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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2002
John Justin Caffrey, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Norbert Joseph Rehm, Iii, Melbourne, FL (US);
Sin Hui Cheah, Carmel, IN (US);
Karl Lewis Friedline, Noblesville, IN (US);
John Justin Caffrey, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Norbert Joseph Rehm, III, Melbourne, FL (US);
Sin Hui Cheah, Carmel, IN (US);
Karl Lewis Friedline, Noblesville, IN (US);
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for providing digital quality transmission of audio and non-audio information using low cost components and arrangement. The present invention provides for the transmission of the audio and non-audio transmission by first converting the data to conform to the CD standard format and conditioning the converted signal to thereby generate a conditioned EFM signal. The conditioned EFM signal is used to frequency modulate a carrier. By converting the audio and non-audio information to conform to the CD standard format, the present method provides a low cost means of transmitting the data with error detection and correction. Another aspect of the present invention relates to embedding the non-audio information in the SUBCODE block of the data frame according to the CD standard. The non-audio information may be unrelated to the audio information, and the audio and non-audio information may be transmitted to separate devices. Another aspect of the present invention relates to controlling a voltage controlled oscillator in response to the fill level of a file buffer in the decoder.