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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1997
Gerard Chauvel, Antibes, FR;
Serge Lasserre, Frejus, FR;
Mario Giani, Cagnes sur Mer, FR;
Tiemen Spits, North Richland Hills, TX (US);
Gerard Benbassat, St-Paul-de-Vence, FR;
Frank L. Laczko, Sr., Allen, TX (US);
Y. Paul Chiang, Richardson, TX (US);
Karen L. Walker, Topeka, KS (US);
Mark E. Paley, Dallas, TX (US);
Brian O. Chae, Plano, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An improved audio-visual circuit is provided that includes a transport packet parsing circuit for receiving a transport data packet stream, a CPU circuit for initializing said integrated circuit and for processing portions of said data packet stream, a ROM circuit for storing data, a RAM circuit for storing data, an audio decoder circuit for decoding audio portions of said data packet stream, a video decoder circuit for decoding video portions of said data packet stream, an NTSC/PAL encoding circuit for encoding video portions of said data packet stream, an OSD coprocessor circuit for processing OSD portions of said data packets, a traffic controller circuit moving portions of said data packet stream between portions of said integrated circuit, an extension bus interface circuit, a P1394 interface circuit, a communication coprocessors circuit, an address bus connected to said circuits, and a data bus connected to said circuits.