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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael D Rostoker, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
John Daane, Saratoga, CA (US);
Sandeep Jaggi, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ; H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39520077 ; 39520061 ; 39520062 ; 39520064 ; 39520066 ; 36471502 ; 348 14 ; 348 17 ; 348423 ; 348384 ; 386 27 ; 386 33 ; 386 39 ; 386109 ;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing audio and video signals. The audio and video signals can be compressed and decompressed according to different standards, such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. The audio and video signals can also be compressed and decompressed at different rates. Compression rates can be varied to fit the audio and video signals into a narrow transmission bandwidth, such as an RF transmission bandwidth.