At&t Bell Laboratories

Robert L Schmidt

Barin Geoffry Haskell

Kai Y Eng

Pat L Gordon

The bandwidth required for a regularly occurring signal such as a television signal, as received from a signal source can be substantially reduced by not transmitting each and every one of the horizontal scan lines. Rather, firstly, one or more selected lines may be transmitted and, secondly, instead of transmitting the remaining, unselected lines, a signal representing a predetermined arithmetic difference among predetermined ones of the scan lines may be transmitted.

Signal processor (system) for reducing bandwidth and for multiplexing a

The present invention relates to a Time Compression Multiplexing (TCM) technique for transmitting three consecutive television picture signals from a television picture source during the time period normally used to send one television picture signal. More particularly, three consecutive lines or fields from a TV signal source are compressed into an ordinary line or field period, respectively, by sending one line or field as is, but time compressed, in one portion of a line or field period and sending two other lines or fields as differential signals, also time compressed, to occupy two separate and different portions of the same line or field period as is used by the first one line or field. With such technique it is possible to send three consecutive line or field signals from each of three separate colocated or non-colocated TV sources on a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) basis.

Technique for the time compression multiplexing of three television

The present invention relates to a technique for the Time-Frequency-Multiplexing (TFM) of three television signals. More particularly, three fields of a TV signal are sent simultaneously to a remote receiver by transmitting one field as is in the baseband of a standard television system signal while the other two fields are transmitted as differential signals, quadrature amplitude modulated onto a subcarrier frequency above baseband. The two differential signals can comprise two field differential signals or a frame and a field differential signal. Arrangements are also provided for transmitters and receivers for implementing the present technique.

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