Patent ID: 8667178

Claim:
A transmitting apparatus adapted to obtain from a recording medium data to be played, the transmitting apparatus comprising: a compressor configured to compress the data to be played such that the compressed data has a preconfigured resolution; a baseband unit configured to output at a preconfigured outgoing transmission rate the data to be played; a transmitter configured to transmit the data to be played to a receiving apparatus; a receiver configured to receive from the receiving apparatus an incoming transmission rate that is calculated by the receiving apparatus; and a controller operatively coupled to the compressor, the baseband unit, the transmitter, and the receiver, the controller being configured to perform a first reduction of only one of the resolution and the outgoing transmission rate in response to the incoming transmission rate falling below a first threshold value, the controller being further configured to further perform a second reduction of the other of the resolution and the outgoing transmission rate in addition to the first reduction of the one of the resolution and the outgoing transmission rate in response to the incoming transmission rate further falling below a second threshold value after the incoming transmission rate falling below the first threshold value and the one of the resolution and the outgoing transmission rate being reduced, the second threshold value being smaller than the first threshold value, the first reduction being different from the second reduction, the controller being further configured to repeat to perform the first reduction of the one of the resolution and the outgoing transmission rate while the incoming transmission rate being smaller than the first threshold value and larger than the second threshold value.