New set-top box for interactive visual communication of home entertainment using MPEG-2 full-duplex codec LSI

Author

Inamori, Minoru ; Iwasaki, Hiroe ; Onishi, Takayuki ; Ikeda, Mitsuo ; Naganuma, Jiro ; Yashima, Yoshiyuki

Author_Institution

NTT Cyber Space Labs., NTT Corp., Kanagawa, Japan

fYear

2005

fDate

8-12 Jan. 2005

Firstpage

335

Lastpage

336

Abstract

The paper describes a new interactive visual communication set-top box for home entertainment exploiting a single-chip MPEG-2 codec LSI. The set-top box has been designed to achieve recent audio-visual compression technologies for consumer applications, especially very-low-delay and robust-error-tolerant ones dedicated to interactive visual communication. This set-top box, combined with a home television set, provides standard-TV-quality bidirectional video transmission via a commercially available FTTH-based IP broadband network.

Keywords

IP networks; audio coding; broadband networks; delays; entertainment; interactive television; large scale integration; optical fibre subscriber loops; video codecs; video coding; visual communication; FTTH network; IP network; MPEG-2 full-duplex codec LSI; audio-visual compression technologies; bidirectional video transmission; broadband network; home entertainment; home television set; interactive visual communication; set-top box; single-chip MPEG-2 codec LSI; Bidirectional control; Broadband communication; Codecs; HDTV; Large scale integration; Robustness; TV; Transform coding; Video compression; Visual communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2005. ICCE. 2005 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8838-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2005.1429854

Filename

1429854