Patent ID: 6961389

Claim:
Digital transmission system having a transmitter and a receiver for transmitting and receiving a digital audio signal, the digital audio signal being in the form of samples of a specific wordlength and occurring at a specific sampling rate, the transmitter comprising: input means for receiving the digital audio signal and for receiving a first information word having a relationship with the specific wordlength and a second information word having a relationship with the specific sampling rate, formatting means for combining the digital audio signal and the first and second information words into a serial datastream suitable for transmission via a transmission medium, the wordlength of the samples in the digital audio signal, expressed in number of bits, being equal to n, where n is an integer larger than zero, and the sampling rate being equal to 2 p .F s , where p is an integer larger than zero and F s is equal to a frequency value taken from a group of at least two frequency values, said group of frequency values including 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz.