Digital audio-video presentation display system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5119188
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07579238

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An audio-video presentation display system based on manipulation of digitized information is disclosed for use in an interactive communications system wherein a subscriber may select for viewing on a television screen a plurality of audio-video presentations consisting of particular sequences of selected video frames and accompanying audio information. The audio-video presentation display system is responsive to commands from a host computer which designates and prepares the presentation for playback to the television of the subscriber who has requested it. The audio-video presentation display system includes a digital mass storage subsystem which provides for digital storage of compressed video and digitized audio information, and a plurality of digital audio-video display subsystems which include mechanisms for retrieving the selected digitized information from the storage subsystem, a subsystem for expanding and reformatting the data into a format suitable for television transmission, and another subsystem for controlling the transmission of the information to the subscriber who has requested it.

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TVWORKS LLC1500 MARKET STREET C/O COMCAST CORPORATION PHILADELPHIA PA 19102

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fischer, James L Barrington, IL 5 2180
Lodberg, Allan E Byron, CA 1 298
McCalley, Karl W South Barrington, IL 11 3544
McNorgan, Richard London, CA 1 298
Wilson, Steven D Chicago, IL 16 3728

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