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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 05, 1995
Hiroshi Tezuka, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuyuki Suzaki, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This invention relates to methods and apparatus for extracting data of a channel from and for inserting low speed input data into a channel of time division bit multiplex. An optical data transmission system is used for distribution of video signals or information services. A variable frequency divider generates a timing signal by frequency dividing a clock signal by N. The resulting timing signal is phase shifted by M clock periods by inserting one cycle of 1/(N+M) frequency dividing in accordance with a synchronous command signal. With the timing signal, data of a channel is extracted from the time division multiplexed data of N channels by an extracting circuit, such as a D-type flip-flop. With a synchronous signal generated from the timing signal having the same pulse width of the multiplexed data, a low speed input data is inserted into a channel of the multiplexed data of N channels by a selector.