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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1997
Toshinari Hayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Junzo Okunaka, Funabashi, JP;
Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
NTT Electronics Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A digital video distribution system is disclosed which includes video terminals connected within a LAN and distributes video from a certain terminal to destination terminals, simultaneously. In this system, each transmitter terminal has an encoder that converts analog video information from a corresponding video source to digitally compressed video information. A hub are connected to the video terminals to distribute digitally compressed video information from a transmitter terminal to multiple destination (receiver) terminals in accordance with a multicast communication protocol. Each of the receiver terminals has an address filter for selecting a packet from among multicast communication packets that has a desired source address as valid video information. The receiver further has a decoder for converting digitally encoded information received as valid to original analog video information with expansion.