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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2000
Paul Wallace Lyons, New Egypt, NJ (US);
Alfonse Anthony Acampora, Staten Island, NY (US);
John Prickett Beltz, Willingboro, NJ (US);
Victor Vincent D'Alessandro, Berkley Heights, NJ (US);
Clifford Arthur Pecota, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A device and method for utilizing a single clock signal to generate a digital data stream signal for transmission in a compressed domain transmission system. The device includes a plurality of packetized elementary stream encoders electronically coupled to a transport stream encoder electronically coupled to an output interface adapted to generate the digital data stream signal. The method includes: operating each of the packetized elementary stream encoders responsively to the single clock sequence to generate a plurality of packetized elementary stream signals; operating the transport stream encoder responsively to the single clock signal to form a transport stream signal from the plurality of packetized elementary stream signals, wherein the transport stream signal includes a plurality of data packets each formed using the transport stream encoder and select ones of the plurality of data packets formed by the transport stream encoder include synchronization data; and, operating the output interface responsively to the single clock reference to output the digital data stream signal in compliance with an predefined manner.