US20040246372A1 - Mpeg-4 remote communication device - Google Patents

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US20040246372A1 US10/485,835 US48583504A US2004246372A1 US 20040246372 A1 US20040246372 A1 US 20040246372A1 US 48583504 A US48583504 A US 48583504A US 2004246372 A1 US2004246372 A1 US 2004246372A1
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  • a transmission means as referred to herein may also be viewed as including a portion of the touch screen display or RCU control system that when activated by a user enables or causes generation and transmission of such a message from the RCU to the STB.
  • This message from the RCU to the STB is designated herein as a “title request message”.
  • STB 20 , 22 , 24 , 26 processes the “title request message” and transmits the code of the desired object back to service provider 10 via a return channel.
  • the return channel may or may not be the same medium as the downstream channel.
  • the transmission protocol can be freely determined by the producer of STB 20 .
  • a protocol similar to a typical remote control protocol might be used, e.g., for control information, and/or other protocols such as a high-speed data network communication protocol might be used for program content and/or control information.
  • wired communications may also be used rather than, or in addition to wireless communication. If a network protocol is used, the RCU and STB may also communicate with other devices, e.g.
  • the determination at 402 is YES, that it is a transceiver interrupt, then a determination is made at 424 whether it is an internal or external object. If the determination is that the data is an internal object, then the non-MPEG data is decoded at 426 , and the internal object subroutine is invoked at 428 with a return to 402 .
  • FIG. 6 shows a simplified block diagram that represents the signal processing in RCU 104 according to aspects of the present invention. It is understood that various other components are included in the RCU to carry out different operations. However, for simplicity, the illustration of these components is omitted as being non-essential to the understanding of the present invention. It should also be noted that the IR transceiver in the RCU and the IR transceiver in the STB are optional and could be removed if RF transceivers 108 , 112 are used to send conventional control commands. Alternately, the RF transceivers can be removed if the IR transceivers used also transmit MPEG data.

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