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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
May. 19, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alfonse Anthony Acampora, Staten Island, NY (US);
Victor Vincent D'Alessandro, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Charles Martin Wine, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for receiving a bitstream containing timing information and respective program information, the program information is processed and associated with locally generated timing information to form an output bitstream, the locally generated timing information is synchronized to the received timing information so that the timing relationships of the received program information are preserved even after the program information is processed.