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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2002
Applicant:
Charles B. Dieterich, Kingston, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Charles B. Dieterich, Kingston, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A data structure, such as a digital television signal, includes (a) a video stream representing a picture and (b) auxiliary information, such as a closed caption stream. In one embodiment, the picture has an inset window representative of a reduced version of the picture properly overlaid by the auxiliary information. In another embodiment, the data structure has two or more auxiliary information streams, and the picture is used to independently test the auxiliary information processing of each of the auxiliary information streams.