Patent ID: 7751477
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A transcoder, comprising: an input that receives a first signal having a first signal type; a transcoder functional block that transforms the first signal having the first signal type thereby generating a second signal having a second signal type, wherein the transcoder functional block includes: an output that transmits the second signal having the second signal type; a microcontroller or a state machine, external to and connected to each of the satellite receiver and the modulator, that is operative to direct operation of the transcoder functional block in transforming the first signal having the first signal type thereby generating the second signal having the second signal type; wherein the first signal type includes a first modulation, a first code rate, a first symbol rate, and a first data rate; and wherein the second signal type includes a second modulation, a second code rate, a second symbol rate, and a second data rate.