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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2011
Brant L. Candelore, Escondido, CA (US);
Henry Derovanessian, San Diego, CA (US);
Leo M. Pedlow, Jr., Ramona, CA (US);
Brant L. Candelore, Escondido, CA (US);
Henry Derovanessian, San Diego, CA (US);
Leo M. Pedlow, Jr., Ramona, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A television set-top box has a receiver receiving a digital television signal comprising: a plurality of unencrypted packets and a plurality of encrypted packets, where the encrypted packets carry data describing an active region of a video frame. A decrypter decrypts the encrypted packets. A decoder decrypted packets to produce a signal suitable for play on a television set. This abstract is not to be considered limiting since other embodiments can include more, fewer or different features than those described in this abstract.