Patent ID: 7957465

Claim:
A code conversion and transmission apparatus for moving picture data, comprising: (a) first moving picture code converting and transmitting means for being supplied with compressed encoded data input thereto and outputting at least one frame of the input encoded data; (b) second to N th moving picture code converting and transmitting means, where N is an integer of 2 or more, for decoding at least a portion of the input encoded data, encoding the data obtained by the decoding, and outputting at least one frame of the encoded data thus obtained; (c) means for sending at least one of outputs from said first to N th moving picture code converting and transmitting means to first to M th transmission paths, where M is an integer of 1 or more, and (d) means for controlling outputs of said second to N th moving picture code converting and transmitting means and an output of said first moving picture code converting and transmitting means so as to be outputted with time differences, or outputted to each of said first to N th moving picture code converting and transmitting means with time differences.