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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2007
Applicant:
Mitch C. Jacobs, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Inventor:
Mitch C. Jacobs, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Assignee:
The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/435 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 21/2389 (2011.01); H04N 21/647 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 7/173 (2013.01); H04N 21/235 (2013.01); H04N 21/23892 (2013.01); H04N 21/64723 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for monitoring a signal includes a monitoring display and an automation system receiving the content signal and either captures an I-frame of the content signal or encodes the content signal into an MPEG signal. The automation system communicates the I-frame or MPEG encoded signal to a display.