US 7,690,021 B2Granted

Combining multiple simultaneous source cinema to multiple exhibitor receivers

AssigneeThe Boeing Company

InventorsJoseph S. Ng, Robyn M. Akers, Lester A. Chew

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Abstract

An apparatus and method for combining multiple simultaneous sources to multiple exhibitor receivers in a secure manner is disclosed. An exemplary system includes a plurality of live event sites each producing and transmitting a live video source. A live event director system is used for receiving and combining each transmitted live video source in an overall transmission and transmitting the overall transmission for exhibition. A network operation center coordinates encryption of the overall transmission at the live event director system and decryption of the overall transmission by at least one authorized exhibitor site. In further embodiments, the live event sites selectively transmit high bandwidth signals to reduce bandwidth usage.

Claims26

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

(a) a plurality of live event sites each producing and transmitting a live video source in a low bandwidth signal;
(b) a live event director system configured to:
(i) receive and monitor the low bandwidth signal of each live video source from the plurality of live event sites;
(ii) control the signal transmitted by each of the plurality of live event sites and determine which of the plurality of live event sites should transmit a high bandwidth signal to be used in an overall transmission and which of the plurality of live event sites should continue to transmit the low bandwidth signal;
(iii) when a particular live video source from a particular live event site is required for the overall transmission, transmit a control signal to the particular live event site causing the particular live event site to transmit, via a satellite, a high bandwidth signal of the live video source;
and
(iv) receive the high bandwidth signal from the satellite;
and
(c) a network operation center for coordinating encryption of the overall transmission at the live event director system and decryption of the overall transmission by multiple exhibitor sites, wherein the overall transmission comprises the high bandwidth signal.

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Facts

Application: 10/360,019Filed 7 Feb 2003 · continuation in part
Priority: 29 Apr 2002
Published: US 2003/0204630 A130 Oct 2003
Granted: 30 Mar 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04N 21/4405
Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering…
H04N 7/165
Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing: centralised control of user terminal ;…
H04N 21/2187
Source of audio or video content , e.g. local disk arrays: live feed
H04N 21/2343
Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs: involving reformatting…

Family

Application60/376,240Us provisional application · filed 29 Apr 2002
Application60/376,333Us provisional application · filed 29 Apr 2002
Application10/213,396Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 6 Aug 2002
US 2003/0204850 A1Pre-grant publication · published 30 Oct 2003
US 2003/0204630 A1Published application
US 7,690,021 B2This patent

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