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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2001
Richard S. Haendel, Iowa City, IA (US);
Richard S. Haendel, Iowa City, IA (US);
Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Abstract
A method of distributing audio channels to passengers of an aircraft includes digitally encoding a multiplicity of audio channels into a corresponding multiplicity of digital audio channels. Different groups of the digital audio channels are combined into sub-channels having a data rate higher than a data rate of the digital audio channels. The sub-channels are combined into a composite data stream having a data rate higher than the data rate of the sub-channels. A first radio frequency (RF) carrier signal is modulated with the composite data stream to generate a modulated RF signal audio output. The modulated RF signal output containing a large number of audio channels is transmitted over a data network, such as a coaxial cable network, along with a multiplicity of video channel modulated RF carrier signals.