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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:
Sep. 01, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
James T Patterson, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Samsung Information Systems America, San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348473 ; 348468 ; 348423 ;
Abstract
An arrangement and method for decoding an input transport signal, such as an MPEG transport signal, and inserting closed caption data presents an analog video encoder with decompressed video data and closed caption data at a single interface. This avoids polling by a microprocessor and the hardware and software expense.