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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mary Lafuze Comer, Fairmount, IN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/783 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/783 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for reproducing a digitally encoded signal. The apparatus comprises a decoding means for decoding the digitally encoded signal to form a specific picture. A memory means is coupled to the decoding means for storing the specific picture. A control means is controllably coupled to the memory means, wherein a first mode the control means controls the memory means for storing a frame of the specific picture and responsive to a second mode the control means controls the memory means for storing only one field of the specific picture.