Display node for use in an audiovisual signal routing and distribution system
AssigneeJupiter Systems
InventorEric Wogsberg
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Abstract
An audiovisual signal is converted from a native format to a digital, packetized interchange format and transported between a capture node and a display node through a switch. The display node converts the audiovisual signal from the interchange format to a displayable format and causes display of the audiovisual signal. The use of a switch for video routing and distribution allows one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many distribution. The use of a device-independent interchange format allows concurrent distribution of multiple heterogeneous audiovisual signals.
Claims60
A video display node for use in a video signal distribution system, the node comprising:
- communications logic for receiving a video signal in an interchange format to which the video signal has been converted from a native format by a remotely located capture node;
- signal format conversion logic, which is operatively coupled to the communications logic, for converting the video signal from the interchange format to a displayable format;
- and
- display driving logic, operatively coupled to the signal format conversion logic, for causing display of the video signal by a display device
A method for displaying a video signal, the method comprising:
- receiving a video signal in an interchange format to which the video signal has been converted from a native format by a remotely located capture node;
- converting the video signal from the interchange format to a displayable format;
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- sending the video signal in the displayable format to a display device such that the display device displays the video signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.