METHOD FOR EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING A MULTI-ROOM TELEVISION SYSTEM
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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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66 Claims
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46. An apparatus that provides an output stream to a display device over a network comprising a radio frequency (RF) transmission channel, the apparatus comprising:
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an input configured to receive video information comprising television programming from a program source, wherein the video information is selected responsive to control information received from the display device via the network that identifies the selected video information based upon an input received from a viewer at the display device; a processing unit configured to encode the selected video information to create a processed stream, to receive network feedback information that describes a characteristic of the network, and to adapt the encoding of the received video information based on the characteristic of the network described in the network feedback information, wherein the network feedback information comprises information about the RF transmission channel, and wherein the processing unit is configured to use the information about the RF transmission channel to adapt the encoding based on the RF transmission channel information; a communications unit configured to manipulate the processed stream to produce an output stream; and a wireless transmitter configured to transmit the output stream to the display device via the network. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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54. A method comprising the steps of:
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receiving control information from a display device via a wireless network having at least one radio frequency (RF) transmission channel, wherein the control information identifies video information selected by a viewer for presentation on the display device; responsive to the control information, receiving the video information selected by the viewer from a program source that provides television programming; encoding the received video information to create a processed stream; adjusting the encoding based on information about the wireless network; processing the processed stream to generate a transmitter-ready stream; and transmitting said transmitter-ready stream via the network. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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63. A base station configured to process program information selected by a viewer of a display system communicating with the base station over a network comprising a radio frequency (RF) transmission channel, the base station comprising:
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processing circuitry configured to receive the selected program information, to receive network feedback information describing characteristics of the RF transmission channel, to encode the program information to generate a processed stream, to adapt the encoding of the program information based on the characteristics of the RF transmission channel described in the network feedback information, and to manipulate the processed stream to produce the output stream for transmission; and a network interface configured to transmit the output stream over the network to the display system. - View Dependent Claims (64, 65, 66)
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