US Patent:
20130088646, Apr 11, 2013
Inventors:
Anand Anandakumar - San Diego CA, US
Serdar Yilmaz - San Diego CA, US
Chi-Foun Kuen - Vista CA, US
Ravi Aripirala - Carlsbad CA, US
International Classification:
H04N 5/455
H04N 5/44
US Classification:
348726, 348725, 348E05097, 348E05096
Abstract:
An integrated circuit may comprise a tuner operable to digitize a band of frequencies comprising a plurality of television channels, a crossbar operable to select one or more of the plurality of television channels output by the tuner, a plurality of demodulators operable to receive the selected one or more television channels from the crossbar and demodulate the selected one or more television channels to recover a plurality of transport streams, a transport module operable to multiplex the plurality of transport streams into a single packet stream, and a framer operable to: encapsulate packets of the plurality of transport streams into transport stream frames of a serial datastream, and insert filler frames into the serial datastream after every Nth transport stream frame of the serial datastream, where N is an integer.