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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:
Jun. 06, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., Norcross, GA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348478 ; 348467 ; 348468 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for manipulating and de-manipulating Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) data having any one of a plurality of formats, comprising an encoder, a transmission medium and a decoder. The encoder receives the VBI data having an original data format and manipulates the format of the VBI data into a general VBI format. This signal is transferred to the decoder where the decoder de-manipulate the general VBI format of the VBI data into the original VBI format.