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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2012
Applicants:

Andre Laframboise, Notre Dame de I'lle Perot, CA;

Marwan Al-habbal, Greenfield Park, CA;

Sebastien Michel, Terrebonne, CA;

Francois Charron, Fabreville, CA;

Inventors:

Andre Laframboise, Notre Dame de I'lle Perot, CA;

Marwan Al-Habbal, Greenfield Park, CA;

Sebastien Michel, Terrebonne, CA;

Francois Charron, Fabreville, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/418 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01); H04N 21/485 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/44 (2013.01); H04N 21/4183 (2013.01); H04N 21/436 (2013.01); H04N 21/485 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus is configured to process at least one of video data, audio data and ancillary data to generate an output for broadcast. The apparatus includes a plurality of processing components and a control engine configured to receive at least one topology from a host system, each of the at least one topology provides a grouping of the plurality of processing components to process the at least one of the video data, the audio data and the ancillary data received by the apparatus, respectively. For each of the at least one topology, the control engine is configured to determine commands for execution by the processing components on a frame-by-frame basis, to generate the commands for execution by the processing components, and to send commands to the processing components to process the data.


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