Digital transmission of audio signals
Abstract
A data communication system for communicating one or more payload streamed data signals and an auxiliary data signal, the auxiliary data signal being organised as one or more data packets according to a data packet protocol, each packet having a packet destination address, comprises: at least two data handling nodes, a transmitting one of the data handling nodes being arranged to transmit data to a receiving one of the data handling nodes;means associated with the transmitting node for formatting the packets of the auxiliary data signal into a streamed data signal format and for multiplexing the payload streamed data signals and the formatted auxiliary data signal into a bitstream for transmission;means associated with the receiving node for demultiplexing the input streamed data signals and the formatted auxiliary data signal and for reformatting the auxiliary data signal into packets according to the data packet protocol.

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Titles3
- German
- Digitale Übertragung von Audiosignalen
- English
- Digital transmission of audio signals
- French
- Transmission numérique des signaux audio
Classification
- CPC, 8
- G10H1/0058
- G10H2240/295
- G10H2240/301
- H04J3/0632
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- H04L1/0071
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- IPC, 9
- H04L12 413
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- H04L5 16
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- Contracting states, 28
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Switzerland
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Germany
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Spain
- Finland
- France
- United Kingdom
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Monaco
- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
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- Sweden
- Slovenia
- Slovakia
- Türkiye
- Extension states, 5
- Albania
- Croatia
- Lithuania
- Latvia
- North Macedonia