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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2006
Alistair John Parker, Quispamsis, CA;
Jeff Furlong, Grand Bay-Westfield, CA;
Gino Louis Dion, McKinney, TX (US);
Sean Gordon Higgins, Saint John, CA;
David Cecil Robinson, Aldbrourne, GB;
Alistair John Parker, Quispamsis, CA;
Jeff Furlong, Grand Bay-Westfield, CA;
Gino Louis Dion, McKinney, TX (US);
Sean Gordon Higgins, Saint John, CA;
David Cecil Robinson, Aldbrourne, GB;
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The PIP system enables display of a mosaic of favorite channels in a Picture-in-Picture (PIP) format to a subscriber terminal. Picture-in-Picture support is efficiently provided by sending only I-Frames of the secondary video channel to the end-user. That is, any unnecessary packets (null, B-P frames, audio, etc.) in the secondary video channel are stripped away. This method uses very little bandwidth and is STB agnostic.