Apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system

摘要

An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data interfaces for effectively performing a wireless network transmission process. A transmitted stream from the wireless television system may be received via wireless network processing for viewing local-area network data, wide-area network data (such as Internet data), or television data by flexibly utilizing various electronic devices such as a notepad personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a handheld TV remote control device.

主权项

1. A system to provide television programming to a remotely-located display system via a local area network, the system comprising:
a television receiver to receive and decode the television programming and to generate program information that represents the received and decoded television programming in a digital high definition television format that is suitable for display on a television; a base station configured to receive the program information in the digital high definition television format that is suitable for presentation on a television and to perform a network processing procedure in which the television programming is transcoded from the digital high definition television format that is suitable for display on a television to produce an output stream of data packets for transmission on the local area network, wherein the output stream of data packets represents the television programming as a packetized video stream that has a different bit rate that is lower than a bit rate of the digital high definition television format suitable for display on the television; and a network interface configured to transmit the output stream of data packets over the network to the remotely-located display system.