United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 6,067,122 Cahill, III (45) Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
US006067122A United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 6,067,122 Cahill, III (45) Date of Patent: May 23, 2000 54) HOST-BASEDANTI-GHOSTING OF 5,600,380 2/1997 Patel et al. .............................. 348/614 TELETEXT DATA BASED ON 5,619.275 4/1997 Tults ........... ... 348/468 NON-OVERSAMPLED DATA 5,627,594 5/1997 Van Gestel. 348/468 5,812.207 9/1998 Cahill .......... ... 348/465 (75) Inventor: Benjamin M. Cahill, III, Ringoes, N.J. 5,812,217 9/1998 Cahill, III ............................... 348/614 Primary Examiner John K. Peng 73 Assignee: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif. ASSistant Examiner-Linus H. Lo Attorney, Agent, or Firm Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & 21 Appl. No.: 09/066,741 Zafman LLP 22 Filed: Apr. 23, 1998 57 ABSTRACT 51 Int. C.7 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - HO)4N 5/21; HO4N 7/00 A method and apparatuS C provided for performing host 52 U.S. Cl. .......................... 348/478; 348/468; 348/466; based anti-ghosting of teletext data in a television signal 348/461; 348/614 using non-oversampled data. Teletext data is first encoded 58 Field of Search ..................................... 348/478,476, within a television Signal using multi-level error correction 348/473, 468, 466, 461, 614, 465 encoding, including the use of an inner correction code and an outer correction code. The television signal is then 56) References Cited transmitted using multiple Signal level modulation encoding, U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS while adhering to the Standard teletext timing. A remote computer System receives the television Signal containing 4,388,645 6/1983 Cox et al. ................................. 358/86 the encoded teletext data.
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