Patent ID: 7712122

Claim:
An apparatus for transmitting uncompressed video data across a network, comprising: a video input that receives an uncompressed video signal; a video predictive coding module coupled to the video input, wherein the video predictive coding module performs video predictive coding on the video signal in real time to create a video predictive coded signal; wherein the predictive coding comprises: delaying a first line of the composite video signal, and subtracting a second line of the composite video signal from the first line of the composite video signal to create the video predictive coded video signal; a delay module coupled to the video input to delay a line of the uncompressed video signal; a subtraction module coupled to the delay module, wherein the subtraction module subtracts a subsequent line of the video signal from the delayed line of the video signal; and a network interface coupled to the video predictive coding module and coupled to the network, wherein the network interface transmits the video predictive coded signal across the network concurrently with the video predictive coding module performing video predictive coding in real time.