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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1995
Claudio Benenti, La Loggia, IT;
Antonio Cavallaro, Mathi, IT;
Paolo Destefanis, Turin, IT;
Piero Lovisolo, Turin, IT;
Abstract
The peripheral unit for multi-videoconferencing permits multi-videoconferencing while fully exploiting the characteristics of a telecommunications satellite, and can also provide the service to users not connected to the ground network. In particular, the system can connect several remote rooms through a satellite network, interfaceable with a ground control center, to provide an overall mixed ground-satellite network able to simultaneously serve both permanent and temporary users. The peripheral unit is connected on one side to the transceiving station for the satellite link and on the other to the encoder and decoder of video and audio signals, which are generated locally or received from a remote station and organized according to a protocol provided with time-slot frames and superframes.