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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2011
Eyal Farkash, Raanana, IL;
Eliphaz Hibshoosh, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Oded Tirza, Har Adar, IL;
Len Sundy, Ramat Beit Shemesh, IL;
Yair Mirsky, Jerusalem, IL;
Eyal Farkash, Raanana, IL;
Eliphaz Hibshoosh, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Oded Tirza, Har Adar, IL;
Len Sundy, Ramat Beit Shemesh, IL;
Yair Mirsky, Jerusalem, IL;
Cisco Technology Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A fast channel change (FFC) system including a tuner arrangement to receive at least one transport stream including an aggregated video service (AVS) and TV channels, each video frame of the AVS including some video data of each channel, a demultiplexer arrangement to demultiplex a first channel and the AVS, a FCC buffer to buffer the video frames of the AVS, a decoder arrangement to decode the first channel, a controller to instruct the decoder arrangement to switch from decoding the first channel to decoding the AVS from the FCC buffer, and a graphic engine to extract the video data of a second channel from the AVS yielding a full-screen video, and output the full-screen video to a display device, wherein the controller is operative to instruct the decoder arrangement to switch from decoding the AVS to decoding the second channel. Related apparatus and methods are also described.