Patent ID: 6931058
Filing Date: 2005-08-16
Classification: H03M,H04N

Abstract:
1. Method for the transmission of a first digital signal (DS 1 ) from a first location (FL) over a transport channel (TC) to one or more second locations (SL) where it is received as a second digital signal (DS 2 ) which is substantially equal to the first digital signal (DS 1 ), whereby a sample (S 1 ) of the first digital signal (DS 1 ) represented by M bits, being the total of N most significant bits (MSB) and M-N least significant bits (LSB), is transported over the transport channel (TC) as a transport sample comprising at least two parts, of which one part is a compressed transport sample (CTS) represented by N-C bits, N being smaller than M and C being smaller than N and larger than 0, the N-C bits being obtained through predictive coding of the N most significant bits of the sample (S the other part is a residual transport sample (RTS) represented by M-N bits, characterized in that said residual transport sample (RTS) is either equal to the M-N least significant bits (LSB) of said sample (S