base station of claim 16, wherein the supplemental data transmission comprises metadata from the program information received from the program source.

19. The base station of claim 16, wherein the supplemental data transmission comprises data received from the Internet.

20. The base station of claim 1, wherein the subsystem processor is configured to process the program information to provide the digital processed stream at least in part by compressing the program information.