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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2002
Shu Lin, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Donald Henry Willis, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Shu Lin, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Donald Henry Willis, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Thomson Licensing, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Abstract
A method () and system () for performing a trick mode on a video signal. The method includes the steps of receiving () a trick mode command, in response to the trick mode command, repeating () a picture in the video signal to form a trick mode video signal in which the picture contains a display indicator; setting () the display indicator of the picture being repeated to a predetermined value; and setting () the display indicators of subsequent repeated pictures of the picture being repeated to the predetermined value. In one arrangement, the trick mode can be a freeze trick mode, and the picture to be repeated can be a bidirectional predictive picture. In addition, the display indicator can be a temporal reference field having an integer value.