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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1982
Koichi Nakagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshio Sugimori, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihide Kimata, Tokyo, JP;
Yosai Araki, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoji Arai, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
KEIO Electronic Laboratory Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A music information transmission system in which a music symbol on a music sheet is quantized into a digital signal by inputting that music symbol by using a key board. The digital signal is assembled into a packet, which is multiplexed on a blanking period of a television signal, and is transmitted over the air. At a reception side, the packet is separated from a picture signal, and is stored in a memory. A music player reads out the memory, and decodes the digital signal in the memory. The decoded signal operates the music player to play music. Thus, music information may be transmitted in a very narrow frequency band as compared with a conventional PCM system which quantizes an analog sound signal into a digital signal. The present invention is useful for instance for playing background music in a teletext or a character transmission system multiplexed with a television signal.