Multiple access television

• US 5,068,733 A
• Filed: 02/19/1991
• Issued: 11/26/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ACTV, Inc. (Kudelski SA)
• Original Assignee: Richard H. Bennett
• Inventors: Bennett, Richard H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Tommy P.
• Application Number:
  US07/658,416
• Time in Patent Office: 280 Days
• Field of Search: 358/181, 358/183, 358/185, 358/186, 358/188, 358/108, 358/22, 358/86, 455/4, 455/5, 455/6
• US Class Current: 725/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/106 Receiver-side switching
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/04 Studio equipment; Interconnection of studios
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/268 Signal distribution or switching

Abstract

A novel process of broadcasting live televised programs, whereby multiple video options are made available to the viewer on existing conventional cable ready receivers and are obtainable by viewer selection.

Claims

1. A process for broadcasting live televised programs comprising:

obtaining video signals from a plurality of video cameras, each of said cameras relaying a different selected and predetermined view of a single event or production;

producing an audio signal associated with said event or production;

receiving said video signals and said audio signal in a remote studio;

transmitting for broadcast through a single combining network said audio signal and all said video signals simultaneously to a radiating antenna;

broadcasting the combined signals from said radiating antenna;

receiving said combined and broadcasted signals by a receiving antenna in communication with a cable television distribution system; and

re-transmitting said audio signal and all said video signals on a cable television distribution system where by each of a plurality of subscribers to the cable television distribution system may select any one of the video options made available by a broadcasting network.