38 results about "Digital television transition" patented technology

The present invention relates to a Vestigial Side Band (VSB) Digital Television (DTV) in agreement with the DTV standards (A / 53) of the Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC), and to a method thereof. More particularly, it provides 4-VSB DTV transceiver that improves reception performance of a receiver by transmitting and receiving dual streams formed of normal data and robust data without increasing average power, regardless of a mixing ratio of the normal and robust data. The 4-VSB DTV transceiver of the present research includes an encoding unit for encoding the robust data to be mapped to one of two groups having 4 levels {−5, −3, 1, 7} and {−7, −1, 3, 5}.

A service depends on the location of a device. The device location is determined using DTV signals. More specifically, the device location is determined based on pseudo-ranges between the device and a plurality of digital television (DTV) transmitters and the pseudo-ranges are determined based on broadcast DTV signals received by the device from the DTV transmitters. Examples of DTV signals include the American Television Standards Committee (ATSC) signals, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T) signals and the Japanese Integrated Service Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) signals.

A system for the end-to-end delivery of digital television signals. In a preferred embodiment a digital television signal is: received from production equipment, typically in HD format at approximately 1.4 gigabits per second (Gbps); the received signal is transmitted to a venue point-of-presence; converted for transmission via a 270 Mbps local loop; transmitted to a fiber network point of presence / video service edge; packetized into TCP / IP packets in a video gateway; and routed to one or more destination addresses via the fiber network; received at one or more video service edge destinations; converted to a digital television format, typically SDI; and either transmitted via a second 270 Mbps local loop for delivery to a customer site and subsequent conversion to a 1.4 Gbps HD signal, or converted directly to a 1.4 Gbs HD signal at the receiving video service edge.

A method for avoiding switch-over delays when changing channels in digital television transmission systems is based on a television transmission system in which a plurality of channels (K1, . . . , Kn) are transmitted in time-division-multiplexed fashion in a data stream (5). An overview channel comprising television picture information items from a plurality of the transmitted channels is provided at the transmitting end. The overview channel is decoded in the television receiver, and the picture information items of the selected channel that are provided in the overview channel are represented while changing channels.

A method and apparatus is provided for the delivery of digital television and interactive broadband service in a manner that maximizes the useage of the digital broadcast spectrum. A digital television signal is transmitted to a given broadcast area in a relatively small part (for example, a 1 MHz band) of one or more licensed portions of the digital broadcast spectrum. Interactive broadband service is delivered within at least a portion of the same broadcast area covered by the broadcast digital television signal, in the remainder (for example, a 5 MHz band) of an unused part of the same licensed portion of the digital broadcast spectrum as is occupied by the digital television signal, or within an unlicensed (unused) portion of the digital broadcast spectrum. The broadcasting of the digital television and delivery the interactive broadband service occur simultaneously. In one embodiment, digital television and broadband service are delivered by the same equipment within the same bandwidth.

The invention discloses a digital television timing charging and copyright protecting method based on watermarks. The digital television timing charging and copyright protecting method comprises the following steps: 1) recording the starting time that a user watches a digital television and the program information; 2) reading a PDK (PERL Development Kit) in a smart card by virtue of a bidirectional set top box, enabling the PDK to generate watermark signals, and carrying out the error correction of coding on the watermark signals; 3) enabling the watermark signals processed by the error correction of coding through a decoder at the time of decoding into the middle-low frequency DCT coefficients of an I frame luminance component after the I frame is researched, and then outputting and playing the middle-low frequency DCT coefficients; 4) billing the digital television by hours through a user management system; 5) extracting watermarks of suspended illegal videos when the suspended illegal videos are played in the program of the digital television, and determining the copyright by utilizing the extracted watermark signals, and further judging the user illegally spreading programs of the digital television. The digital television timing charging and copyright protecting method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of novel and reasonable design, simplicity in operation, low cost, high accuracy in timing charging, and high popularization and application value, and also has the advantage that the source of the copyright infringement can be tracked. The digital television timing charging and copyright protecting method is suitable for the popularization and development of the digital television.

The invention relates to a frequency agile system for co-frequency forwarding of a digital television, which mainly comprises a donor antenna, a frequency agile host machine, a digital television power amplifier and a retransmitting antenna, wherein the donor antenna for receiving a digital television signal derived from a main transmitting station is connected with the input end of the frequencyagile host machine by a coaxial cable; the digital television power amplifier for power amplification is connected with the output end of the frequency agile host machine by a coaxial cable; and the retransmitting antenna for transmitting a digital television signal is connected with the output end of the digital television power amplifier by a coaxial cable. The invention has the advantage of being suitable for different frequency bands and different output power of the c-frequency forwarding of the digital television. The use performance is favorable, the quality of the digital television signal and the signal coverage of a blind area can be ensured, and the digital television signal is enabled to forwards extend continuously; and a working channel of the frequency agile system can be configured by software according to the requirement of practical engineering application without waiting and restarting and is speedy and convenient.

The invention discloses a hotel digital television value added service interaction system, which comprises a video server, a hotel management software interface machine, a system management server, a network switch, an internet protocol quadrature amplitude modulation (IPQAM) modulator, a satellite antenna, a satellite receiver, a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) modulator, a mixer, a data link switching client access protocol (DCAP) and a client. In the hotel digital television value added service interaction system, video on-demand, digital television reception and interaction control are subjected to centralized processing in the system server by a video on-demand module, a digital television reception module and an interaction control module, the interaction control module is seamlessly arranged on the basis of supporting video on-demand and digital television reception, so that the hotel system can form value added service interaction with the client, and the specified requirements of different clients are met.

A digital television translator includes a digital television receiver for receiving a first digital television signal at a first frequency and generating a digital transport stream from the first digital television signal. The digital transport stream can include original Program and System Information (PSIP) data having RX channel data that is indicative of the first frequency, the first major channel number, and / or the first minor channel number. The digital television translator also includes a PSIP update module for updating the original PSIP data in the digital transport stream by replacing the RX channel data with TX channel data. The TX data is indicative of a second frequency, a second major channel number, and / or a second minor channel number. The digital television translator further includes a digital television modulator for converting the digital transport stream having the updated PSIP data into a second digital television signal at the second frequency, where the second frequency can be the same or different from the first frequency.