Quotables
"I watched his countenance closely, to see if he was not deranged ... and I was assured by other senators after he left the room that they had no confidence in it."
U.S. Senator Smith of Indiana ; After seeing Samuel Morse demonstrate the telegraph.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6731825 | Apparatus and method for producing images using digitally stored dynamic background sets A method and apparatus for providing a composite of stored dynamic background activities with newly filmed or captured live foreground activities, thereby providing a real-time and on-site guide to actors and directors. ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6356212 | Single clock reference for compressed domain processing systems A device and method for utilizing a single clock signal to generate a digital data stream signal for transmission in a compressed domain transmission system. The device includes a plurality of packetized elementary stream encoders electronically coupled t... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6330286 | Flow control, latency control, and bitrate conversions in a timing correction and frame synchronization apparatus In a compressed domain digital communications system, a method for reducing a variable latency associated with a buffer and at least partially resulting from at least one splice between a FROM bitstream and a TO bitstream each including data corresponding... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6266384 | Method and apparatus for time base recovery and processing An apparatus and method for receiving a bitstream containing timing information and respective program information, the program information is processed and associated with locally generated timing information to form an output bitstream, the locally gene... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6101195 | Timing correction method and apparatus An apparatus and method for receiving an information stream comprising a plurality of timing portions and associated payload portions, decoding each timing portion, determining a duration parameter of a payload portion associated with the decoded timing p... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6081650 | Transport processor interface and video recorder/playback apparatus in a field structured datastream suitable for conveying television information A transmitted high definition television signal is represented by a packetized datastream configured as a sequence of data fields (FIG. 1) with a non-uniform data rate due to unequal inter-data overhead information intervals. Each data field is prefaced b... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6061399 | Method and apparatus for information stream frame synchronization A timing synchronization method and apparatus for processing a compressed information stream comprising a plurality of information segments representative of a sequence of information frames. Information segments representative of information frames are d... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5903324 | Transport processor interface for a digital television system A transmitted high definition television signal is represented by a packetized datastream configured as a sequence of data fields with a non-uniform data rate due to different types of different duration non-data overhead information. Each data field is p... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5847779 | Synchronizing a packetized digital datastream to an output processor in a television signal processing system A system of the present invention addresses the difficulty of aligning a reference sync byte at the beginning of a data packet during situations where the system experiences severe problems such as arbitrary resets/restarts or transmission disturbances. S... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5831690 | Apparatus for formatting a packetized digital datastream suitable for conveying television information A transmission processor (16) receives an input packetized datastream (FIGS. 6-9; FIGS. 15-18 signal A) containing packets of data bytes including MPEG coded video information. The transmission processor outputs a symbol datastream (FIGS. 15-18 signal F) ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5796743 | Data word indicator in a system for assembling transport data packets In a digital television signal processing system, a special codeword, a Packet Alignment Flag (PAF), is inserted into an MPEG codeword bitstream to signify the presence of a Group of Pictures (GOP). The PAF immediately precedes a Picture Start codeword fo... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5784110 | Data processor for assembling transport data packets In a digital television signal processing system, a special codeword, a Packet Alignment Flag (PAF (14), is inserted into an MPEG codeword bitstream to signify the presence of a Group of Pictures (GOP). The PAF immediately precedes a Picture Start codewor... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5767912 | Datastream packet alignment indicator in a system for assembling transport data packets In a digital television signal processing system, a special codeword, a Packet Alignment Flag (PAF), is inserted into an MPEG codeword bitstream to signify the presence of a Group of Pictures (GOP). The PAF immediately precedes a Picture Start codeword fo... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5729292 | Optimizing performance in a packet slot priority packet transport system A method is disclosed for optimizing the operation of a packet transport system generating a packet stream carrying a plurality of component signals, and includes the following steps. First the packet stream is partitioned into successive groups, each gro... | 03/17/1998 |
