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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael L. Olson, Suwanee, GA (US);
Si Jun Huang, Suwanee, GA (US);
Assignee:
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ;
Abstract
Techniques for determining an output rate for a bit stream, the output rate being determined by applying information read from the bit stream to available bandwidths. A digital flywheel provides continuous feedback from an encoding system to a video compression engine in order to assure that the clock rates between the two remain appropriately synchronized.