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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1998
Winfried Deckelmann, Weiterstadt, DE;
Sieghard Hasenzahl, Riestadt, DE;
Winfried Deckelmann, Weiterstadt, DE;
Sieghard Hasenzahl, Riestadt, DE;
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
For a possibly flexible use of an arrangement () for mixing and/or processing one or more video signals, the arrangement () includes video hardware components () which are implemented for a dedicated purpose and, within the arrangement (), are exclusively usable for said dedicated purpose, in that the arrangement () also includes video computers () which can alternatively perform a plurality of functions and are thus usable within the arrangement () for different purposes, dependent on their need, the video hardware components () being implemented for uses which are computer-intensive and/or require a large bandwidth, the video computers () being provided for uses which can be processed in real time by the video computers (), the arrangement () accommodating a control circuit () which assigns tasks to the video computers (), dependent on their need.