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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1999
Peter Charles Eastty, Eynsham, GB;
Sony United Kingdom Limited, Weybridge, GB;
Abstract
Data transmission apparatus for multiplexing one or more channel data streams of equal, predetermined, data rate into a transmission data stream comprises: means for generating a control data stream of the same data rate as the channel data rate, in which first periodically repeating portions of the control data stream provide a synchronisation signal and second periodically repeating portions of the control data stream provide identification data specifying information about the channel data streams with reference to a predetermined ordering of the channel data streams; and means for multiplexing the control data stream with the one or more channel data streams in a cyclic pattern of equally-sized data portions so that a data portion from the control data stream is followed by data portions from each of the channel data streams according to the predetermined ordering of channel data streams.