Sarnoff Corporation

Crystalmedia Technology, Inc.

Clifford Arthur Pecota

Christopher Ward

Gary Hughes

Xiaobing Lee

Alfonse Anthony Acampora

Paul Wallace Lyons

Robert Norman Hurst

John Prickett Beltz

Victor Vincent D'Alessandro

A method and apparatus for generating universal splice point adapters, where during a splicing operation an 'out-point splicing adapter' is used to transition from an exit stream, while an 'in-point splicing adapter' is used to transition to an entry stream.

Frame-accurate seamless splicing of information streams

A method and apparatus for effecting a seamless, frame accurate splicing of MPEG-like transport streams by constructing a transition stream or clip with portions from each stream proximate respective splice points.

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 to a transport stream encoder electronically coupled to an output interface adapted to generate the digital data stream signal. The method includes: operating each of the packetized elementary stream encoders responsively to the single clock sequence to generate a plurality of packetized elementary stream signals; operating the transport stream encoder responsively to the single clock signal to form a transport stream signal from the plurality of packetized elementary stream signals, wherein the transport stream signal includes a plurality of data packets each formed using the transport stream encoder and select ones of the plurality of data packets formed by the transport stream encoder include synchronization data; and, operating the output interface responsively to the single clock reference to output the digital data stream signal in compliance with an predefined manner.

Single clock reference for compressed domain processing systems

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Clifford Arthur Pecota