IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO SWITCHING BETWEEN COMPRESSED BITSTREAMS - Patent 0951779

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EP 0 951 779 A1

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(43)	Date of publication:
	27.10.1999 Bulletin 1999/43

(21)	Application number: 97950333.0

(22)	Date of filing: 24.12.1997

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

H04N 7/ 24^{( . )}

(86)	International application number:
	PCT/GB1997/003547

(87)	International publication number:
	WO 1998/032284 (23.07.1998 Gazette 1998/29)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	DE FR GB

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Priority:

17.01.1997 GB 19970000956

(71)	Applicant: NDS LIMITED
	West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 ODQ (GB)

(72)	Inventors:
	BOCK, Alois, Martin Hampshire SO50 4PF (GB) DALLARD, Nigel, Stephen Hampshire SO50 4NW (GB)

(74)	Representative: Anderson, Angela Mary
	NDS Limited, Gamma House, Enterprise Road Chilworth, Hampshire SO16 7NS Chilworth, Hampshire SO16 7NS (GB)

(54)	IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO SWITCHING BETWEEN COMPRESSED BITSTREAMS