Correction of over-the-air signals
AssigneeCable Television Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsChristopher Donley, Isaac Elliott, Thomas Williams, Belal Hamzeh
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Abstract
Correction of errors within over-the-air signaling is contemplated. The error correction may include correcting over-the-air signaling used to facilitate transmitting content, broadcast television, etc. according to error correction data transmitted separately from the over-the-air signaling. A receiver may be configured to process the over-the-air signaling according to the error correction data so as to facilitate the contemplated error correction.
Claims20
A method to improve over-the-air television signals comprising:
- determining occurrence of a reception error within a portion of over-the-air television signals being received at a receiver or a susceptibility of the portion of the over-the-air television signals being received at the receiver to the reception error;
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- facilitating creation of a correction based at least in part on error correction data being received at the receiver proximate in time and separately from the over-the-air television signals, the correction facilitating display of the portion with correction of the reception error so as to improve the over-the-air broadcast television signals.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a plurality of instructions operable with a processor of a receiver to facilitate over-the-air content signaling, the instructions being sufficient to facilitate:
- determining a reception error identified for a portion of the over-the-air content signaling following receipt at the receiver, the reception error being determined at the receiver from processing of the received over-the-air television signaling;
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- generating a correction for the reception error according to error correction data transmitted to the receiver separately from the over-the-air content signaling, the correction facilitating display of the portion with correction of the reception error and with addition of an advertisement not included within the received over-the-air television signaling.
A receiver configured to facilitate display of video frames transmitted through over-the-air broadcast television signals comprising:
- a first interface configured to continuously receive the over-the-air broadcast television signals through an antenna;
- a second interface configured to continuously receive error correction data transmitted separately from the over-the-air broadcast television signals through a wired medium;
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- a controller operable with the first and second interface to facilitate correcting errors the video frames carried within the over-the-air broadcast television signals according to the error correction data, the continuous receipt of the error correction data thereby enabling the controller to correct errors in the video frames without having to issue requests for the error correction data after determining the errors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.