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US 6,636,271 B1Granted
Apparatus and method for playing back a recorded video signal in a time compressed manner
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorMagdy Megeid
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AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorMagdy Megeid
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A signal processing method and apparatus provides a capability of storing a portion of an input signal representing a received program and accessing the stored information to provide a signal component representing a time-compressed version of the portion of the program during a playback mode of operation. When viewed, the time-compressed signal produced during playback provides the portion of the program in a fraction of the original time duration of the portion of the program. Playback occurs at a rate faster than the rate at which new data is stored and, as a result, there will be point in time at which the “past” signal produced during playback and the received signal, or original input video signal, coincide in time. This point in time is detected and the output signal is automatically switched back to the received program signal.
A method of processing a received video signal representing a video program, comprising the steps of:
Apparatus for processing a received video signal representing a video program, comprising:
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